Non-natives: what do you think about English language?

Originally Posted by Yamigarasu

German, French, Italian and Spanish, the most teached ones at schools around the world.

And english is indeed the easiest language I ever encountered, anyone can learn alone with a dictionary at their side, sure you wont be excellent at grammar or sentence estructure, but with a bit of practice, you can cover that, sorta.

Proof of that, me, I started translating games when I was 8 for the fun, and to get to know the story a little better and not just play the game and got hooked up in the language, today, 18 years later, got somewhat better, just can't speak well without butchering pronunciation, it's easier to practice writing because of the internet and all.

It doesn't matter how much I hate this language (and how much I suck at it), I have to say it is quite simple in comparison to other languages I have studied.

HOWEVER, I do have some serious problems with the annoying pronunciation (full vs fool for example) and that the writing doesn't tell you all the time the correct pronunciation of certain stuff.

Stupid English.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Yamigarasu

I think only mandarin, arabic and a few african dialects can be more annoying than english when dealing with pronunciation.

Heck, you know eye sounds like aye, but you still needs to butcher it because you rarely, if ever, speaks it out loud.

Woah, I don't know about african and arabic... but mandarin and other Chinese dialects scared me to death when I "tried" to took some "lessons" from a friend.

There's nowhere I can't reach.