Eissaye wrote:
Oh, okay. Wow, you do very well for someone who learned English as a second language. It really is a stupid language, especiailly when compared to Romance languages, and even other Germanic languages (although calling English Germanic is a long stretch now).
French is just as illogical as English, especially in pronunciation, etc. And calling English Germanic is not a stretch. It incorporates traits of Romance languages but for the most part the syntax is Germanic. And Romance languages are not splendidly easier to learn than English; the bias a lot of people have is that we only hear from Western Europeans, such as French, Spanish, et cetera that already speak a Romance language...
That is why I learned to speak Esperanto, it is the only completely regular, logical language (that many people speak, Lojban has like 50 speakers and Klingon must have like 4 fluent speakers, whereas Esperanto has 1000 native speakers and 2 million learned speakers)
I am not saying English is not an irksome task, I am only saying that I do not believe the other languages are particularly easier, especially for an Asiatic or Slavic speaker..