People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?
People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?
Clarification Edit: for people who speak English natively and are learning a second language
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It's made me aware of how much I appreciate reliable consistent pronunciation in Spanish (at least compared to English). And it's given me a huge amount of sympathy for people who are learning English and trying to speak to native English speakers :)
But I wouldn't say it's shown me how broken English is. I mean, I think it's more broken than Spanish, but that could just be a comment on how much I still have to learn about Spanish :P
Same with consistent pronunciation in Indonesian - it's so much better. I feel sorry for little kids learning to read English and getting told to 'sound it out'. Sure thing, which of the five to nine sounds shall I use for the letter 'a'?
That could just be a comment on how much I still have to learn about Spanish :P
Gotten into verbal tenses yet..? 😉
But, hey, at least it doesn't have [weak pronouns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_personal_pronouns#:~:text=The weak pronouns (Catalan%3A pronoms,different element of the sentence.) as we do in Catalan... Those can be confusing even for native speakers! 😅