The only thing I found hard about learning English is that you can’t just read the word to know how it’s pronounced. I do like to impress Americans with my uncanny capability to tell you the gender of objects.
The owner of a fish and chips shop in Blackpool was having a sign made. The sign painter drew a mock up, and showed it to the shop owner, but it was a little cramped. The shop owner asked the sign painter to “leave a little more space between fish and and and and and chips.”
Realising how funny it sounded he said, “wait, no, write that down! I can call my shop that!” The sign painte diligently drew up another draft, but again it was a little cramped. The shop owner, exasperated, said “no, now we need more space between fish and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and chips!”
He paused, and his face lit up, “write that down!” And so te sign painter…
Just because we Americans pronounce everything with no clarity after the first syllable does not mean our ancient and ridiculous spelling, which may have worked for pre-Norman Saxons, is not complex.
Our verbs though are fucking baller. Almost no conjugation in most of them. And we have to be one of the few languages in the world where the present tense is not conjugated except for the third person singular (I go; you go; we go; they go; but he/she/it go𝑒𝑠).
far more complex than English. you can find plenty of information on YouTube on what exactly is hard to grasp for an English-speaker while learning the Ukrainian language.
I can imagine it is complex, but is it also complicated with these stupid inconsistencies as in English? Complexity is hard, but can be a good thing if it’s just much logic. In English the logic has sadly been long lost as seen in the original post.
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