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that's just false. English is the worst language ever from the point of view of phonetics

• Jtsummers 10y ago
  Question: Are you referring to the spelling<->phonetic consistency of the language or to the sounds the language use? I think you and tokenadult may be speaking about different things here.
  • yoplait_ 10y ago
    I was referring to the latter, though the former is bad as well :)
• DonaldFisk 10y ago
  What does that even mean? Have you tried pronouncing any Khoisan languages (or other languages with clicks) for example? If your native language is English, you'll have a much harder time than a native Zulu speaker would have. Whether a target language is easy to pronounce depends on your native language (and other languages you can pronounce accurately). If you're a native Chinese speaker (whichever variety, but particularly Mandarin), English isn't anything like as difficult as French to pronounce.
  • yoplait_ 10y ago
    that was a figure of speech dude. If we're talking about languages you ought to spot these