If English ain’t your 1st language come

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

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

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

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

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

hate the pronounciation

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

#MVGA

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

Kirako [#7]

hate the pronounciation

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

#MVGA

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

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.

Gemiknight [#10]

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.

I hate homophobes too

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

I love English

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

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)

Hades_Loves_Rb [#15]

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)

batatas chibs and a bebsi 🔥🔥🔥

Aayan [#16]

batatas chibs and a bebsi 🔥🔥🔥

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

Hades_Loves_Rb [#17]

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

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

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

Kirako [#9]

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

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.

pronunciation rules

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

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.

pronunciation is hard

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.

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.

Newmatics [#20]

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.

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

nobody___100 [#27]

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

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.

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.