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Arguably that makes it easier to learn for people who speak either Germanic or Romance Languages. The hard part about english is our vocabulary, compared to any
by Aloha 9y ago
Arguably that makes it easier to learn for people who speak either Germanic or Romance Languages. The hard part about english is our vocabulary, compared to any Germanic or Romance language its huge, because of the history of english we have two or more words for many things - some are context based, some are just archaic, and some are in every day common use.
- StavrosK 9y agoThat's kind of a tradeoff, though. It makes half the language easy for other Germanic language speakers, the other half easy for Romanic language speakers, but speakers of neither just end up having a harder time because they pretty much have to learn two different vocabularies.
- Aloha 9y agoArguably you can get by with just one (plus a little of the other) vocabulary and still be pretty intelligible.