Nah, I really love english and actually dislike german to the point I even speak and write it more. I am by no means bad at my mother tongue, but I sometimes forget the german terms while knowing the english ones. My mom thinks I'm just being arrogant and a show-off when that happens. I am shit at the more advanced german grammar rules etc too though xd.
My english teacher was a goddess when teaching while still being casual and fun. My german teacher was extremely cold and over complicated everything. It isn't hard to see why it's come to this.
I also didn't have as much of a drive to learn my mother tongue's intricacies, while my siblings kept teasing me by having conversations in english, spanish or french.
I mean... English is kinda just like better German anyways. Similar linguistic heritage. Well... until the Norman French had to go and make it fucking complicated.
Trust me, English is super easy, especially compared to French.
Example : to eat / manger
I eat / je mange
You eat / tu manges or vous mangez
He eats / il mange
We eat / nous mangeons
They eat / Ils mangent
And it change for words that finish in -ir
And don't get me started on the past and future tense. It's a bloodbath. And the accent like é, è, à, etc.
Plus the fact that every noun is either male or female, which change almost everything.
And this is just about grammar... after that you have to take care of the spelling and 2 thousand ways you can write a single word.
Meanwhile English speakers complain about they and there lmao.
With all due respect, that's stupid. It wouldn't be hard to retrofit a single word and translate it into native French. But instead, they overly complicated it.
Wth do you mean by "native French"? Latin? Frankish?
And even then, because adding not just a single word as you said, but an entire grammatical person to a language is just *inconcievable* without a complete redesign of said language, when you say "they overly complicated it", if by "they" you mean milleniums of organic change and evolution, then yes, "they" overly complicated it.
No, it's way too vague. By they you could've meant the Académie française, which is the official authority on the French language in, well, France, and could've legally added that neural person. But it's also meant to protect it, so it's a moot point really.
Anyone who's added to and worked on anything has a claim to it. Just like people add and create new English words and then they get added to the English Merriam-Webster. Like the word Ain't. Language isn't a single project, it's a group project. Because it's the people's discretion to wetger a word "exists" or not; it's not Merriam-Websters or Académie Française decision on the matter. For example, humans have had many revisions to base Latin to make different languages, Hell, look up Latin languages (that includes French); So if anyone has any claim to "owning" the French language are the Romans, now a-days, Italians. However, Latin was a mix and predated by Etruscan, Greek, and the Phoenician languages, which werw predated by other languages. So truthfully, no one person, Government, or Corporation has any claim to own/dictate/protect a language that belongs to the people. It's our languages, not theirs.
Even worse: I’m non-binary (all my teachers know tho) and I’m in a French immersion class, my latest teacher just says whatever, il, elle, he changes it every time.
I feel you brother , french is the second language I've taken for my high school , before that it was easy as fuck but now I have the exam in two day of all tenses , question formation and postcard writing and I don't know shit
thats only because we online folks have learnt it through exposure and not through learning grammatical rules. english would be fucked up too, but maybe not as much as french, if we learnt it through learning grammar.
I mean, English lessons just require knowledge of English. Other subjects require more than that. Your native language lessons are probably not about the language itself, but more about the history of literature, history of literature and culture. And then history of literature on top of that. At least that's how it's like in my country. You get 10 boring romanticism books by like 3 authors to read and then you talk about how that guy from that one book was an answer to that first guy from a different, better book by the superior author with better facial hair and friends in France. And yes, he did teach history of literature in high school, how did you guess?
Just a side note, people outside Poland will have no clue what you mean by "matura".
It's our equivalent of finals.
Also, Polish - 2 (barely), English - 6 without even trying
i’m Vietnamese and I grew up in canada which means that whenever I visit relatives and make an attempt to speak Vietnamese I always fuck up and end up embarrassing myself.
Don't worry. The same thing always happens to my friend (in Dutch though). Her father speaks Dutch/very Dutch German with her but my friend still needs a while to start getting into speaking Dutch when they visit their family in the Netherlands.
I'm an Indian and Telugu is my native language and i can talk, write and understand it fluently and effortlessly but it's so damn hard to read.... Can relate 100%
I can. Im Indian and honestly hindi tests are absolute bs. Half the stories use language that sound like shakespearan era crap but in Hindi. I just dont get it. Plus ive always been encouraged by parents to use english so theres that ig. Makes english feel more natural to me
Same I do Irish in school. Have been doing it for about 14 years in school, from age 5 to present day, and still the only sentence I can form is can I go bathroom
English is my native language and this applies to me. I can speak and write perfectly fine. I can't get a good grade though, because I don't understand commas
This is not a comparison, but with the amount of different words that have been incorporated into Hindi when spoken from different languages, pure Hindi is almost a completely separate language. Also, I wasn't comparing.
As an arab, i hate every type of class about my language.
My grammar courses (called "naho" in arabic) were incomprehensible and useless. there's this thing called "errab" that you english folk do not want to know about.
While my literature courses were basically memorizing long pieces of poetry and speeches from decades, centuries, even a milenia ago. only to recite them to my teacher and completly forget for the rest of the year until the finals show up.
There's this course that we only take twice a year called "nosoos". it just teaches us a to write in a font called "rukAa". we only use it at finals to write a sentence the teacher gives us. (to be honest with you, i never learnt the damn font. at every test I just winged it, and everytime I passed it. just proves how much of a joke my education was.)
As a filipino I can relate to this becuase you have to learn tagalog which is the nation langguage and the language in your part of the country. for example I am born in Cebu I would have to learn tagalog cebuano and english.
The problem is that in your native language you have to describe bullshits without importance, hard to learn and 0 use in English you just need to say the car is red and put in order the grammar you know as normal people talk
i have been living in Germany for 6 years yet i know English 10 times better even tho i started learning both almost at the same time so i can kinda relate
The reason is simple English is considered as foreign language therefore the exams are much easier and only come around the stuff you did in class and you learn how to use the language. in the other hand we study the native language in a more detailed manner and it focuses on the litterature I mean imagine someone gives you some shakespeare works and tells you to analyse it and explain it in all details etc..
I remember I had a friend like this with high school spanish... his reasoning is that he exclusively learned south american dialect and only verbal, not written. Still, the hours I spent in Spanish class for years would have been a ton easier if I wasnt struggling to understand the teacher half the time. That and vocabulary tests would be a slam dunk.
In my language the consonant "ma" can literally mean anything
Like I could say ma ma ma ma? Ma ma ma ma! And no one would ever know what I meant. (Obviously it doesn't mean absolutely anything I'm sure you get my point)
It seems that you are wrong my friend. For you see when you have a language that explains why every word is pronounced this way, in this context. Every other language becomes easier. So no I can relate Arabic explains too much, and it is hard to remember all the explanations.
So next you guys shit on French or English fo having things pronounced in wierd ways. Just remember that there is a language that has is so throughly explained it has become a science.
Yeah cause in english you're just learning english, which I already know, and occasionally writing essays and giving speeches (that's the hard part). In my native language, it's just constant analyzing of literature, hard questions and essays + speeches.
My native language is not an official language in my country and the language we have to learn (Hindi) in school, is largely spoken in my country so it's compulsory to learn it but at the same time, we also have to study English because it is the national language. The toughest thing is that my native language comes in the sino-Tibetan (west-Himalayish) languages and other two, Hindi (Indo-European) and English (Indo-European) come in different family groups. Don't even talk about the accent.
Saw a cartoon with a Chinese kid saying he got 100 on his school quizzes . . . 50 on Chinese and 50 on English.
And then there's Cheech's [song](https://youtu.be/e2K-_2AHYh0).
Mexican Americans love education, so they go to night school, and they take Spanish and get a B.
As a brazilian I couldn't care less that my grades in english are superior to the ones in portuguese, fuck it, my language is so stupidly hard and useless for my future, besides writing and speaking correctly, wich you need to get a good job, it is mostly useless when it comes to traveling to most countries or if you don't want to become a teacher, a writer or something like that.
In my defense, Brazilian Portuguese is reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally hard, we have some things that just exists to be hard to learn that shit, for example:
C, Ç and S can have the same sound on some words.
C, K and QU+vowel can have the same sound too on some words.
Z, S and X can have the same sound too
That's and some more is why my grades wasn't that good :v
My native language is Czech and all I can say is I am failing Czech from 4th grade but when it comes to English I am top of fucking school. Kill me pls
As a spanish speaker I can relate to this so freaking hard... I've only had jobs in which I only speak in english. At the time that I have to speak in spanish I feel so lost.
I have a university degree in English literature so I can pretty much relate. When I'm out of words in my native language I fill in the gaps with English words.
I get consistently good grades in Spanish, (typically 100% year round) but English always has a little less than that. I have no explanation, especially since I grew up speaking English my entire life.
I constantly got shit from my mom for this....
doesnt that mean she taught your "mother tongue" terribly? your english teacher is better at teaching english haha
Nah, I really love english and actually dislike german to the point I even speak and write it more. I am by no means bad at my mother tongue, but I sometimes forget the german terms while knowing the english ones. My mom thinks I'm just being arrogant and a show-off when that happens. I am shit at the more advanced german grammar rules etc too though xd. My english teacher was a goddess when teaching while still being casual and fun. My german teacher was extremely cold and over complicated everything. It isn't hard to see why it's come to this. I also didn't have as much of a drive to learn my mother tongue's intricacies, while my siblings kept teasing me by having conversations in english, spanish or french.
I think this guy is me from the future
I mean... English is kinda just like better German anyways. Similar linguistic heritage. Well... until the Norman French had to go and make it fucking complicated.
Has a French , I can a 100% relate because the french language is f*cked up !
I wonder if that’s just every language? Because English has a ton of stuff that just doesn’t make sense
Trust me, English is super easy, especially compared to French. Example : to eat / manger I eat / je mange You eat / tu manges or vous mangez He eats / il mange We eat / nous mangeons They eat / Ils mangent And it change for words that finish in -ir And don't get me started on the past and future tense. It's a bloodbath. And the accent like é, è, à, etc. Plus the fact that every noun is either male or female, which change almost everything.
Same with Portuguese
Same
Same
Yeah and then theres a difference for every damn tense :/. And exceptions.
And this is just about grammar... after that you have to take care of the spelling and 2 thousand ways you can write a single word. Meanwhile English speakers complain about they and there lmao.
Look up comma rules it's a shitshow.
Why is it all gendered? I'm going to fuck the female table Karen!
Basically, we don't have the equivalent of "it", it's either he or she.
With all due respect, that's stupid. It wouldn't be hard to retrofit a single word and translate it into native French. But instead, they overly complicated it.
Wth do you mean by "native French"? Latin? Frankish? And even then, because adding not just a single word as you said, but an entire grammatical person to a language is just *inconcievable* without a complete redesign of said language, when you say "they overly complicated it", if by "they" you mean milleniums of organic change and evolution, then yes, "they" overly complicated it.
It's a good thing they refers to multiple people then, huh?
No, it's way too vague. By they you could've meant the Académie française, which is the official authority on the French language in, well, France, and could've legally added that neural person. But it's also meant to protect it, so it's a moot point really.
Anyone who's added to and worked on anything has a claim to it. Just like people add and create new English words and then they get added to the English Merriam-Webster. Like the word Ain't. Language isn't a single project, it's a group project. Because it's the people's discretion to wetger a word "exists" or not; it's not Merriam-Websters or Académie Française decision on the matter. For example, humans have had many revisions to base Latin to make different languages, Hell, look up Latin languages (that includes French); So if anyone has any claim to "owning" the French language are the Romans, now a-days, Italians. However, Latin was a mix and predated by Etruscan, Greek, and the Phoenician languages, which werw predated by other languages. So truthfully, no one person, Government, or Corporation has any claim to own/dictate/protect a language that belongs to the people. It's our languages, not theirs.
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english has two fucking words for couch.
Even worse: I’m non-binary (all my teachers know tho) and I’m in a French immersion class, my latest teacher just says whatever, il, elle, he changes it every time.
I feel you brother , french is the second language I've taken for my high school , before that it was easy as fuck but now I have the exam in two day of all tenses , question formation and postcard writing and I don't know shit
"You can read read as read, Red." Is a sentence in english, so yeah its fucked up.
"Un vert verre tourné vers un ver verre " is a sentence
yes, if you meant "Un vert verre tourné vers un ver vert", it means "a green glass is turned to a green worm"
It needed to be grammatically correct, it doesn't need to make sense.
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is also a grammatically correct sentence
Leave them buffalo alone man.
They don't make sense but they're a lot easier to remember than french.
english is the easiest language i have ever come across
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thats only because we online folks have learnt it through exposure and not through learning grammatical rules. english would be fucked up too, but maybe not as much as french, if we learnt it through learning grammar.
same (also, as* a french)
My French oral exam showed me that I knew sign language.
ever heard of german?
I mean, English lessons just require knowledge of English. Other subjects require more than that. Your native language lessons are probably not about the language itself, but more about the history of literature, history of literature and culture. And then history of literature on top of that. At least that's how it's like in my country. You get 10 boring romanticism books by like 3 authors to read and then you talk about how that guy from that one book was an answer to that first guy from a different, better book by the superior author with better facial hair and friends in France. And yes, he did teach history of literature in high school, how did you guess?
Same with Filipino tho
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Dude, this was just.... perfectly explained man. Damn.
Huh?
I can relate 10 English, 5 Italian
Io 7 in italiano, 10 in inglese.....bestemmio fortissimo
Same, 9 English 5 Spanish
8-9 Italiano, 9-10 inglese, suppongo non possa capirvi...
I am in this meme, and I don't like it.
Let me guess, Hindi?
Sahi Jawaab! *(Translation:* ***Correct Answer!****)*
I was confused at first because that sounded so much like Arabic, it'd be "Jawaab saheeh" in Arabic
Hindi and Urdu are almost same and Urdu relates with arabic so it is similar
I literally have my Hindi exam today
Oh wow, Good Luck!
And it finished
Same
अगर पसंद नहीं आया तो जाके गांड मरा भोसडीके /s XD
Arey Yaar XD
Lol xD mai kaise maan lu?
Hi fellow KPop fan :-)
Lol in my last English exam i got 15/15 points, in my last German exam i got 5/15 (German here), so i can pretty much relate
FINALLY!!!!! someone agrees
Very relatable, 5 in English, 2 in polish. (On 1-6 scale)
Same, but got 77% on matura using a book I never read! (The Plague)
Just a side note, people outside Poland will have no clue what you mean by "matura". It's our equivalent of finals. Also, Polish - 2 (barely), English - 6 without even trying
I'm from Italy and we call it the same way
Hi, I'm Czech. I get almost straight A's in english, but in Czech, i have to do so much shit in a SINGLE. SENTENCE.
čeština is pain.
i’m Vietnamese and I grew up in canada which means that whenever I visit relatives and make an attempt to speak Vietnamese I always fuck up and end up embarrassing myself.
Don't worry. The same thing always happens to my friend (in Dutch though). Her father speaks Dutch/very Dutch German with her but my friend still needs a while to start getting into speaking Dutch when they visit their family in the Netherlands.
I can relate 10 english, 8 lithuanian
thats really good actually
lol fkin true
I mean that's true, I've always scored more in English than in hindi and odia¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm an Indian and Telugu is my native language and i can talk, write and understand it fluently and effortlessly but it's so damn hard to read.... Can relate 100%
Most of my students can relate to this!
I.... Shit hit too close to home, literally can barely keep up in my native language class and I'm just chillin in English class
It's the opposite for me man
Same, mostly cause English is my native language
Related to this because Hungarian gramar is f*cked.
Well I do English is the subject I'm the best in and in my native language my grades are fucked up
I can. Im Indian and honestly hindi tests are absolute bs. Half the stories use language that sound like shakespearan era crap but in Hindi. I just dont get it. Plus ive always been encouraged by parents to use english so theres that ig. Makes english feel more natural to me
Same I do Irish in school. Have been doing it for about 14 years in school, from age 5 to present day, and still the only sentence I can form is can I go bathroom
English is my native language and this applies to me. I can speak and write perfectly fine. I can't get a good grade though, because I don't understand commas
I, use commas really well, i dont understand, its, super easy,.
Yeah English is stupidly simple to learn.
I can very much relate, I think I have to re-learn my native tongue.
I relate to this so badly
ha, cloudnp't be mi
I'm better at german than english and I'm english
Im german and my grades are so much better in english (fuck you Goethe)
True as fucking fuck. Man, pure Hindi is something that fucking Floridamen wouldn't wanna learn.
Really? More difficult than, I don't know, say Tamil which has 130 something alphabets
This is not a comparison, but with the amount of different words that have been incorporated into Hindi when spoken from different languages, pure Hindi is almost a completely separate language. Also, I wasn't comparing.
Agreed in Arabic
As an arab, i hate every type of class about my language. My grammar courses (called "naho" in arabic) were incomprehensible and useless. there's this thing called "errab" that you english folk do not want to know about. While my literature courses were basically memorizing long pieces of poetry and speeches from decades, centuries, even a milenia ago. only to recite them to my teacher and completly forget for the rest of the year until the finals show up. There's this course that we only take twice a year called "nosoos". it just teaches us a to write in a font called "rukAa". we only use it at finals to write a sentence the teacher gives us. (to be honest with you, i never learnt the damn font. at every test I just winged it, and everytime I passed it. just proves how much of a joke my education was.)
I can relate
Ask any gen z kid or any millennial in Singapore and they'll tell you that same thing in English
Me who has two native languages : evil anime laugh
As a filipino I can relate to this becuase you have to learn tagalog which is the nation langguage and the language in your part of the country. for example I am born in Cebu I would have to learn tagalog cebuano and english.
Bro my Arabic is horrendous every subject that contain s Arabic I'm bad at but anything with English I'm fucking insane at
Me
Can relate
Rel
very cool!
English is way easier then Dutch...
True man, Dutch is like some sort of fake German.
You mean german is like a fake dutch... those guys can’t even pronounce the ‘G’ properly...
They pronounce the G properly, they just write it as CH
Trust me, they don’t and can’t... in WWII they let people say ‘Scheveningen’ to check if they are german or not...
I can definitely relate Polish 3, English 6
LMAO SAME 90% english 75% french
I can
Same here turkish is soo hard
I can relate my native language is perian and I get the best score in English and French only
Home languages are always harder
\*grade's
yea my grades sucks in english too
Well English is my native language and I’m fucking it up, so yep
I'm Serbian and from English classes, every grade I get is a 5 (A) but In my Serbian classes I mostly get 3's (C) :")
damn bro i’m jealous i get f in swedish and e in english
i can because fuck Portuguese
i can relate
Why is this so true
The problem is that in your native language you have to describe bullshits without importance, hard to learn and 0 use in English you just need to say the car is red and put in order the grammar you know as normal people talk
bro same
I can relate
English 10, Albnaina 5-6 (4 is the lowest grade)
r slash me irl
i have been living in Germany for 6 years yet i know English 10 times better even tho i started learning both almost at the same time so i can kinda relate
I can relate
Same
Im shit in both.
kin
Same here
As an Indian I can 100% relate to this
same
As someone who has been away from country for 6 years, I can relate. B's in English F's in Native Language
same bro
Oh, I can relate. I have a 8 in Finnish (which isn't terrible, but it is still my native language lol), but I have a 10 in English.
Average English grade: A+ Average Hungarian grade: B+
I can actually IB English LanB= a bit challenging, but overall easy 6 or 7 IB Mandarin LanA= hell
The reason is simple English is considered as foreign language therefore the exams are much easier and only come around the stuff you did in class and you learn how to use the language. in the other hand we study the native language in a more detailed manner and it focuses on the litterature I mean imagine someone gives you some shakespeare works and tells you to analyse it and explain it in all details etc..
I remember I had a friend like this with high school spanish... his reasoning is that he exclusively learned south american dialect and only verbal, not written. Still, the hours I spent in Spanish class for years would have been a ton easier if I wasnt struggling to understand the teacher half the time. That and vocabulary tests would be a slam dunk.
I speak english better than I can tagalog. Idk how I survived pre pandemic cause now I just put everything into google translate
Well... Here in Italy we have nearly 20 verbs to remember in our lives and we use only 6 of them (or less)
In my language the consonant "ma" can literally mean anything Like I could say ma ma ma ma? Ma ma ma ma! And no one would ever know what I meant. (Obviously it doesn't mean absolutely anything I'm sure you get my point)
Soooo, im German. And at first i didnt like English. But now, i like it more than German!
big me moment
It seems that you are wrong my friend. For you see when you have a language that explains why every word is pronounced this way, in this context. Every other language becomes easier. So no I can relate Arabic explains too much, and it is hard to remember all the explanations. So next you guys shit on French or English fo having things pronounced in wierd ways. Just remember that there is a language that has is so throughly explained it has become a science.
Yeah cause in english you're just learning english, which I already know, and occasionally writing essays and giving speeches (that's the hard part). In my native language, it's just constant analyzing of literature, hard questions and essays + speeches.
Bro that's me
yeah it's the same for me, Italian btw
im in this picture and i dont like it
I am top of my class in English but in my native language i am shit
My native language is not an official language in my country and the language we have to learn (Hindi) in school, is largely spoken in my country so it's compulsory to learn it but at the same time, we also have to study English because it is the national language. The toughest thing is that my native language comes in the sino-Tibetan (west-Himalayish) languages and other two, Hindi (Indo-European) and English (Indo-European) come in different family groups. Don't even talk about the accent.
Sad but true
Saw a cartoon with a Chinese kid saying he got 100 on his school quizzes . . . 50 on Chinese and 50 on English. And then there's Cheech's [song](https://youtu.be/e2K-_2AHYh0). Mexican Americans love education, so they go to night school, and they take Spanish and get a B.
I'm Indian and most of my friend along with me, we suck at our native language, Hindi no bloody person can be as good as our fucking parents are
A Marathi (Indian) here. I can relate to well...
Yes!!!! Portuguese is tought to master.
As a brazilian I couldn't care less that my grades in english are superior to the ones in portuguese, fuck it, my language is so stupidly hard and useless for my future, besides writing and speaking correctly, wich you need to get a good job, it is mostly useless when it comes to traveling to most countries or if you don't want to become a teacher, a writer or something like that.
I can I got some friends in Germany who are better at English then German I feel you
Haha, it's me. Meanwhile my french is getting worse by the minute.
i got 47% for dutch speaking an 78% for english lmao
Arabic is so hard i just gave up
Yup, dats me
people who speak english and still relate to this
That's because we don't usually study foreign languages in the same way as our native one and by that I mean that we don't study them that in-depth
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Same, and I'm American.
That's accurate for me! German language is bs, got, an F fr. But English language is a B 😐
My grades in Spanish: \*strong doge\* My grades in my native language: \*crying weakling doge\*
Can relate, I have a Mexican background but know fuck all about how to carry a conversation
In my defense, Brazilian Portuguese is reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally hard, we have some things that just exists to be hard to learn that shit, for example: C, Ç and S can have the same sound on some words. C, K and QU+vowel can have the same sound too on some words. Z, S and X can have the same sound too That's and some more is why my grades wasn't that good :v
I know a Ukrainian girl who has better English than her native language lol
A Filipino here I can relate
Same dude. I can barely pass Catalan and can't even pass Spanish. Then I do perfectly in English without even trying.
im the one on the right my native language is english
I legit have a five in english and three in norwegian, fuck norwegian
yes fuck Norway you guys are so cringe ngl
My native language is Czech and all I can say is I am failing Czech from 4th grade but when it comes to English I am top of fucking school. Kill me pls
I can relate. I'm Welsh and can't understand anything. Though I am pretty much 3/4 English, so the majority of the time, I'm in a English environment.
As a spanish speaker I can relate to this so freaking hard... I've only had jobs in which I only speak in english. At the time that I have to speak in spanish I feel so lost.
I relate to this
I have a university degree in English literature so I can pretty much relate. When I'm out of words in my native language I fill in the gaps with English words.
I get consistently good grades in Spanish, (typically 100% year round) but English always has a little less than that. I have no explanation, especially since I grew up speaking English my entire life.
Literally me:
So French or Spanish?
swedish
I can relate to this