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If English ain’t your 1st language come

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#1
HenBabyH

Do you fine the English language frustrating, and if so what parts of it?

I’m making this thread because I’m just curious.

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H3ENnZ
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English aint my first language but ive been learning it since when i was 7
Its frustrating because of the grammar, being different than many other languages

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cloudberry
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https://i.imgur.com/P42Fudv.png

#4
DSGFan
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Not really. Although I learned english since i was 5, so i have native proficiency

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EseemedRes1180
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I find it very annoying that english does not have a proper way to talk about family relations where as other language have a lot of different distinction

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Galactc
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It's too unique that it made relearning spanish kinda hard at times

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Kirako
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hate the pronounciation

3 "c" in "Pacific Ocean" are all pronounced differently!!

#MVGA

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Kirako
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also why "finite" and "finite" bit in "infinite" are pronounced differently? arent they reffering to the same thing? or is it coz prefix hits

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Newmatics
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Finite means "relating to something with an end," and when you add the prefix in-, meaning "not," you get infinite: having to do with something that never, ever ends.

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nobody___100
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not the meaning bro the pronunciation
which, now that i think about it - why isn't pronunciation spelled pronounciation if its other forms are pronounced and pronounce

#28
IonlywatchvcjXD
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My life is a lie. I always thought it's pronounciation not pronunciation lol.

Idk man, but what I do know is some words are better off with irregular pronunciation. The word facade [fəˈsɑːd]
would lose all it's aura if you read them as fasadee or fecat lol.

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uwukitten
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I find the different pronunciations of letters and certain words frustrating, that's about it

#10
Gemiknight
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No not anymore. I used to struggle with homophones and pronunciations as a kid but I got used to them as I grew up. Although it's a shame though since it made my Tagalog deteriorate to the point that I can't speak it fluently but I can understand what's being said.

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HenBabyH
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I hate homophobes too

#12
temi
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Not really… I speak and write English better than my mother tongue since I’ve been learning/using it for an eternity however it’s also my countries official language(so schools offices etc)…
Comparing it to learning german, English is a breeze

The xyz
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Der,die,das and those 3 also have family members that make things more complicated

#13
w1atrak
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I love English

#14
MrBlooBloom
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I'm french so I consider English to be one of the worst language artistically speaking (basically inferior to us in every aspect) but it's a pretty funny language and very convenient, also very easy to learn unlike french

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Hades_Loves_Rb
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My only beef is with some letters as they make no sense (take C for example-its only purpose is to be sometimes S and sometimes K why even have it in the first place?-maybe its because I learned Arabic first where every letter is a different sound)

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Aayan
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batatas chibs and a bebsi 🔥🔥🔥

#17
Hades_Loves_Rb
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if your wondering why we do this its because arabic doesnt have a 'P' sound so we use B instead lmao

#18
Aayan
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i know, i spent 4 years living in Arabic speaking countries lol

only other word I know is al baab 🔥🔥🔥
oh and hammam, maybe a few more

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maximumthehormone
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to me, it’s definitely the misalignment between phonetics and lexemes. english isn’t very consistent in describing the sounds in a language, which makes it somewhat arbitrary. often, the only way to know how to spell and pronounce a word is by having seen it before
it's also very rich in things like idioms and other culture specific words so knowing a wide range of vocab is pretty hard

#21
sp0rtsman
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pronunciation rules

#22
kimble
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pronunciation is frustrating. also changing the pitch of my voice mid sentence is hard cause that bs doesn't exist in finnish, so i usually come off as uninterested or bored

#23
Kaito_M8
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Only frustating because ive been learning from elementary school but im not fluent enough on speaking. I find that most people at my age here knew written and listening on english but cant speak the language fluently becasuse we lack speaking practice at school & everyday activity.

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jawn
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pronunciation is hard

#25
IonlywatchvcjXD
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The fact that I don't get many chances to speak them even though I've been learning them since 5, and when I occasionally got those chances I just fumbled them hard.

Pronounciation problem is way overblown, it's not as bad as people make it out to be, I just think that's a cool feature.

#26
bearmans
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english is my 3rd language, but i don't feel like it's frustrating. i've studied english since i was 4 or 5 so it's not that bad.
maybe the tenses? like past tense, future tense, sometimes i got confused, using the right verbs. and nouns. the gender specific ones, since bahasa barely have any in it.

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Warlordwibz
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the UK/US spelling. I first learn english from an out of school language learning program. The 3 teacher's I had were from UK/AUS/NZ..... And during school (1st grade) we had a spelling test I got a 9/10 and the incorrect word was colour. My teacher said we're doing US spelling AFTER the test. color - colour.

Move to australia (3rd grade) we had a spelling test, again got 9/10 and the incorrect word was organization. Australia follows UK spelling, and the correct word is organisation.

Got robbed of full marks 100%. English should just use 1 spelling form.

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