English takes no skill to speak.

Seriously, some of the dumbest people in the world speak it. It takes no skill to speak. Whereas other languages such as Русский, Español, Tiếng Việt, 日本語, 汉语, 한국어 and several others require skill. I'm sick of hearing this comment about how English is one of the most difficult languages in the world. It's the easiest. Anglophones are also some of the most ignorant and obnoxious people in the world.

>I'm sick of hearing this comment about how English is one of the most difficult languages in the world.

I wouldn't use the word "comment" in this context. gb2/elementary school/

This post doesn't mean to say that there aren't harder languages than English, but I disagree that it is the very easiest of all. It depends how you look at it. You talk about speaking. English has many many times more different sounds than a language like Japanese, but it'd be the other way around when talking about writing it. Does "anglophones" mean people who were born with English as their primary language? In that case we are not only talking about England, Canada, America, Australia etc., many people in Asia are also anglophones but do not posess those two traits you just described there. To be dumb and to be born with a certain language is different. Many African languages are really hard, as they have the infamous click sounds. Could you honestly say those are really intelligent and well informed? No offense meant, I just beg to differ.

>>1
If English is so easy, then why are Japanese people so crappy at it?

because japanese people are inferior!
cant do the shit right

LEARN OTHER LANGUAGES DUMB AMERIKKKANS!

>>4
HIROSHIMA, NAGAZAKI

I'm a fucking dumbass and I know English and only know like 2 words in Japanese. Kawaii and konichiwa. LOL PHEER ME!!!

Baka, Stupid/Idiot. You know 3 words in japanese now

あほう

四単語ｗｗｗ

私は陽気である

>>4
Japanese doesn't really have to learn other languages thanks to their own strong economic

>>12
It's economy, not economic.

Which proves that English is as hard as other languages.

Sage this stupid thread.

>>1
PERHAPS THE SAME COULD BE SAID OF ALL LANGUAGES

The war on English.

Isn't this actually a compliment? What better language to unite people all over the world than the most easy one to learn and use?

Every language has it's share of idiots, just because English speaking retards are the only ones YOU've seen doesn't mean that's all there is.

>>17
Just like the Spanish have a tendency to be complete morons.

>>18
NO U GRINGO HUECO

el idioma del mono loco descubridor de las torres gemeleas

I can only speak English and Japanese, but here's my thoughts on this.

ANY language is easy to speak if you're in an environment where you use it on a daily basis.  Using natural sentences, on the other hand, takes far longer.  This is especially true of a language like English that has lots of odd grammar and small connecting words.  English pronunciation is also very difficult when compared to other languages like Japanese, thus accents will persist much longer with people who've learn English as a second language unless their native language is one with many of the same vowel and consonant sounds.

Writing English is also only slightly easier than Japanese, as while Japanese people have kanji to remember English speakers must remember how to spell.  Unless you are a linguist who understands word origins and morphology, kanji are only slightly more arbitrary than the spellings of many English words.

Reading-wise Japanese is harder than English because you can sound out an unknown word but you cannot do the same of an unknown kanji.  Although, it should be noted that unless you know the meaning of the word, being able to sound it out is still of no use.

The reason so many people can speak English in the world is that it is spoken in many places in the world.  This has nothing to do with how "easy" it is.  Japanese people cannot speak English because, although they all "study" it in grade school, the English education system is flawed and basically consists of memorizing a series of vocabulary words and preset sentences to regurgitate for a test, after which they will be soon forgotten.  "English" class is taught almost entirely in Japanese, and there is little, or more often absolutely no actual "speaking" done by the students.  A Japanese person who's spent half a year in the US will be able to speak more English than a Japanese person who's studied since they were in elementary school.

>>20, see >>18

el idioma del demente primitivo descubridor del fuego

"Japanese people cannot speak English because, although they all "study" it in grade school, the English education system is flawed and basically consists of memorizing a series of vocabulary words and preset sentences to regurgitate for a test, after which they will be soon forgotten.  "English" class is taught almost entirely in Japanese, and there is little, or more often absolutely no actual "speaking" done by the students.  A Japanese person who's spent half a year in the US will be able to speak more English than a Japanese person who's studied since they were in elementary school." >>21

Hmm. This explains why "Engrish" is so abundant in Japan....also, the method of learning Japanese (the written version, anyhow) is also based on memorization, because of the garbled writing system (memorization-oriented Chinese writing, along with more phonetics-compatible kana - which might ALSO be memorized due to the older emphasis on kanji), and this older memorization focus may have heavily influenced the learning of English.

>>24
Yes, learning to write in Japanese is basically a process of memorizing characters and then using them a lot so the writing process for each character sticks in your head.  Because of computers, there are many people who forget how to write most kanji once they get to the point where most of their reports and whatnot can be written on the computer.  It's kind of like English speakers forgetting how to spell because they rely on spellcheck.

las 3 palabras mas graciosas de la tierra:

1- IMEEJIS
2- troleo
3- vikingo

"You need three months to learn English, three years to learn French and 30 years to learn German."

what about japanese?

>>28
80 years +
if not you will always sound like a 5 years old little girl to japaneses

So many otaku Americans go on quests to Japanese and they all suck at speaking it.

You could also try to learn dutch, it has 525 prepositions and 4400 combinations with verbs to use them. It will take you some time before you have mastered them all...

Danish. One of the hardest.

>>31
Not to mention that it is DAMN hard to pronounce... shit man... shit...

Hungarian is actually the hardest. The British did a study.

I would like to think that welsh is quite difficult.

>>34
Hungarian is pretty easy:
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>>36
Why don't more people speak C++?

What fail.

I don't see anyone talking about Swahili's eleven gender classes or the click languages at all. How about the Chinese tonal system? Or the difference between aspirated and unaspirated sounds in Thai that many Germanic and Romantic language speakers can't tell the difference between?

Ffs, languages are only "easier" to learn based on what the speaker's first language is.

Also, which English are we talking about?

Ffs, languages are only "easier" to learn based on what the speaker's first language is.

YOU ARE RIGHT

WOW

QUENYA IS THE BEST LANGUAGE GUYS
STOP FIGHTING ALREADY