All languages have their colloquialisms and nonsensical grammar rules, dude... in english you don't even have to conjugate verbs like latin languages!
i hope you know what you're talking about cause portuguese, english and spanish are my 1st, 2nd and 3rd languages and i can tell you empirically that english is the easier one, you wont understand shit of portuguese if you learn from some teacher and try to talk online or live to me
I really hope you do have some study on languages and what you're saying is real knowledge further than useless patriotic common sense, if so, the debate is useless

I took 6 years of german 4 in highschool and 2 in uni, english is indeed difficult, i've met many esl students who have trouble communicating in a non-proper way,
conjugation makes languages easier as there are definitive rules for each situation

nn attacks on my country either, its not "patriotism", protip: a lot of countries have english as a main or secondary language

This post was edited by kragujevac on May 24 2013 06:48pm

yeah, i told the patriotic thing because of the sig that brought the discussion up, idc for countries, lol
still, the point was about the "difficulty" that english brings compared to spanish or vice-versa
you should speak german, ofc, but i don't understand how that adds so you can tell the difference between latin laguages and anglo saxonic ones
and what a romantic language is supposed to be?

and all of my american/english english teachers, even the ones that lived over 10 years in brazil couldnt speak some sentences properly, though i find myself the troubles that the students you mentioned have
maybe is not about a language beeing harder than the other, but to respect each language and know that culture and knowledge never is good enough

This post was edited by Tomyzin on May 24 2013 07:01pm

I love hearing non-native english speakers try to talk. It's pretty cute when it's a chick.

anything derivative from latin primarily, french, spanish, italian etc

you attacked me for not studying languages so i provided what ive learned and am not a monolinguistic person who is ethnocentric, either way even if you think english is easy does not mean others have trouble with it
this argument will go no where anyways without actual evidence

how did this thread get to the topic of the difficulty of learning english? o.O

cus raisins

you do actually realize that English is actually the hardest recorded language to learn..

^this is not just me trying to do what you do and speak complete ignorant bs that i feel the need to say..

so do us a favor and sit down relax go to bed get up and come talk about it when you are all calm.

this thread got derailed fast

id say english is pretty easy to learn if you speak another germanic language

english grammar actually makes more sense to me than swedish