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People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ? (lemm.ee)

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Clarification Edit: for people who speak English natively and are learning a second language

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[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Learning German taught me how messed up non-English languages are. Having to memorize if every noun is either male, female, or neuter just so you can use the right form of "the" with it is crazy.

[-] Miphera@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

As a German myself who tried to learn French a while ago, I gave up because that language has the same issue, but the genders for nouns are different and I just can't be bothered to memorize two different genders for every noun 💀

[-] Mkengine@feddit.de 1 points 4 months ago

And then you also have different meanings depending on pronunciation, here some examples:

umfahren: to drive around something or to run over something
Montage: the act of assembling or the plural of Monday
übersetzen: to ferry across a river or to translate into another language
umschreiben: to rewrite or to paraphrase
durchschauen: to look through something or to understand
unterstellen: to place something underneath or to imply or accuse someone of something
unterhalten: to hold something underneath or to support or to converse with someone or to entertain
wiederholen: to fetch something back or to repeat something

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