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- "Tiếng Anh rất dễ."
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So not true! I speak it natively and even I see that English doesn't make sense in soooo many ways. Irregular spellings, overlapping taxonomic categories. It's big ol' mess.
Here's some examples of english's rediculous orthography.
trick vs disc which words use ck, k, or c. You just kinda have to memorize it.
Then we have our borrowed words like euphemism pronounced yufamism. yup, gotta memorize those too.
Then our random choices about our vowels sea, see, ceiling.
and then our homonyms like bank (of a river), bank (where you store money), bank (the action of storing), and bank (to ricochet -there's another borrowed word to memorize-)
And our homographs like read (present tense) and read (past tense) which depend on context
And finally the irregular inflections between present and past, single and plural.
English is like a spoiled toddler that steals things from other kids and then pretends that it has always been theirs.
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You can't blame the bastard prince for having impure blood,
But if you want to really break your brain try explaining the meaning of ol' and how and why it's different than old
In all seriousness, no, English is not from an outsider's perspective.
We make up for our lack of bilinguality in America by learning a language that has several others crammed somewhat-intelligibly inside. I love it but would never choose to learn it if it weren't my native language.
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I believe they are the same in the Northern dialect, which is used here, but in some others they may be different.
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It's [r] and [j] in south; while practicing words for this course at Memrise one can hear southern pronunciation for some words.
Lol, we can tell ourselves this to pat ourselves on the back for learning such a 'difficult' language as Vietnamese...
