Thank you for helping my point. Also… Aaaaaa… Why is the so many characters?!

I don’t know all the words in this, but I doubt it; it’s a classic Chinese tongue twister.

The first line translates to "four is four, ten is ten, fourteen is fourteen, forty is forty. On the second & third line it’s something along the lines of “whoever says 40/14 says <X>, <sth> 40/14”, as far as I can tell.

Nope, but it does come up if you get tested for breast cancer.

Point is, that yacht isn’t a difficult word at all. Especially not if you’re European, since the word for yacht in many European languages is… yacht.

What does that mean

German is wild! I never managed to get I to stick.

eh people always point to German but they just use compound words more often. if you know the parts that make up the word it shouldn’t be hard to parse.

It’s a medical term or word or whatever. But it is not easy to pronounce at all. That’s the thing with Danish. We have a lot of letters that are silent or changes sound depending on what letters they are next to and sometimes just because.

Even if you have skildvagtslymfeknudeundersøgelse broken down for you, I doubt you’d be able to pronounce it correctly because several repeat letters in that word are pronounced differently and some of them are silent.

Words like: ord, ost, mos, mos and orden all have vastly different ways of pronouncing the o and mos and mos are completely different words with completely different pronunciations where you can literally only tell which one it is based on context in the text. By themselves, you will not know.

Every language has their little quirks like that, but everybody knows how to pronounce yacht as yacht is the word for fancy boat in many languages. The post above is basically like being impressed that a foreigner knows how to pronounce “okay”.

I prefer “angstschreeuw” as word to annoy foreigners with. 7 consonants in a row!

Elektriciteitsproductiemaatschappij or basically electricity producing company.

It is a medical word for getting tested for breast cancer. I didn’t bring it up because it is a difficult word to understand, but because it is difficult to pronounce correctly without stumbling over it. Yacht is not difficult in any way since our word for yacht is also yacht and because the spellings and sounds are pretty common in for example German, which is another language we are being taught from an early age.

Of course, all languages and their difficulties are relative depending on where in the world you live, but if you’re European, especially western European, then it is pretty silly to be impressed that people can pronounce yacht.

Having a long word like skildvagtslymfeknudeundersøgelse is a lot more tricky since it’s a bit of a tongue twister to pronounce and if you aren’t well versed in Danish, you will also not know when or how to pronounce each letter, as several of them have different sounds or no sounds at all at different places in the word. That is why I brought it up.

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It is pronounced pretty much the same way in a number of different languages.

Like yogurt without the ‘ur’

https://voca.ro/1j3aWaVZBOPo

Americans don’t memorize all that shit for English either.

… because it doesn’t exist in English. Of course you don’t remember things that don’t exist.

Don’t try and learn it out of a textbook, just start talking and reading.

Yep. That’s why you can pick out every American stumbling through German even after they spent 20 years in the country, because they can’t get any of the things that you have to memorize right.

And the best part is you can pronounce their words pretty logically.

If you think that what they teach in American schools in German, then maybe. But seriously, pronunciation is so not the hardest part about learning languages.

And as I said, German isn’t even a hard language either. That goes to e.g. Finnish or Hungarian (at least for western languages). But English is an easy mode language.

What the fuck do you think learning vocabulary by reading is, if not memorization? You’re just doing it subconsciously rather than intentionally.

The ideia of gramatical gender is kept, but the specific genders may be different, so it’s still pretty hard

At least that’s how I felt when learning spanish or french

lol that’s just so blatantly wrong

“for monolingual speakers of english, it’s hard to learn a language with grammatical genders, but if you already speak a language with those, that won’t be a problem”

Not necessarily. I’m German and I still have to learn French grammatical genders by heart, because they don’t necessarily match ours. Familiarity with the concept doesn’t make it any easier, just less weird.

Example: The tower. LA tour, feminine. DER Turm, masculine.

but if you already speak a language with those, that won’t be a problem

Tell me you are a monolinugal English speaker without telling me.

The problem is not wrapping your mind around the concept of grammatical genders, but that you have to memorize them for every word. And they are different in any language with grammatical gender.

For example:

• Italian: La luna (female), il sole (male)
• German: Der Mond (male), die Sonne (female)

or

• German: Das Huhn (neuter)
• Italian: il pollo (male)
• Spanish: la gallina (female)

Knowing the grammatical gender of something in one language won’t help you one bit when learning another language. In fact, it might be even detrimental, because it’s different in every language.

Tell me you are an English Monolingual without telling me you are an English Monolingual.

That is how all languages works.

The old man the boat.

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo.

Šovė į kažką = shot someone, šovė į orkaitę = put in oven. This is pretty common for all languages words can have multiple meanings.

Lol the english monolinguals. Hungarian “Lóg”=to hang, “lóg az iskolából”=to skip school. Extremely common thing in every language. Also most languages are irregular just to different extents. English irregularity is mainly in some of the past tense forms and spelling. I would count gender as an irregularity(depending on how it works in the language) which english doesnt have for example. English doesnt have cases which are another struggle for a lot of people learning languages. Then there are languages that are not as irregular, but they have extremely complicated internal logic which is just harder to learn than just learning by a case by case basis. Id put hungarian here where there are usually reasons for why things happen but it just got lost in an older version of hungarian or its so complex theres no point to learning it. Also there are things that do actually seem to be completely fucking random and are even annoying as a native speaker.

Only someone who has never learned a second language thinks that this is difficult or somehow special to English.