English is so hard to learn that even native speakers argue over whether it's "who" or "whom"—and then just avoid the sentence altogether by saying, "That guy!"
I don’t know German and French, but I took a Spanish class and can honestly say if you give me an English word I’ve never seen and a Spanish word that I’ve never seen, I’m much more confident I’ll be able to pronounce the Spanish word correctly before the English one.
This is because with Spanish, letters have set rules on how they are pronounced, which helps prevent what we see in this video when it comes to certain English words.
The difficulty of Spanish over English, imo, comes from how many plurals there are and how their verbs will change based off your plural (ex, yo hablo “I talk”, tu hablas “you talk”, él/ella habla “he/she talks”, hablamos “we talk”, ellos hablan “they talk”) which to me was very complicated.
Are German and French the same as Spanish? Where the rules for pronunciation are more concise? Or is it like English where trying to pronounce a new word can be difficult? Did you find English to be more complicated than German and French in certain aspects? Or if you learned German and/or French before English, do you think that helped make it easier to learn English as a third language? Whereas it may have been more difficult to learn as a second language.
I know that I kind of just hit you with an essay, but I just love to learn and you seem like you’ve got a lot of first hand knowledge to share here.
Edit: from “soy” to “yo.” Thank you to the Redditor that corrected me.
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u/Admirable_Hunter_703 1d ago
English is so hard to learn that even native speakers argue over whether it's "who" or "whom"—and then just avoid the sentence altogether by saying, "That guy!"