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On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:03:23 -0000 (UTC), Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com>As a member of the last UK generation to have gone to a Grammar School (11+ anyone?) I'm trying to be more Zen about American 'English' but it's a struggle. Especially as a huge number of non-English speakers are learning 'English' from American media content.
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As someone who has spent some years studying Spanish (with some
reasonable French from my schooldays) I'll offer a /small/ crumb of
comfort in defence of English...
Off-topic or not, your post was very interesting read.Speaking of Slavic languages - but especially cadence - I watch a youtube channel 'Diode Gone Wild' <https://www.youtube.com/@DiodeGoneWild>. He's from Czechia (according to him) and the way he speaks is really interesting. It took me a video or two to be able to put it in the backgroud and just listen to what he's saying. He gets a lot of hate from some (mainly American) English speakers, some of whom accuse him of playing it up or putting it on. He may be, I wouldn't know.
I don't want to brag, but learning Croatian (my native) as second
language is very hard for foreign adults. So many word changes,
prefixes, sufixes, variations, rules, exception of rules... you name
it :)
I'm not linguist, but English is quite simple compared to Slavic
languages.
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