holy fuck this thread
no hope

Always starts from one person getting mad,
and making a wall of nonsense text.
Never fails.

while it may be easy to learn the grammar if you already know a germanic language, learning all the idiosyncrasies and colloquial terms and how to use them properly is another thing.

For example, all of these words mean the same thing: big, huge, gargantuan, giant, humongous; however, they each carry a different colloquial meaning. Native english speakers (or very advanced non-native speakers) would be able to organize these by which is bigger, while a non-native speaker organizes them purely by the category of them all being adjectives that describe large nouns.

in brazilian portuguese (yeah, american english is not the only english) there is a fucking big variety of vocabulary and colloquial terms too
brazilians themselves cant understand to eachother when trying to speak to someone coming from a region too far away
the thing is: english is easier to learn (to be able to understand and be understood) than the languages i know
i'm in no position to argue about how hard mastering the true american english is as im still learning it, yet i'm discussing in english
but where`s my head at? im in a american forum!

i like turtles.

american tv every day since birth helps with that. we dont do voice overs in sweden like they do in other european countries

everyones gets a proper english education aswell, its mandatory



This post was edited by jewdas on May 25 2013 02:54pm