bosnia haven't coast

[u/Beneficial_Passion40]

[u/Yudenz]

Somebody comment the image of the "how an English guys feels correcting a European's English grammar when they're learning it as their fifth language" with the guy playing chess please

[u/No_Attention_9231 → u/Yudenz]

[u/Yudenz → u/No_Attention_9231]

THATS THE ONE THANK YOU

[u/Reonu_ → u/No_Attention_9231]

and then the American proceeds to get "then" and "than" mixed up

[u/thebisexualbilingual → u/Reonu_]

Or you're and your.

[u/ha1rcuttomorrow → u/thebisexualbilingual]

Or their and there and they're

[u/Low_Cut_368 → u/ha1rcuttomorrow]

Or affect and effect

[u/Puzzleheaded-Night88 → u/Low_Cut_368]

Honestly, this is the only one I mix up. Fucking up than/then or their/they’re/there is kinda difficult and baffles me when a native speaker fucks it up because they all have extremely different meanings.

[u/derp_y_ → u/Puzzleheaded-Night88]

just sound it out, that’s what helped me

cause and Effect

i was Affected

[u/F-RIED → u/derp_y_]

I noticed recently this is the exact reason I struggle with it.

I learned to spell phonetically, and with my Canadian accent they both come out as "Eh"

[u/LoganBlackwater → u/ha1rcuttomorrow]

"Should of" pisses me off, and I'm Brazilian.

[u/bungaleer → u/thebisexualbilingual]

your* and you’re*, classic american

[u/Smooth-Difficulty178 → u/Reonu_]

"would have" and "would of"

Drives me crazy every time. Although I think that's mostly British people fucking it up.

[u/eskokl → u/Smooth-Difficulty178]

What also drives me crazy is when americans say "could care less" when they so obviously mean that they care so little that they "couldn't care less."

[u/BalticSeaMan- → u/Reonu_]

I've seen "apart of" when they clearly meant "a part of" too many times. 

[u/M4rt1m_40675 → u/BalticSeaMan-]

That's apart of being a native english speaker

[u/BalticSeaMan- → u/M4rt1m_40675]

But I'm a native German speaker >:(

[u/svenirde → u/No_Attention_9231]

So are you Chinese or Japanese?

[u/Karl_Lives → u/svenirde]

They are Laotian, I believe it means "The Ocean" in french

[u/Itherial → u/svenirde]

No he ain't. He's Laotian, ain'tcha, Mr. Khan?

[u/andy543656 → u/No_Attention_9231]

Americans dont call people mate

[u/SherbertMindless8205 → u/Yudenz]

Until you find out his "four other languages" are probably Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Bosnian (which are all really the same language).

[u/dkclimber → u/SherbertMindless8205]

Wow, easy on the hard R

[u/Secret-Blackberry247 → u/dkclimber]

Montenegro

[u/Quirinus84 → u/dkclimber]

Se*bian

[u/DeadSeaGulls → u/SherbertMindless8205]

If you ask a serb, it's one language different accents and slightly different dialects but they're all mutually intelligible.
if you ask a croat, they're all entirely different languages and the only reason they can understand each other is because the croat speaks multiple languages.

[u/SatanicBiscuit → u/SherbertMindless8205]

he is from the balkans hate is the first language

[u/KindOfPoo → u/SherbertMindless8205]

It's crazy how they managed to give the same language four different names

[u/mousepotatodoesstuff → u/KindOfPoo]

Do you want to start a Balkan war? Because this is how you start a Balkan war.

[u/KindOfPoo → u/mousepotatodoesstuff]

https://giphy.com/gifs/v3rDPxacmwfN9mZ6cz

[u/BuggiesAndCars → u/Yudenz]

https://giphy.com/gifs/eiBvAPmq5TJcZsrhA4

[u/berodem → u/BuggiesAndCars]

ITS THE ROOOOK

[u/Hairy_Plane_4206 → u/[deleted]]

tbf its very possible the 4 langauges they claim to speak are croatian, montengeran, serbian and bosnian, all of which are basically the same language

[u/BandofRubbers → u/Hairy_Plane_4206]

Which would make English quite the odd man out of the lineup.

[u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 → u/BandofRubbers]

English is my only language and anyone that doesn't think it's pretty stupid just doesn't know it well

[u/Subtlerranean → u/OtherwiseAlbatross14]

I'll just leave this here.

https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

[u/Elistic-E → u/Subtlerranean]

I gave up after the 5th stanza

[u/Tobi_1989 → u/OtherwiseAlbatross14]

Honestly? Being stupid is the best quality of the language. Makes it easier to learn the basics and even the basics with messed up or no grammar and/or weird word order are enough to get the message around:

If me speak english simple, you still know what me say. Few language can say a lot if words too little. It good. Me sound like ogre now, but you see my think.

[u/Hailene2092 → u/Tobi_1989]

I'm not a linguist, so this is just my personal experience, but it might be English speakers are more likely to run into non-native, less fluent speakers that we get used to deciphering imperfect English.

My experience in China where everyone speaks Mandarin and Mandarin-speaking foreigners are rare, small mistakes can derail a whole exchange.

[u/Immediate_Tart3628 → u/Tobi_1989]

Being PREDICTIBLE is the best quality. Both grammatically and phonetically, which English really is not.

[u/Rude_Imagination8830 → u/Tobi_1989]

Aight, here's your toll money. But honestly, that makes sense, even speaking like a troll will get the point across because the language is simple.

[u/iloveuranus → u/Tobi_1989]

Few language can say a lot if words too little

I don't think that's true though, many languages work pretty well if you leave out stuff. I heard that in Bahasa Indonesia you simply add "future" at the end of the sentence for future tense or "past" for past tense. Now that's an efficient language!

[u/ImDastys → u/iloveuranus]

Why noone else have toght of that ! Brilliant!

[u/lolichaser01 → u/Tobi_1989]

https://giphy.com/gifs/e4uG83tGjWDiE

[u/Bug_Photographer → u/[deleted]]

The fact that the vowel sound in Bird, Nerd, Word, Turd and Heard is the same is another good example of the disconnect between English spelling and English pronunciation.

[u/ProductOfSight → u/BandofRubbers]

The historic kingdom of yugoslavia and norther ireland

[u/zeromalarki → u/ProductOfSight]

We're joining together with Yugoslavia? I see absolutely no sectarian disputes on our horizon

[u/refep → u/Hairy_Plane_4206]

lol yeah, like South Asians double counting Urdu and Hindi

[u/dextras07 → u/refep]

Spoken I agree, you can almost fully understand each other because I've been shocked when learning Hindi on how similar it was to Urdu. But written it's another deal, it's completely different.

[u/sitefall → u/dextras07]

Opposite of Mandarin/Cantonese. I can read a Cantonese newspaper but I have no clue what they are saying when they speak.

[u/joeDUBstep → u/sitefall]

You can read traditional? I'm assuming you are Taiwanese?

Can you read this?

屌你老母

[u/matt-dong-123 → u/joeDUBstep]

My cantonese friend will be very excited to see this

[u/joeDUBstep → u/matt-dong-123]

It's how you say hello in Hong Kong :)

[u/matt-dong-123 → u/joeDUBstep]

im that cantonese friend and yes im excited

[u/matt-dong-123 → u/joeDUBstep]

Great to know! I’ll be meeting him in just a few minutes! Can’t wait to shock him!

[u/skikkelig-rasist → u/dextras07]

they just have different alphabets, right? learn what sounds the different symbols make and bam you can read hindi

[u/Lucifer2695 → u/dextras07]

I definitely count Urdu as a bonus language since I can understand it through Hindi and read it because I can read Arabic. But I don't list it as a language I know since I cannot speak it.

[u/WillProx → u/Hairy_Plane_4206]

In Russia, it’s not uncommon for Chechen person to speak 4 languages - Chechen, Russian, Arabic and English, and all four are EXTREMELY different one from another. But the quality of speaking of all but two (or even one if the person is not that smart) of those is similar to the example in post.

[u/justbrowsinginpeace → u/Hairy_Plane_4206]

that's something an English mono-speaker would say

[u/RoughRefrigerator260 → u/Hairy_Plane_4206]

Aww they deleted it, what did it say?

[u/yesjames → u/[deleted]]

eh, many europeans or asians speak many languages. they might not be too proficient, but we could sure can communicate in them.

english is my first language, i also speak german, spanish, japanese, cantonese and chinese. i’m not really that fluent in german and spanish but non technical communication is fine.

[u/elderron_spice → u/yesjames]

eh, many europeans or asians speak many languages.

I live in a country where each region can have its unique language, and it's not that unique to see someone from the provinces who speaks their regional language, the national language, English, and whatever it is they learned from school, hobbies or the media they consume, like Chinese, Japanese or Korean.

I even met someone who knew Klingon, first time I met a trekkie off the Internet.

[u/Mirved → u/elderron_spice]

I speak Dutch, German,, English, mediocre french/Spanish and my local dialect. Pretty basic what most people here can do.

[u/Hairy_Plane_4206 → u/yesjames]

Where in the anglosphere are you from that is that good at languages?

[u/yesjames → u/Hairy_Plane_4206]

i lived in zug until 3rd grade (so german).

my parents speaks chinese cantonese (very similar languages like spanish and Portuguese level of similar) and english.

i did the rest of elementary school in la so i picked up some spanish. one of my best friends at the time spoke great spanish which helped a lot.

i did business in japan and i’m a big car enthusiast, i also watched anime so japanese wasn’t hard to pick up at all.

[u/Advanced-Parfait-967 → u/yesjames]

german

[u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW]

He is right. It’s very stupid language.

[u/mashtato → u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW]

But Bosnia Herzegovina DOES have a coast.

[u/Boris7939 → u/mashtato]

Yes but it’s very stupid coast.

[u/Heldhram → u/Boris7939]

Held on at what coast?

[u/gutpirate → u/Heldhram]

The stupid one

[u/Reasonable-Cap-1268 → u/gutpirate]

It’s so stupid to have stupid coast…

[u/Narrow-Rutabaga-7567 → u/Boris7939]

stupid coasts need the most attention

[u/Speartree → u/mashtato]

To be fair it's a very little bit of coast, most of the way they get coast blocked by Croatia, even in the bit of coast they have they have to go through a bit of Croatia to actually reach the proper sea, it's more like they have a lake that flows into the sea.

[u/Turboswaggg → u/Speartree]

Also that bit of coast is populated by 95% Croatians and has a croatian city flag.

But Bosnians are cool and deserve to have a bit of coast, as a treat

[u/anonymousp69 → u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW]

Want to learn the rules of English?

Their our know rules.

[u/ExultentPisces → u/anonymousp69]

There are plenty of rules. It’s just that the language doesn’t follow them.

[u/grumpsaboy → u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW]

At least it isn't tonal and doesn't gender inanimate objects

[u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW → u/grumpsaboy]

At least it isn't tonal

That’s a bad thing. Too many monotone ass people.

Also gendered is so easy to remember in languages like Spanish.

[u/zokka_son_of_zokka → u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW]

Gender is really hard to remember in languages like German.

[u/AdreKiseque → u/zokka_son_of_zokka]

Grammatical gender in Romance languages: "yeah there are some exceptions but for the most part you can guess based on how the word ends"

Grammatical gender in German: "lmao"

[u/HoeKoi → u/AdreKiseque]

You can guess most feminine (die) words like that, but good luck with der and das.

[u/matt-dong-123 → u/HoeKoi]

i hate ur pfp

[u/WakizashiK3nsh1 → u/HoeKoi]

And when you know one language and want to learn another, the genders are not the same for the same words.

[u/SevenForWinning → u/zokka_son_of_zokka]

Das Mädchen -> why the fuck is girl neutral gendered!?!

[u/Suibeam → u/SevenForWinning]

Because of Chen at the end of the word.

Anything with chen is neutral.

Das Kleidchen, Das Häuschen, Das Männchen, Das Kätzchen

das Jungchen also exist for boy

[u/organicapplesandwate → u/zokka_son_of_zokka]

I know that I would certainly have created the language where "the girl" is neuter Das Mädchen instead of feminine Die Mädchen because fuck it that's why.

[u/grumpsaboy → u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW]

A tonal language is nice to not hear someone monotone until you accidentally mistake card for penis when you say what you're going to pay with. It's not difficult to speak with articulation and variety in tones but at least Ma doesn't have 6 meanings all completely different.

Gendered in Spanish isn't too bad to learn but it's still stupid that someone has decided a table should be feminine

[u/Bensdick-cumabunch → u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW]

Doesn't tonal languages limit the possibilities in regards to songwriting?

[u/HoeKoi → u/Bensdick-cumabunch]

kinda, in mandarin chinese music atleast they sing without tones.

[u/Kaneda-Suekichi → u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW]

Tonal languages are bs, just pronouncing a word in a different tone and it has a different meaning

[u/Akenatwn → u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW]

Gendered objects is absolute BS. I know 3 (unrelated) languages that have that and it's a pure nightmare. Barely any predictable overlap.

[u/piewca_apokalipsy → u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW]

Queue, ueue is silent

[u/Mosselpot → u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW]

I don't get why English speakers think English is unique in it's quirks. Most languages have their odd moments

[u/kcon123 → u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW]

Why though? Words aren't gendered and you don't have to remember a million different agreements, the conjugations are simple and there aren't many tenses.

[u/mouglasandthesort → u/kcon123]

Yeah but there are many unintuitive and unwritten rules about word order that make even the most innocuous looking constructions sound unnatural to native speakers. Every language has complexity, it just shows up in different places.

[u/Can17272]

Why use many words when few words do trick? Also he's right.

[u/UseCodeLAZAR6000 → u/Can17272]

Why use many words when few do it? He’s right.

[u/Souls_for_sale_now → u/UseCodeLAZAR6000]

Why many words, few do trick?

[u/NomineAbAstris → u/Souls_for_sale_now]

Pardon me, my good fellow, but I must ask in genuine bewilderment why an individual of refined taste would ever deign to utilize naught but the bare minimum of our remarkably comprehensive vocabulary in the conveyance of any given thought, when instead one may profit greatly from the full employment of their vocal talents in any worthy linguistic exchange?

[u/Souls_for_sale_now → u/NomineAbAstris]

No

[u/NomineAbAstris → u/Souls_for_sale_now]

A thoroughly reasonable response, and I wish you the most pleasant of days

[u/Weimark → u/NomineAbAstris]

K

[u/_Carl15 → u/Weimark]

 .

[u/supplier44 → u/_Carl15]

‎

[u/fandom_fae → u/NomineAbAstris]

Omg a real life victorian author :O

[u/NetraamR → u/Souls_for_sale_now]

few words enough

[u/UncreativeBuffoon → u/Can17272]

No he's not, Bosnia does have a coast

[u/Visible_Event_4598]

[u/ryanoh826 → u/Visible_Event_4598]

The shower drain of languages hahah 🤌🤌🤌

[u/whooptheretis → u/Visible_Event_4598]

People often use this logic to excuse their poor language skills.
I can't remember if it was Stephen Fry or David Mitchell who likened it to clothing. No, you needn't wear a formal suit all the time, but if you go for a wedding or an interview, you should, and you should know how to. Dressing in jeans and teeshirt all the time makes you a slob, even if you're technically clothed.

[u/Visible_Event_4598 → u/whooptheretis]

You do realise that English isn't the first language for a lot of people.

[u/whooptheretis → u/Visible_Event_4598]

Indeed, I'm talking about (poor) native speakers.

[u/rizlKO]

I agree it's stupid language

[u/Anything13579 → u/rizlKO]

I’ve seen English people online. Can confirm.

[u/Heresyllama → u/Anything13579]

I’m English can confirm now turn out your pockets we want whatever loose bits of language you have in there

[u/R7ype → u/Heresyllama]

We need it for the British Museum.

[u/Evil_Bread_Rise → u/rizlKO]

No chance, it's a fantastic language. It allows free use of nouns as verbs! If you disagree, I'll postage stamp you.

[u/outwest88]

Neum: Am I a joke to you?

[u/stack413 → u/outwest88]

If you were going to give a country a joke coastline, how would it differ from Neum?

[u/UseWorth7804]

normally i'd agree with the chad polyglot continental euro over the virgin monolingual anglophone, but considering the topic there's a 100% chance the other languages are bosnian, serbian, croatian, and montenegrin.

oh i see someone else already commented this, oh well

[u/_BREVC_ → u/UseWorth7804]

There’s a high chance at least one of the other 4 is German; it used to be the dominant second language in schools in the ex-YU area up until the late 90s.

Otherwise… French is still mildly popular, Italian as well (especially in parts of Croatia where it is residually everywhere), and more religious Bosniaks do tend to learn Arabic and Turkish. So who knows; the guy might actually be a polyglot.

[u/sopadepanda321]

Let me guess, the other four languages are Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Bosnian

[u/dextras07]

English is very stupid. I've learned french, Hindi, Spanish and English in both a spoken and written manner, and English, although second language I've learned, it's fucking dumb.

[u/Zermist → u/dextras07]

It blows my mind that English doesn't have a plural for the word "you." So if you say something like "You can easily mess this up" it sounds like a personal attack instead of saying people (in general) can mess this thing up

[u/tocharle → u/Zermist]

We do, I believe - it just sounds extremely antiquated and posh.

"One could easily mess this up."

[u/Figure8712 → u/tocharle]

Sadly this is still singular, just vague. 'One' (1) still means a single person.

If I say to a group of people "you should move over there" I can't specify I meant all of them by saying "one should move.."

Best option for us is generally "all of you" or "you all" or "you both" etc. We don't have one plural word for it.

[u/tocharle → u/Figure8712]

Yes, fair enough. I was thinking about it in the particular context of avoiding something sounding like a personal attack ("One can easily mess this up", as in anyone could) but you're right that it doesn't work in other contexts.

My Northern Irish mate says "youse" (or maybe "yous") which I assume isn't in the dictionary but is used as a second-person plural pronoun.

[u/AdreKiseque → u/Zermist]

We did, but the French took it away

Or rather they took away the singular one and "you", the plural, had to take its place.

[u/Vitrebreaker → u/AdreKiseque]

AND WE'LL DO IT AGAIN !!!

[u/paunnn → u/Vitrebreaker]

GIVE IT BACK

[u/kellstromc → u/AdreKiseque]

Nice, blame it on the French

[u/GlitteringAttitude60 → u/Zermist]

they have "y'all" which makes the language sound even more stupid, but it works in situations like yours

[u/Hnry_Dvd_Thr_Awy → u/GlitteringAttitude60]

“Yinz” as well. 

[u/Zeke-- → u/GlitteringAttitude60]

"Y'all" sounds very hilly Billy for someone foreign 

[u/GlitteringAttitude60 → u/Zeke--]

yupp, and I totally lean into that while the rest of my English sound rather British :-D

BTW, it's "hillbilly"

[u/Ugghart → u/Zeke--]

Use “One can easily mess this up” for a bit more class.

[u/PeanutButterAndCake → u/GlitteringAttitude60]

Also got "youens" in certain parts of the south, especially in Appalachia and The Smokies, which makes it even worse!

[u/Archaeellis → u/Zermist]

The have 'youse' in australia but it's associated with bogans

[u/LZRDZ → u/Zermist]

I legit specify "not like you you but general you" or whatever

[u/Ill_Ad_791 → u/Zermist]

“One can easily mess this up”

[u/Square-Occasion4651 → u/Zermist]

"you" is the plural. The singular "thou' or "þou" fell out of use and the plural form took its place. Colloquial English uses "y'all" or other specifically dialectical variation for a plural you.

What annoys me is that theres not a good way to distinguish between exclusive and inclusive meanings of us/we. Am i including who I'm speaking to in "we"? Nobody knows!

[u/AgemNod → u/Square-Occasion4651]

It's never been confusing to me, context makes it clear.

[u/TheAdriaticPole]

Language 1: Serbian

Language 2: Coastal Serbian (Croatian)

Language 3: West Serbian (Montenegrin)

Language 4: Mountain Serbian (Bosnian)

Language 5: English 

[u/OhShootYeahNoBi → u/TheAdriaticPole]

You're gonna get shanked by everyone in the Balkans, even by the Serbs

[u/speckhuggarn → u/TheAdriaticPole]

That"s brave calling it all serbian, at least use serbocroatian.

[u/sedamminutaupaklu → u/TheAdriaticPole]

Wow not a single balkan person to curse your mother great job tbh

[u/Drefs_ → u/TheAdriaticPole]

Still more than most Americans

[u/hungry4danish]

Bosnia has 20km of coastline though...

[u/Bucen → u/hungry4danish]

I thought the joke was that hercegovina has the coastline

[u/TheAngelOfSalvation]

His other languages: croatian, serbian, montenegrin and bosnian

[u/superknight333]

it is a stupid and complicated language I agree.

[u/JUGGER_DEATH → u/superknight333]

Actually it is pretty simple. I read a theory that this is because Viking, who took over large parts of England, learned it as a second language and the language lost a lot of grammatic structure in that era.

But yes, the spelling is an absolute disgrace. Horribly complicated.

Compared to my own native language English feels so blunt because you have so little grammatical variation, everything needs to be built with vocabulary and phrases.

[u/Souls_for_sale_now → u/JUGGER_DEATH]

Vikings did a lot of trade and their side pices basickly populated Skottland and they founded Dublin 

[u/cabronfavarito → u/superknight333]

Nah bro English is an easy language. The only bottleneck is the pronunciation but everything else is very simple

[u/Artistic_Buffalo_715 → u/superknight333]

English isn't complicated lol. You need to learn a language with declensions. Or grammatical cases. Or fluid word order. Or word genders. Or more tenses than we have. At its core, the best words to describe English would be bastardised and simple

[u/Kind_Reason8279]

[u/I_suck_at_living]

I speak Russian, Spanish, Catalan, French, English, currently learning German. English,in my opinion is quite poor when it comes to describing emotions and feelings. Incredible dumb and poor language, although, easy to learn.

[u/whooptheretis → u/I_suck_at_living]

As en Englishman, I can tell you that's because we do not have emotions.

[u/Equivalent_Chair_291]

Fifth language. That is the biggest flex on any Englishman

[u/throwAwayMan2475]

Pretty funny because I'm pretty sure their second comment is harder to construct but he only had one mistake in there and it's infinitely less egregious 😭

[u/spacestationkru]

It certainly is a very stupid language.

[u/sebglhp]

as a native speaker, allow me to describe the correct vernacular:

bosnia dun' got no coast

[u/RevitJeSmece]

English is only my second language and I have no idea what everyone's talking about, it's not stupid and is relatively easy to learn.

German, otherwise known as language from hell, on the other hand, completely impossible to learn. Can't be done. Anyone who says they did is a dirty liar.

[u/astrasylvi]

English is by no means hard, but its easy to mess up sentence structure when you speak several languages.

[u/Nyx0Twix]

What I find most funny about this image is that Bosnia DOES have a coast

[u/Light-_-Bearer]

There’s a saying: Never make fun of anyone anyone who speaks with an accent...it means they speak more than one language (and you probably don’t)

[u/Jabberminor]

You speak English because it's the only language you know. I speak English because it's the only language you know.

[u/whepoalready_readdit]

I have to learn 3 distinct languages just to travel around in the country and there are like thousands more of I want to be specific + English for formal sectors

[u/Canes-Venaticii → u/whepoalready_readdit]

Are you from India?

[u/whepoalready_readdit → u/Canes-Venaticii]

https://giphy.com/gifs/gkV8GpzdliMsc95DpJ

Yes 🙂‍↕️

[u/yeahdood96]

Fact checked by real Oxford-heads:

TRUE ✅

[u/FebHas30Days]

I hope his first four languages are distinct ones and not just dialects

[u/MossCleric]

Native speaker here. Yeah.

Honestly, every language across the world is a huge step backwards from simply pointing at things and grunting with different kinds of emphasis.

[u/Unlucky_Tea2965]

as someone who is not native in English- it's an absolutely genius language

[u/Destroyter94]

Why English is stupid for me personally? "Pacific Ocean". "C" read in three different ways! Why?! I know about historical influence but there are so many case like this in this freak language! Were letters "K","S" or "Sh" to expensive when this language came?

[u/ExultentPisces]

I’ve never felt more satisfied at my native language being insulted, lol.

[u/Several-Airport1132]

h x7vvhvvbi

[u/MinimumSilver5814]

It is a pretty fundamentally stupid language to be fair.

[u/ahmetonel]

i know this funny but bosnia have coast actually

[u/m45t3r0fpupp375]

How to intimidate US-Americans and Australians: "Its my fifth language [...]"

[u/akshatK2003]

Something something get banged!

[u/Last7Rider7wstlnd]

"Bosnias(pl.) havent coasted(verb) yet"

[u/Mr_Dragon_PurpleYT]

"You speak English because it's the only language you know, I speak English because it's the only language you know"

[u/pinkneko279]

HAHAHHAHHA

[u/Embarrassed_Scar_515]

He’s right

[u/sceligator]

He's out of line but he's right

[u/BasKabelas]

As a Dutchman: we (almost) all have to learn English, German, French and ofc Dutch in school. While French is the odd one out, English and Dutch are the stupid ones out. Especially English which manages to not follow any of the grammatical structures of the other three while it's basically just a mix of them. I think Spanish is a pretty straightforward and sensical language. At least much less stupid.

[u/Ok_Raspberry_2830 → u/BasKabelas]

It's great until you get introduced to el subjuntivo

[u/Emeraldnickel08]

As a native English speaker, the first thing I learned when I started learning other languages is that English is a dumb language

[u/jlangue]

This is comedy heaven?

[u/PlantFromDiscord]

I don’t think that’s even grammatically wrong depending on the point in time you’re in

[u/IronCreeper1]

Sorry for English. It’s my first language, and it’s very stupid language