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  • English?

    Blakes Progress.

    The blade, the scream, the youths upheaval
    becomes old Albions new evil.
    The cry of foxes in the night
    bespeaks the woes of Englands plight.

    The desert land we call a car park
    this eve behoves the devils mark.
    The running steps of deeds just done
    are footprints on a dying son.

    The breath of night that now exhales
    is a soft whisper of our fails.
    For every man must take the blame
    for saying this is but a game.
  • sCovert wrote: »
    actually, english is only easy for you since you were born in america and have learned it your whole life. Europeon countries are just now starting to learn it.
    I'm not born in America, nor do I have any special education in the English language beyond elementary.
    Granted I have a talent and interest for language, but that doesn't matter much.

    Most well-developed European nations have a long tradition of practicing English as a second language from a very early age.



    And lolno, English isn't the second hardest language to learn.
    Its very individual, especially ethnically.
    A Norse person is going to have an easy time learning Swedish, a Swede is going to learn German pretty fast. English isn't far away.

    People tend to neglect the fact that English is a European language.
    England, yadig?
  • A Deep Thought!

    English.


    A Beautiful language that thirst's toward Poetic Invention.


    A speech that is made from all universal languages and is a pinnacle of the human voice.


    Let your thoughts be poetic and your answers the same. Strive toward expression in your output, cling to the voice you hear that is of the same vein. Seek the sound that most clearly resonates in your very soul and mimic that pitch. For Imitation is the sincerest form of flatterey and practise strives toward perfection.


    I leave you with a thought?


    William Blake (1757–1827)


    TO see a world in a grain of sand,
    And a heaven in a wild flower,
    Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
    And eternity in an hour.
  • As my first language is English, I'm afraid I can't help you much. Most people don't understand the mechanics of their first language (myself included), so asking a native English speaker about things like negation won't normally get you anywhere. Asking someone who has studied English for a while, but their first language is something else, will give you the results you need.
  • English is a simple language, there's the top difficulty language like chineese,french,arabic language.

    English/Spanish/Russian and language like that are "simple" reason, less rules,less tense.

    I speak French, there's 22 tense for a verb and 3-6 noun for it. example for

    Love present tense in English

    I love
    you love
    he loves
    we love
    they love

    Love(aimer) Present tense in french

    j'aime
    tu aimes
    il aime
    nous aimons
    vous aimez
    ils aiment

    you can notice the difference.

    Btw don't try to learn English at school most of foreign country suck at teaching it, Internet is your friend to learn it, read article, watch videos, use subtitle that's all you need to get better at speaking/writing/reading/listening English.
  • Guys , if English and French seem hard to you , you should try romanian.
    Romanian nouns are characterized by gender (feminine, masculine, and neuter), and declined by number (singular and plural) and case (nominative/accusative, dative/genitive and vocative). The articles, as well as most adjectives and pronouns, agree in gender, number and case with the noun they reference.

    Romanian is the only Romance language where definite articles are en****ic: that is, attached to the end of the noun (as in North Germanic languages), instead of in front (pro****ic). They were formed, as in other Romance languages, from the Latin demonstrative pronouns.

    As in all Romance languages, Romanian verbs are highly inflected for person, number, tense, mood, voice. The usual word order in sentences is SVO (Subject - Verb - Object). Romanian has four verbal conjugations which further split into ten conjugation patterns. Verbs can be put in five moods that are inflected for the person (indicative, conditional/optative, imperative, subjunctive, and presumptive) and four impersonal moods (infinitive, gerund, supine, and participle).
  • Nephire wrote: »
    Guys , if English and French seem hard to you , you should try romanian.
    Romanian nouns are characterized by gender (feminine, masculine, and neuter), and declined by number (singular and plural) and case (nominative/accusative, dative/genitive and vocative). The articles, as well as most adjectives and pronouns, agree in gender, number and case with the noun they reference.

    Romanian is the only Romance language where definite articles are en****ic: that is, attached to the end of the noun (as in North Germanic languages), instead of in front (pro****ic). They were formed, as in other Romance languages, from the Latin demonstrative pronouns.

    As in all Romance languages, Romanian verbs are highly inflected for person, number, tense, mood, voice. The usual word order in sentences is SVO (Subject - Verb - Object). Romanian has four verbal conjugations which further split into ten conjugation patterns. Verbs can be put in five moods that are inflected for the person (indicative, conditional/optative, imperative, subjunctive, and presumptive) and four impersonal moods (infinitive, gerund, supine, and participle).


    In french there's 2 nouns 2 gender. But you mix them up to. + they are added to the verbs + the adjective + there's times where there's an exception. There's also 22 tense for a verb + the special one, you also have a particular punctuation + you must know how to accent your letter by example, Noël, Être,à. French is actually know as one of the hardest language to learn and is also getting updated EVERY F***** years and it P**** me off :P
  • Nephire wrote: »
    Guys , if English and French seem hard to you , you should try romanian.
    Romanian nouns are characterized by gender (feminine, masculine, and neuter), and declined by number (singular and plural) and case (nominative/accusative, dative/genitive and vocative). The articles, as well as most adjectives and pronouns, agree in gender, number and case with the noun they reference.

    Romanian is the only Romance language where definite articles are en****ic: that is, attached to the end of the noun (as in North Germanic languages), instead of in front (pro****ic). They were formed, as in other Romance languages, from the Latin demonstrative pronouns.

    As in all Romance languages, Romanian verbs are highly inflected for person, number, tense, mood, voice. The usual word order in sentences is SVO (Subject - Verb - Object). Romanian has four verbal conjugations which further split into ten conjugation patterns. Verbs can be put in five moods that are inflected for the person (indicative, conditional/optative, imperative, subjunctive, and presumptive) and four impersonal moods (infinitive, gerund, supine, and participle).


    Is why I return to the EAR!

    You can "Hear" and naturally understand more than you can by just reading.

    Try the Jamaican Patois in this tune and I know you will understand most.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v27-GEbvnPU


    Is why I say that you want to learn English? Then mix and talk among English speakers. Worldwide-Jamaica to Sri lanka!
  • English is a simple language, there's the top difficulty language like chineese,french,arabic language.

    English/Spanish/Russian and language like that are "simple" reason, less rules,less tense.

    I speak French, there's 22 tense for a verb and 3-6 noun for it. example for

    Love present tense in English

    I love
    you love
    he loves
    we love
    they love

    Love(aimer) Present tense in french

    j'aime
    tu aimes
    il aime
    nous aimons
    vous aimez
    ils aiment

    you can notice the difference.

    Btw don't try to learn English at school most of foreign country suck at teaching it, Internet is your friend to learn it, read article, watch videos, use subtitle that's all you need to get better at speaking/writing/reading/listening English.

    Sorry, you have mistaken. Russian is not simple language. And I said that, not because I am Russian. Because it is truth. There are a lot of transforms of words. Russian nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs are characterized by gender (female (she), male (he) and third person (it)), and are differed by number (singular and plural). There are also six cases of Russian verbs. My language is very powerful and flexible. Happens, that in English there are not method that to express something like in Russian. For example, word a "dog" in Russian is "sobaka" (собака) or "pes" (пёс) and "sobachka" (собачка) or "pesik" (пёсик) (little dog) and "sobachonka" (собачонка) or "psina" (псина) (disdainfully). In English there is not such halftones of a word. One word expresses all Russian meanings. In my opinion, English smoothes out all halftones of a word, and therefore is perverting some meanings of the word.
  • I feel the difficulty of a language is directly influenced by the students mother tongue. Someone from Spain is going to have a hell of a lot easier time learning Italian or Portuguese than say Cantonese or Russian.
  • chikatilo are you that kid smoking :(???

    What kid smoking am I? What do you mean? Do you mean my avatar? He is not me. This is joke. You may see him here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKn4OnEK98o
  • chikatilo wrote: »
    Hi guys! I am taking an interest in English. It is the interesting and difficult language. There are a lot of rules and exceptions in it. Grammar of English is crazy. There are a lot of tenses. In Russian there are only three tenses. Also there are the articles in English, but in Russian there are not it. And pronunciation in English makes me unhappy. In English anything is written in specific rules but it will be read and pronounced in another rules. Why is it? Let's talk about it. I would know something interesting from English speaking guys.

    Hehe, you think English is difficult!?

    Then you definately do not want to learn German my friend :)
  • Hehe, you think English is difficult!?

    Then you definately do not want to learn German my friend :)

    I know it, German is a difficult language.
  • English people don't know the grammar rules, we just pick up how to speak it and the grammar follows. No one really knows the rules or the tenses or anything like that, it isn't taught in schools anymore.
  • FlickshOt wrote: »
    In Soviet Russia, car drives you!

    Lol. Why do you tell it? Have you been in Soviet Russia? You should go out from here if you are going to troll me.
  • chikatilo wrote: »
    Lol. Why do you tell it? Have you been in Soviet Russia? You should go out from here if you are going to troll me.

    Taking a bad joke a bit too seriously?
    Calm down.
  • English people don't know the grammar rules, we just pick up how to speak it and the grammar follows. No one really knows the rules or the tenses or anything like that, it isn't taught in schools anymore.

    In Russia we have to learn Russian during the all time we are studing. And we learn it at school, college and also at University. We have to pass examinations several times until we complete our education. If anyone wants to continue their education in a University or in an Academy or in an Institute, they must pass some entrance examinations, and Russian is a part of this exam.
  • Taking a bad joke a bit too seriously?
    Calm down.


    I don't like stupid jokes and dumb people. They always tell about something but they don't have any knowledge about it.
  • chikatilo wrote: »
    In Russia we have to learn Russian during the all time we are studing. And we learn it at school, college and also at University. We have to pass examinations several times until we complete our education. If anyone wants to continue their education in a University or in an Academy or in an Institute, they must pass some entrance examinations, and Russian is a part of this exam.

    Yea we have English classes but it's more about analysing books, poems and stuff like that. :|
  • Hehe, you think English is difficult!?

    Then you definately do not want to learn German my friend :)
    Well, to me, German is an easy language. As is English.



    I guess I'm privileged by being Swedish.
    High quality education system and a close relation to other Germanic languages, obviously including German.
  • English is not hard, try learning portuguese, not Brazilian, REAL Portuguese, its extremely hard to know it well, im portuguese and i find it a hard language, bilions of vebs and craps like that
  • em0tioN wrote: »
    English is not hard, try learning portuguese, not Brazilian, REAL Portuguese, its extremely hard to know it well, im portuguese and i find it a hard language, bilions of vebs and craps like that

    How about some Radio Waves?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACfiRwJeFsE&NR=1

    PT2?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nACOyzPKidQ&feature=related

    PT3..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0-DKJ_GWcs&NR=1&feature=fvwp


    cos the Tide is Turning.
  • Let's listen some wonderful music. In Russia such a music is called "old school". I like it very much.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3a7JJHwiTE
  • chikatilo wrote: »
    Let's listen some wonderful music. In Russia such a music is called "old school". I like it very much.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3a7JJHwiTE

    I grew up hearing these types of sounds.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zboXNSXqOtE


    Tho I like this by your Band.
  • chikatilo wrote: »
    Sorry, you have mistaken. Russian is not simple language. And I said that, not because I am Russian. Because it is truth. There are a lot of transforms of words. Russian nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs are characterized by gender (female (she), male (he) and third person (it)), and are differed by number (singular and plural). There are also six cases of Russian verbs. My language is very powerful and flexible. Happens, that in English there are not method that to express something like in Russian. For example, word a "dog" in Russian is "sobaka" (собака) or "pes" (пёс) and "sobachka" (собачка) or "pesik" (пёсик) (little dog) and "sobachonka" (собачонка) or "psina" (псина) (disdainfully). In English there is not such halftones of a word. One word expresses all Russian meanings. In my opinion, English smoothes out all halftones of a word, and therefore is perverting some meanings of the word.


    I know what you mean but there's 3 kind of language. Complex: French,Chineese,Japaneese and all language with 100+ rules in the grammar. And the simple 99 n - rules. And that's also a third case which is the Spelling language such as thai, in thai you can read/type it easily but spelling it is very hard. that's what I meant. But learned English ain't that hard if you like manga you'll have a fun time to read it so you'll learn new words. Also listening to American or English tv-show might help you for the spelling.
  • english have many words wich u can use for many purposes. so english dictionary is easier to learn than other languages. but to build sentenses is another question *..*. i think it depends on ur mothertongue wich variaty of languages u can mind. btw i can understand english much better than to talk on it. i can speak german and russian fluently but english not.
  • Any1 who says English is Hard: Never even think of trying Arabic

    I mean it's my mother-tough and I can't master it (I'm 23 years old btw)

    English is a piece of cake!!! and without even comparing it with anything

    I speak Arabic, English, and German (very poor on that)

    my grandma tried to teach me French but I didn't like it, and I like how Spanish sounds ;)

    but among all those (languages I know and others I don't) English is the Easiest...

    btw, I used to give English lessons... so U can PM me for Help :)