What do you think is the best language?

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Chris Hu said:

Slimebeast said:

Chris Hu said:

pezus said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Mr Khan said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Well, I have to praise the English system of always using "The" and having a "a/an"-system that actually makes sense.


...but my bias is far too strong. Svenska äger! (Swedish FTW!)

But English also has an incredibly arbitrary system for prepositions: In, on, for, from, and at are all very hard for non-English speakers to grapple with.

Really? Well, at least I had no problems learning English prepositions. Can't say I have seen others struggling with it either, on noticeable levels.

That's so minor compared to the struggles one has to go through when learning some more complicated languages.

English is very easy in general (compared to most other stuff I've seen), I'll give it a plus for that.

English is the easiest Germanic language and its a lot easier to learn then the second easiest Germanic language German which used to be my native language.  Its also a lot easier then Spanish which I studied for a couple of years.

German and Spanish are generally considered much easier to learn than English though.

In theory maybe, but in reality no way German and Spanish have much more complicated grammar rules then Engish.  Not to mentioned that most words in German and Spanish are a lot harder to pronounce.

I dont see how German or Spanish  pronounciationfor is more complicated than the English one. I speak spanish french german and english  some japanese some polish and some irish.

English is one of the most complicated languages when it comes to pronounciation because it is a mix of alot of languages with most of it still being germanic or french.    German and Spanish almost have the same pronounciation.   You just say 90% of the words the way most of the world would write them..   French is totally hard because  almost every word is written  different from how it is pronounced.    Monsier   Mademoiselle   etc.

Or try to pronounce this:

Je mange   tu manges   elles mangent   (its all the same  LOL)


English not as much as French but even English has a strange pronounciation. Just look at  Super Mario which mutated into  Soopurr MERIOH.  or Future which mutated into somethinge like FEW CHURR (ch as in chill   Urr as in purr)

Lets say   LATIN would be the perfect language.  You can be sure  spanish people will have no problem to pronounce the words correctly  same goes for germans most of the time. French or English speakers will have serious problems because english has no real R anymore etc.  Arabic also has somewhat similar pronounciation to German Latin or Spanish. Even Japanese people know how to pronounce A E I O or U better than English speakers etc.   

Sure every language has its own stuff like the German  ST / SCH thing or the spanish LL etc.  Japanese lacks alot of western letters etc. English has TH and French tries to avoid cacophony.  But todays English  has a pronounciation that differs much more from the "global" standard than German or Spanish.


WHAT IS THE BEST LANGUAGE?

IMHO English is the best language. Its already a mix of germanic and roman languages. 
For  Germans Norwegians etc this should always be the first language to lean if they plan to learn  french italian spanish etc. Because the English vocabulary has alot of latin/french words. 

And for people from Spain Italy France etc  it should be the first language to leanr when they want to learn German, Swedish, Dutch etc... because English has a ton of Germanic words (its a germanic language)

Would be nice of English would have some  more Chinese/Japanese  and Slavic words so it could be the PERFECT LANGUAGE.