So I misstated a couple things. :rolleyes: The point still stands entirely.
The statement about the be-verbs was more differentiating European languages in general from other languages, a thing that complicates them all. I'm aware of the ser/estar issue in Spanish (estar isn't really complicated at all, though... ser's the funny one. And I guess grasping which is more appropriate is a bit funny too). I don't remember how the be-verb works in German, it's been too long since I studied that one.
I love how you guys are basing your entire arguments off of personal opinions and not off of actual factual data obtained from real non-European language-learners. There are obvious fallacies behind your logic. Yes, there are a lot of funny rules that don't exist in English while they do in other European languages, but English likes to go against its own rules constantly. We have more exceptions to the rule than any other modern language, and as I've already said, it's because English is developed from a multitude of languages.
Anyways, where I work - a US federal government facility - we deal with a number of different languages. The languages are broken down based on the difficulty level behind learning them, into four different categories.
CATEGORY 1: Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, French, Haitian Creole, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish
CATEGORY 2: Bulgarian, Dari, Farsi (Persian), German, (Modern) Greek, Hindi-Urdu, Indonesian, Malay
CATEGORY 3: Amharic, Bengali, Burmese, Czech, English, Finnish, (Modern) Hebrew, Hungarian, Khmer (Cambodian), Lao, Nepali, Pilipino (Tagalog), Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhala, Thai, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese
CATEGORY 4: Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
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