On Monday, 2 May 2016 at 16:22:49 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Mon, 02 May 2016 13:55:35 +0100
Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Mon, 2016-05-02 at 12:18 +0000, Claude via Digitalmars-d
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Oh FFS. And they say English is a difficult language.
LOL. Well, every language has its quirks - especially with the
commonly used words (they probably get munged the most over
time, because they get used the most), but I've found that
French is far more consistent than English - especially when
get a grammar book that actually explains things rather than
just telling you what to do. English suffers from having a lot
of different sources for its various words. It's consistent in
a lot of ways, but it's a huge mess in others - though I for
one think that the fact that English has no gender like
languages such as French and German is a huge win.
In any case, learning any new language is hard - especially the
farther it is from your own (e.g. Asian languages are going to
generally be pretty brutal to learn for someone speaking a
European languages).
- Jonathan M Davis
Many Asian languages are much more straightforward then any of
the romance languages. In Chinese verbs aren't even inflected for
tense, voice, etc., much less this silly gendered noun stuff.
It's extremely refreshing and quite simple grammatically.
