Walter's Famous German Language Essentials Guide

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On Monday, 2 May 2016 at 16:22:49 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 02 May 2016 13:55:35 +0100
> Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> 
> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2016-05-02 at 12:18 +0000, Claude via Digitalmars-d 
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>> Oh FFS. And they say English is a difficult language.
>
> LOL. Well, every language has its quirks - especially with the 
> commonly used words (they probably get munged the most over 
> time, because they get used the most), but I've found that 
> French is far more consistent than English - especially when 
> get a grammar book that actually explains things rather than 
> just telling you what to do. English suffers from having a lot 
> of different sources for its various words. It's consistent in 
> a lot of ways, but it's a huge mess in others - though I for 
> one think that the fact that English has no gender like 
> languages such as French and German is a huge win.
>
> In any case, learning any new language is hard - especially the 
> farther it is from your own (e.g. Asian languages are going to 
> generally be pretty brutal to learn for someone speaking a 
> European languages).
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Many Asian languages are much more straightforward then any of 
the romance languages. In Chinese verbs aren't even inflected for 
tense, voice, etc., much less this silly gendered noun stuff. 
It's extremely refreshing and quite simple grammatically.