At about age twelve your brain stops accepting new language - #92609213 added by RandomAnonGuy at Chair

#20 - corundum

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(05/18/2013)[-]

Yeah that's one of a few things English got right.

#40 to #20 - cabbagemayhem

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(05/19/2013)[-]

Plenty of articles...minimal ambiguity...perhaps you just didn't like learning a new language.

#43 to #40 - corundum

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(05/19/2013)[-]

#51 to #43 - GetOnMyHorse

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(05/19/2013)[-]

English is one of the hardest languages to learn, actually.

#167 to #51 - TarnRazor

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(05/19/2013)[-]

Learning a new language, in general, is hard. That being said, English is one of the easiest languages to learn but it's still hard to learn. Just easy in retrospect.

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#108 to #51 - strelokkk

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(05/19/2013)[-]

I'm French and I studied both English and German, I can tell you that English is (by very far) the easiest of these 3 languages. French is way harder to learn (for example you have to learn all the gender for each and every noun) and I'm not speaking about German : There are 3 ******* noun genders, and the most ****** up thing in languages : declinations ! This **** made me stop learning German ...

English conjugation and grammar are quite easy to learn IMO.

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#82 to #51 - giguelingueling

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(05/19/2013)[-]

Why ?

#78 to #51 - comentator

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(05/19/2013)[-]

No it isn't. I learned it way faster than German or Arab.

#88 to #78 - failtolawl

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(05/19/2013)[-]

did you learn it when you were younger than 12?

#93 to #88 - comentator

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(05/19/2013)[-]

What.

#126 to #93 - RandomAnonGuy

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(05/19/2013)[-]

At about age twelve your brain stops accepting new language learning as "native" languages.

#162 to #126 - comentator

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(05/19/2013)[-]

Оh. I did start to learn it before I was 12, but most of it I've learned after.

#55 to #51 - noschool

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(05/19/2013)[-]

i think it would depend, i mean i can't believe it would be easier for a spanish or french speaker to learn japanese than english. Every language has its good and bads points but, for me, its hard to see an argument that english is as hard as hard as japanese, mandarin, or arabic because to me those languages look like scribbles, at least spanish speakers can recognize our letters and their are some similar words to help in translating. speaking of spanish they went way overboard with their verbs, in my spanish class we learned 13 different tenses that means every verb (if you don't count vosotros) has 65 conjugations, 65! that's insane!