• hansl@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 年前

    Yes! I’ve made that comment a lot; French is easier to learn than English because you only need to learn how to pronounce syllables, while in English you have to learn every single word. It’s insane.

    • yA3xAKQMbq@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      Lol. Spoken and written French are so different they’re basically two different languages…

      • magikmw@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 年前

        As a two year Duolingo slave I can attest french is in fact 3 languages in a coat.

        There’s written french, official spoken french and then the soup everyone speaks because nobody cares about proper speech rules.

    • isthingoneventhis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      Man French was so difficult for my brain to parse. The word genders felt so silly/arbitrary that it never stuck, which is hilarious given the context of … English, but omfg did it not gel with me.

      • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 年前

        Yeah the general lack of gendered nouns is one of English’s better traits, even if most of our words are bastardized words from other languages.