• Hegar@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    I know this is really just pointing out some amusing homonyms for laughs, but languages aren’t really harder or easier to learn. How hard or easy you find a language depends on you, the languages you know and how different the other language is.

    It’s common to hear that English is hard because English is the most common second language, so there’s are just more people who’ve tried to learn it and thus more people who’ve struggled.

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      I’ve never heard anyone saying English is hard. The only hard part of English is the pronunciation, because it doesn’t make sense, you just have to know all the words…

      It’s wide adoption has probably been helped by the ease of learning its basics.