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I disagree Spanish might be a "easier" language but it's arguably much better to learn the harder more used language than trying to take the easier route. Not t
by xphos 4y ago
I disagree Spanish might be a "easier" language but it's arguably much better to learn the harder more used language than trying to take the easier route. Not to mention the ideas that are expressed in English and Spanish differ greatly. Things like gender don't make any sense to me as a native English speaker but that makes agender way easier for me. That's a shallow difference but there are a lot more especially when you approach technical areas. Few language contain deep technical words. I think English, Chinese, German, french as go examples. And that's not to say other languages cannot develop those vocabs but they don't exist now, and inventing from scratch is really hard
- ElevenLathe 4y agoAnecdotal, but I know way more people truly bilingual people in the US who learned Spanish at home and then English later than people who learned English at home and then Spanish later. The latter is extremely rare and takes years of study. The former frequently happens almost by accident (not to discount the difficulty of it).
- TazeTSchnitzel 4y agoSpanish orthography is objectively much, much simpler to read and write than English's. To be clear, I didn't mean teaching Spanish as a second language: I was imagining a world where everyone was already a native speaker.