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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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English is just a Creole Language For Dummies (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Kallioapina@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works

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As the title says, this popped into my head while walking to my home being showered with subzero frozen rain.

Modern english is just an creole language of 5 different european languages and made super easy to mix the conflicts between those languages. Thats why its so easy to learn for most people.

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[–] Celestial6370@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Is English known for being easy to learn?

[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

im, it's definitely one of the easiest languages to learn (I speak Korean, English, and some Japanese). The fact that there are no gender distinctions or honorifics contributes significantly to its ease.
The comparative ease also comes from the fact that, since it's the de facto lingua franca, you simply cannot avoid learning it. It's also easy to learn in terms of accessibility.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

English being the lingua Franca is a wild thing

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

English is the <"French language" in Italian> is a pretty strange statement when you think about it.

[–] ThoGot@lemm.ee 5 points 20 hours ago

In my experience and what I heard from other people, yes
(but it's also from a european perspective)

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

In comparison to most other languages? Definitely

[–] Kallioapina@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At least thats what I've always heard from various sources during my 40'sh years on this earth (beginning from our english teacher while I was around 9 years old).

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I would argue it's one of the harder ones. Not the hardest for sure (that title would have to go to Japanese or Chinese, probably), but I would say that it's significantly harder than the average language

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

What would you consider a language that is easier to learn and why?

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago

One comment I heard from a native french speaker is that the "dictionary is much larger" than french. Which makes sense because English incorporated many french words.