WHY ENGLISH IS HARD TO LEARN

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We'll begin with box, the plural is boxes,
But the plural of Ox is Oxen, not Oxes.
One fowl is a goose, and two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose is never called meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a house full of mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.
The plural of man is always men,
But the plural of pan is never pen.

If I speak of foot, and you show me two feet,
And I give you a book, should a pair be a beek?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't two booths be called beeth?

If singular's this and the plural these,
Should the plural of kiss be ever called kesse?

We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we may never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his, and him,
But imagine the feminine, she, shis, and shim.
Let's not forget you drive on a parkway, and you park on a driveway....
 
My wife knows it and knows English(she's Flipino). So 3 languages.

Really? As in shes pretty much fluent in Reading and Speaking cantonese (not going to get into written Traditional Chinese since thats a whole other ball game)... but seriously, i'm not doubting it, since i know a lot of Filipinos actually living in Hong Kong for say 10+ years that can speak very basic cantonese if the put their minds to it... But tell them to actually read a local News Paper or hold a full on conversation with some one in Cantonese only and they'll fall apart...

I've met plenty of people who've tried to learn Cantonese, especially later on in life and most if not all gave up and turned to Mandarin since its literally 100X easier to learn than Cantonese due to the fact you can actually write down how a word would sound...
 
It can't be all that bad... Learning a new language is like learning basic algebra. You get you equations (sentence structure) and your answer (translation) and all you have to do is fill in the variables (vocabulary). I want to learn Latin.


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Oh, I speak three languages fluently, Spanish, English and BS...
 
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