Result!regmcfly wrote:They never came back and I got some sweet Venezuelan chocolate
Brooks wrote:Compared to how everyone else is handling their late capitalist crises I might want to call it the mercifully stagnant and unturbulent 30 years.Tempy wrote:Brooks is the assumption around Japan these days still that the "lost decade" is now in danger of becoming "the lost 30 years"?
Tempy wrote:GF speaks Hungarian and there is no way I will ever be able to learn it due to the insane grammar rules it abides by. Frequently considered one of the toughest languages to learn. edit: i am not helping, sorry dyno. follow ur heart
cockbeard wrote:"conjugate the verb"
Kow wrote:Most couples I know who are a split of Spanish (or another language) and English generally end up speaking English. Partly because of the enthusiasm of non-English speakers to learn English and also because English speakers have less need to learn another language. They also have very little understanding of the structures of their own language, let alone another. (As mentioned above)
cockbeard wrote:Kow wrote:Most couples I know who are a split of Spanish (or another language) and English generally end up speaking English. Partly because of the enthusiasm of non-English speakers to learn English and also because English speakers have less need to learn another language. They also have very little understanding of the structures of their own language, let alone another. (As mentioned above)
Mentioned elsewhere, but yes, not learning grammar at school definitely holds us back. Whenever I've dated foreign girls which is about a 50/50 split they've laughed at me struggling to describe grammar
Kow wrote:It also means English speakers have no idea what's easy or difficult in their own language, leading to the classic shouting at foreigners so they understand better scenario.
SpaceGazelle wrote:I know what a noun and a verb is. I used to know what an adjective was but I've forgotten.
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