English is still mostly phonetic

Guest   Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:32 am GMT
<<The person who wrote the earlier sentence speaks "cheap" Spanish.>>

So maybe this "cheap Spanish" is as easy to learn as English? But, the real McCoy is vastly more complex?
WRP   Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:23 pm GMT
I don't know that any language can be more complicated overall than others, they're just complicated in different ways (ie Spanish has more conjugations and tenses, but English has many MANY more words). I think people sometimes mistake difference from their native language for complication.
Guest   Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:29 pm GMT
<<The person who wrote the earlier sentence speaks "cheap" Spanish>>
Actually they're both corret, you just repeated it with different words:

"Todos deberian de aprender español y su vida seria mucho mas facil"
Everyone should learn Spanish and their life would be much easier

"Todos deberían aprender español, porque si lo hicieran, su vida sería más fácil"
Everyone should learn Spanish, because if they did, their live would be much easier.
Guest   Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:21 pm GMT
nonsense

English has the most chaotic and arbitrary relation between pronunciation and spelling I have ever seen
Guest   Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:41 pm GMT
French is even worse in some respects.
Guest   Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:59 pm GMT
@Brennus

I see you are back as a moderator ...

Is it still forbidden to post anything about German in the languages forum?