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Spanish is a lot easier to comprehend then egnlish cosnidering all garamtical weirdness. English is indeed chock full of word pollution. But english helps a lot within science to describe and label different things as well as people can. That's one of the up sides i guess.


i just wish words were spelled in english like they sound :[

You know, I had a harder time learning Spanish than I did Japanese.

To this day I can't remember any Spanish worth a damn.

I think I learned "b***h" and "Hey sexy, wanna dance?" because I knew a girl in one of my gym classes that was always teaching me stuff like that back when I was trying to learn it.

Damn, she was cute too.

I tune people out even when they're speaking in English, so I figure you can do the same with any language, really.

It's all about the art of ignoring people.

I know Hebrew, and I would say that is one of the most difficult languages, more so than English. The verb forms change based on the gender of the person you're talking to, as well as your own gender. Crazy.

I think it's really good actually that English gets so specific, I guess because I like to write. It's really nice to be able to pinpoint the words you use down to this very exact meaning. And as for not translating well? Read Mary by Nabokov, it was originally in Russian. The imagery is so intense, it just keeps coming at you. (I'm reading Lolita now, but that was written originally in English, and a topic for another day.)

Sounds like fun.

I'm really lucky my parents put me in French from grade 1. This year I decided to take up a third language, Japanese, and having the second fluent language helps so incredibly much. It probably also helps that Japanese is such a straightforward language. I still want to learn German.

Vietnamese is difficult in terms of intonations [unless you speak a language that really utilizes them, most people can't tell the difference], but grammar and conjugation are easy, especially compared to English.

If you want to say "I WILL do [something]" - you just add a word that means "will/future". Same goes for present and past - you don't have to change the verb.

Actually, Vietnamese is also difficult when it comes to second/third person. What you call someone is based on whose side of the family they're on + their age/generation/status in comparison to your parents'. Or if it's a stranger, how old they look compared to your parents, tbeir job/status, etc. Then, what you refer to your wife/husband when you're talking about them to someone else, how much you respect a certain person when you're talking about them, how intimate you are with someone, blah blah... there are a lot of fuzzy/subjective/judgamental aspects to it. And worst of all, people do get offended if you address them improperly. ;P

My mom looks young, so teens sometimes give her the "older girl/same generation" title, and she always corrects them, "older WOMAN/generation way above you."


I'm taking Japanese at the moment. :0
It's probably because I'm in the elementary level [JPN 3] but so far it's pretty straightforward compared to English. My Japanese teacher has also complained about English. [shrug]