Non-native English speakers, what is your favorite thing about the English language?
Non-native English speakers, what is your favorite thing about the English language?
Charles Reed
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Isaiah Thomas
Turning nouns into verbs
>Just google X
Colton Hughes
yeah thats pretty fun, huh
Landon Gray
its the easyer language
Gavin Hill
it works amazingly well as a storytelling language and is nice to listen to in music form.
Nicholas Russell
this
Nathaniel Martin
Do you think it's easier because it's simpler to understand, or because you had so much exposure to it and media and everything that it's almost second nature by now?
Ayden Evans
i can spying anglos
James Perez
w what do you mean storytellin. Please explain
Easton Fisher
>Do you think it's easier because it's simpler to understand, or because you had so much exposure to it and media and everything that it's almost second nature by now?
both
Jose Hall
It's like a sum of all European languages
Loanwords from french and latin allow you to express your feelings more efficiently
Simple grammar
Broad vocabulary
English sounds like shit tho
Jeremiah Sullivan
nothing
it's just something you do because you have to, like waking up at 5:30 AM or paying taxes
Justin Williams
Nice trips. What is it about the sound of the language that you find unpleasant
Levi Morales
lol you dont HAVE to speak English
Blake Murphy
>easy grammar
>sounds awesome in music because of open, soft vocals
Cameron Perry
Sometimes "t"s turn into "d" and you don't know when
If you're going to pronounce it as "dada" why would you write it as data?
Mason Reed
That's just americans though
Cooper Parker
>If you're going to pronounce it as "dada" why would you write it as data?
I wouldn't expect you to understand Tayyip
Chase Lee
i like the way it sounds(only american accent). it's a sweet mix of german french and latin.
Noah Adams
para que vos y otros monguitos me entiendan sí, tengo que
lastimosamente desde el siglo 19 el inglés es lingua franca (y el chino es un embole así que qué suerte que no hay que aprenderlo)
now please, tell me how i don't have to speak english
Connor Price
I like how English lets you use several different structures to form sentences of complete negation.
For example
>I don't have any friends.
>I have no money.
>I have nothing to eat.
>Nobody loves me.
Putting no in front of nouns and saying you have it is so philosophically interesting to me as a monolingual Japanese speaker.
Blake Myers
Kevin Robinson
the word order is good for joke punchlines
Kayden Jones
honestly it's shit and cringey tbqh i don't know why it's our second language
Camden Reyes
Why are you posting on an English language imageboard then, you fucking spack?
Luis Mitchell
I like that Americans are the only native speaking English country who can't understand English lol
Jason Cox
Nothing really except the fact that you can communicate with people all around the world with it
Ryder Myers
What I like: simple grammar, people from all the cool countries speak it, very concise and if you don't mind speaking like a lazy bum you can get even more succinct
Don't like: that one posh British accent, no proper 2nd person plural pronoun, no future tense (seriously, what the fuck?!), random pronunciation and the "th" sound in particular
Don't know how to feel about it: no gender, no formal form, words ending in consonant sound weird and chopped up to me
Kayden Taylor
Making cluster insults and words with double meaning.
Isaiah Anderson
I've stopped reading fiction books in finnish because english just works much better when describing things for some reason. must be the ridiculous collection of adjectives.
fug u
John James
It's not french
Sebastian Sullivan
No gendered nouns is definitely a likeable thing
Jacob Watson
>Sup Forums
>English
commit suicide faggot
John Howard
It enables me to leave my country
Cooper Reed
It's not Swedish
Gavin Johnson
Mange tes morts, bâtard !
Adam Hughes
>>I don't have any friends.
>>I have no money.
>>I have nothing to eat.
>>Nobody loves me.
Anthony Sanchez
The countless puns, the funny phrases and euphemisms, the way you can be both pithy and very verbose without it seeming forced.
I don't know. I feel like English is a language uniquely suited for comedy.
Maybe it's because I don't master any other languages quite as well.
I feel like I can get away with a lot more when speaking English than when speaking any other language. But that's probably mostly because I'm a foreigner and don't feel like anyone expects me to be particularly eloquent or even to use the correct grammar or vocabulary all the time.