Re: Nadal's English

On 2006-08-20, Dave Hazelwood <the_big_kahuna@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 06:23:36 -0500, wendyg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

In article <slrneee36s.rqg.mathdude@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
mathdude@xxxxxxxxxx (1/137) wrote:

On 2006-08-18, pedrodias@xxxxxxxx <pedrodias@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sao Paulo Swallow wrote:
I think he's doing a great job learning English. I've been reading
grammar books preparing for a test and I am amazed anyone learns
English as a second language.

It helps if you *don't* bother learning "grammar", such as it is.
Bloody mess, is what English grammar is.

spelling is weird and antiquated. I say this as a native
english speaker. My parents were german and I had no difficulty
learning to read german. In fact, one can read it without knowing
the meaning of the words albeit german grammar with the various
cases can be difficult.

Uh, *yeah*. Plus, there's that wacky German habit of making all those
compoundwords, which are really hard to separate if you're not used to it.
I find German pretty difficult to read.

wg


erm ... i find it easier than french. chinese surprisingly is one of
the easiest once you know the basic pictograms (like 2000 or so). do
you know that a japanese and a chinese can read the same newspaper but
can't speak to each other ? weird eh ?
I have heard that chinese has been simplified recently and many
young chinese can not read classic chinese symbols anymore and
as a result are losing contact with a form of writing that hasn't
changed in hundreds of years.
.

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