Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion Off Topic Props to all you ESL peeps..

I agree with those who say that English is one of the easier languages to learn. I've had English and French in school.
Although my English isn't perfect I think most of what I say or write is understandable. My French ... well I think I could order a meal or go shopping if I'm there on holiday but I doubt I could really talk to another person.

Here in Germany most kids begin with English-lessons in Elementary school and later most can choose which second foreign language they want to learn (depending what kind of school you are going to).
English has its difficulties but as Olive already stated there are no accents or points over the letters which makes writing and pronouncing much easier for us ESL people (altough most Germans have problems with pronouncing the 'th' right).
For me the most difficult thing with English are the tenses. Fortunately I have a great beta who shows me my mistakes (Thanks Corrina )

I can also see why so many people have their problems with learning German. We have three articles: 'der' (masculine); 'die' (feminine) and das (neuter).
There are even nouns which can go with more than one articles like 'ketchup' (it can be masculine or neuter).

I think Japanese is an interesting language and since they have only two tenses it shouldn't be to hard to learn...

Thank you Iolanthe for posting the link.