Yes, English can be weird.. But it can be understood through tough thorough thought though.

@aerialsn1per611

4 жыл бұрын

You just thanos snapped my brain

@mitchellberklund4798

4 жыл бұрын

I’m trying to think of something to say that’s funny, but all I can think of is: ...

@Unknown_crusader

4 жыл бұрын

I had to read that really slowly to understand it

@ai-sama7740

4 жыл бұрын

Someone please explain, i am very curious

@nihilira6944

4 жыл бұрын

Oh that’s hilarious!

The reason why english is so confusing is because of all the rules. Those rules have exceptions And those exceptions have exceptions

@leila9785

4 жыл бұрын

Then don't get me startet on german

@saracaldeira1505

4 жыл бұрын

I dare you to try to learn portugues

@saracaldeira1505

4 жыл бұрын

There are more exceptions than rules

@p2seline

4 жыл бұрын

Same with estonian.

@antoniomatta9633

4 жыл бұрын

French please ;)

Jolly: ‘’We also have silent letters’’ French: allow us to introduce ourselves

@zacklockhartmusic1832

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought when they said that. I don't speak French but I've seen enough French words to know that they love their silent letters.

@basabit1061

4 жыл бұрын

Aaaaaahahahaaaaaa

@guibouille3172

4 жыл бұрын

Same thoughts at the same moment ! They really should do some French to see that English is actually one of easiest languages to learn

@ED-ne2is

4 жыл бұрын

Tbh even tho my mother tongue is French i just find English easier lol

@guibouille3172

4 жыл бұрын

@@ED-ne2is Same here !

I also saw a post on instagram lately that said something like: 'the past tense of William Shakespeare is Wouldiwas Shookspeared', which got me laughing so hard

@zacklockhartmusic1832

4 жыл бұрын

That's amazing 😂😂😂

@tannukashyap8311

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@lillian5353

4 жыл бұрын

😭😭😭😭

@varda3676

4 жыл бұрын

I had to re-read to understand😂😂😂😂😂 Gud one😂😂

@jaca3935

4 жыл бұрын

I love this!

The most confusing part of English is probably the fact that almost every part of the globe speaks different English

@wonpilspinksweaterismyjam7880

6 жыл бұрын

Ancilla Shienny EXACTLY

@adrian_zombturtle148

6 жыл бұрын

True :(

@selmnmoney69

6 жыл бұрын

what do you mean

@delaneywinton

6 жыл бұрын

And the slang in all those places in so diverse and varied

@EmTreasure88

6 жыл бұрын

Football can mean american football, or soccer.... XD

You forgot the beautiful sentence "One was a racing horse, two was one too. One won one race, two won one too."

@Eagles_Eye

5 жыл бұрын

Won was a racing horse two was won two won won won race two won won two is how I pronounce that crap.

@livedandletdie

5 жыл бұрын

John had had had had while Eric had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher. Yup English is messed up. Specially without the commas and citation marks... John had had 'had had', while Eric had had 'had', 'had had' had had a better effect on the teacher.

@urimiya

5 жыл бұрын

One costs two won and two costs one won. Ugh korean currency...

@jurgenkun7040

5 жыл бұрын

I immediately understood it. this is a german sentence. wenn Fliegen hinter Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach.

@mickcourage4598

5 жыл бұрын

There's also something like it in Dutch "Als zeven zeven zeven zeven zeven, zeven zeven zeven zeven."

So thats the reason why ollie is having a hard time learning korean, hes dyslexic. Now that i know i realized how impressive his progress is

@gabrielasnidarsis5407

3 жыл бұрын

Jolly: ‘’We also have silent letters’’ French: allow us to introduce ourselves

@user-xx1yl9ze1v

3 жыл бұрын

Somehow the rate of Koreans with dyslexia is very low. Lower than in English speaking countries, I think. Maybe the Korean alphabet is mor dyslexia-friendly?

@chichivorethechichiryadevo1413

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-xx1yl9ze1v i think that may be the case too since there are some characters in the korean alphabeth that remains the same even when inverted, and it's not very complicated. I pointed out those two factors because those are the main symptoms of dyslexia, 1. Jumbled characters or reading difficulty. 2. Slow Information processing.

@amandacrichton6268

3 жыл бұрын

People with dyslexia are actually more prone to Learning new languages easier than most!......just a shame it doesnt apply to me lol! X

@chichivorethechichiryadevo1413

3 жыл бұрын

@@amandacrichton6268 i didnt know that thank you

A man named "Is" changed his name to "Was". Before Was was Was, Was was Is.

@aussiesyeet1259

3 жыл бұрын

LMAOOOOO

@supereggtartersauce6464

3 жыл бұрын

I hate that

@afa4766

3 жыл бұрын

I'm currently learning english, and so happy rn that I get the joke

@kitkatlove89

3 жыл бұрын

Also “he no longer was Is, he now is Was’

@ellatadros

3 жыл бұрын

What. The. Actual. Heck.

Jolly: English has silent letters French: 😐😒

@Piratenbraut

4 жыл бұрын

It also has the same thing as English, where they use 4 letters to make an O. Like bordeaux. How do an A, an E, a U and an X become an O?

@Piratenbraut

4 жыл бұрын

And don't get me started on counting. sixty-eleven, sixty-twelve, sixty-thirteen....

@Al_-cf1dj

4 жыл бұрын

I'm half French, but I still struggle though, it's so confusing, but speaking is no problem

@PongoXBongo

4 жыл бұрын

Isn't largely because of the French (Normans) that English has all its silent letters? And why we call cook chicken "chicken", but cooked cow "beef"?

@schumifannreins295

4 жыл бұрын

@@Piratenbraut 99 is the best in French: four times 20 10 9

English: English is hard German: German is harder French: Hahaha have you look at French grammar Slav: Are you kidding me! Dyslexic: Guys! Every langage is hard!

@Tulakhord.

4 жыл бұрын

*laughs in finnish*

@terezamatys4489

4 жыл бұрын

I'm slav (czech) and our grammar is among the most difficult for foreiners to learn. A native speaker from England said czech was more difficult for him to learn than chinesse XD

@Cherry_Jelly

4 жыл бұрын

@@terezamatys4489 Chinese is easy, the most difficult part is learning how to write. And it depends on who's learning that language. For example I'm Polish, so Czech is easier for me than Chinese :P

@terezamatys4489

4 жыл бұрын

@@Cherry_Jelly Yea, you got a point there but it was still suprising to hear that from my teacher

@robinbirb06-79

4 жыл бұрын

*cackles in Arabic*

My favorite English sentence is actually reliant not on the words themselves, but on the emphasis of the words. (So a part of learning the English language is also learning tone. lmao) *I never said she stole my money!* [I] never said she stole my money. - Someone else said it. I [never] said she stole my money. - I didn't say it. I never [said] she stole my money. - I only implied it. I never said [she] stole my money. - I said someone did, not necessarily her. I never said she [stole] my money. - I considered it borrowed. I never said she stole [my] money. - Only that she stole money, not necessarily my own. I never said she stole my [money]. - She stole something of mine, not my money.

@sams-pg7hj

Жыл бұрын

thats like the whole Eats, shoots, and leaves book

@zhaodexter2360

Жыл бұрын

but doesn't that apply to any other languages as well?

@LysandraCorleone

Жыл бұрын

This is epic!!! And, spot on! LOL!

@3to4characters

Жыл бұрын

YOOOO I'm gonna use this

@earnestdeclarationofmedioc1706

Жыл бұрын

@@zhaodexter2360 Only languages that rely a lot on sentence structure and emphasis~ A lot of language have suffixes and markers that provide these meanings, rather than emphasis.

English: We have silent letters French: You merely adopted it. I was born in it, molded by it.

@DreamsUnspoken

3 жыл бұрын

I was there when it was written

@alycertain

3 жыл бұрын

but at least they make some sense in French

@Lokear

2 жыл бұрын

@@alycertain "Beau"

@normalman8447

Жыл бұрын

In French, silent letters follow rules. Normally, they appear at the end of a word, after the last vowel which is pronounced

@garrettevans9193

Жыл бұрын

Funny further by the fact that French is the "bane" of many English speaker's existences.

French freakin homophones: vert : green verre : glass to drink verre : material glass vers : towards vers : a line in a poem ver : earthworm vair : cinderella s shoe is made of it not written the same, pronounced the same. HOW LOVELY.

@noman1260

4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget : Ho/Oh : Interjection Au : to Aux : to but when the word is in the plural Eau : water Eaux : waters Ô : just untranslatable Haut : high All are prononced /o/. Perfect.

@spyrootur2013

4 жыл бұрын

Lorca Chaton LMAO

@thewanderer4781

4 жыл бұрын

Whoa That's confusing

@majoy101

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao. I had an exam a few yeard back and one of the questions was "a worm is going towards a green mirror" or something. I was like WHA

@RawenWarCrow

4 жыл бұрын

Just for you to know, "vair" is some kind of fur, and it's because of it's homophony with "verre" that it's represented as glass shoes in Cinderella's movies. Yup, perfect.

“GHOTI is pronounced FISH” “well then that’s where Welsh came from”

@anacarolina-rq1zx

4 жыл бұрын

Entendi foi nada...

@nnx_nm5137

4 жыл бұрын

Can you explain it? Idu

@tristin3489

4 жыл бұрын

AndreaGil_ the joke of Welsh?

@RBAWintrow

4 жыл бұрын

@@nnx_nm5137 How do we pronounce the word "ghoti"? The answer is "fish". How can "ghoti" and "fish" sound the same? gh = f as in rouGH o = i as in wOmen ti = sh as in naTIon

@la_lavanda

4 жыл бұрын

Llanvairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

I feel really bad everytime hes says he's dumb. He's actually really intelligent. He has a very quick wit and he's so creative and resourceful ❤️ i hope someday educational systems will value these traits too

@ditichaudhari7951

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, like, I would've never thought about an alien sitting in my brain, telling this one's this and that one's that

@ranjanbiswas3233

Жыл бұрын

It will never. In Asia, it's way worse. Dyslexic people are considered re**rd.

"I feel like the possibility of all those possibilities being possible is just another possibility that can possibly happen" -Mark Lee. MOM I'M FAMOUS Damn y'all be making me happy 😔✋🏻 Thank you 🌞

@blapple3475

3 жыл бұрын

thank you

@seventeenshome7691

3 жыл бұрын

@@blapple3475 Had to be said.

@barbaro267

3 жыл бұрын

**shrugs** Not my problem

@DreamsUnspoken

3 жыл бұрын

I'm upset that I know where this comes from

@annabellebirt1801

3 жыл бұрын

We are at the tram stop, are you the tram that stops? -Mark Lee (the king)

The english language is a giant meme

@ReptilianTeaDrinker

5 жыл бұрын

True.

@bluestories7816

5 жыл бұрын

I speak english its ehhh pretty stupid

@CubZeez

5 жыл бұрын

Nah, English is the most superior language

@f.602

5 жыл бұрын

How?

@serenityq26

5 жыл бұрын

that is too young to understand

Found this prose on a forum: Have you ever wondered why foreigners have trouble with the English Language? Let's face it English is a stupid language. There is no egg in the eggplant No ham in the hamburger And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England French fries were not invented in France. We sometimes take English for granted But if we examine its paradoxes we find that Quicksand takes you down slowly Boxing rings are square And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If writers write, how come fingers don't fing. If the plural of tooth is teeth Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth If the teacher taught, Why didn't the preacher praught. If a vegetarian eats vegetables What the heck does a humanitarian eat!? Why do people recite at a play Yet play at a recital? Park on driveways and Drive on parkways You have to marvel at the unique lunacy Of a language where a house can burn up as It burns down And in which you fill in a form By filling it out And a bell is only heard once it goes! English was invented by people, not computers And it reflects the creativity of the human race (Which of course isn't a race at all) That is why When the stars are out they are visible But when the lights are out they are invisible And why it is that when I wind up my watch It starts But when I wind up this observation, It ends.

@Sothey727

4 жыл бұрын

This is nice

@kumaahito3927

4 жыл бұрын

Lol. Nice. Had a similar one in my mother language with different forms of 'walk'. (70+*) They all hold some slightly different meaning, but could generally be replaced with the basic 'walk'. (They'd lose the additional meaning though...) *And it doesn't include all the old forms, just those used today(?)

@GlimzytheBee

4 жыл бұрын

Woah-

@DinosaurNick

4 жыл бұрын

This is nice. Can I copy it for my FB wall to share with my friends? :O

@fusunozcelik

4 жыл бұрын

French fries were invented by French people 🙂

They should react to how any noun in the English language can technically become a verb and still make sense when said aloud to another person. Eg: I dinosaur around the house when my brain doesn’t brain properly.

@extreme_vegoon

3 жыл бұрын

What does "dinosaur" mean in this sentence?

@Bethan1545

3 жыл бұрын

The beauty of allowing us to be stupid and make sense of a sentence that shouldn’t make sense.

@PhoenixBaby96

3 жыл бұрын

That's a bit more of a modern thing, I feel. It's been brought about, or at the very least, popularized, by internet culture. Old people will probably look at you like you're crazy if you say something like that.

@professorremuslupin8479

2 жыл бұрын

There's another example: The architects designs designs.

@skyblue2708

2 жыл бұрын

@@professorremuslupin8479 You mean "The architects design designs" or "The architect designs designs".

I seriously struggle to remember how English was when I started learning it. At this point it's all very natural to me and I look at these and wonder how in the world I got to this point. My tip I guess is reading books (as in literature). I remember taking months to read my first book and the massive improvement when I read the second one.

@guibouille3172

4 жыл бұрын

Same here ! I used to go and see my parents every two pages to ask them for the meaning of the word, and then I didn't need to anymore. Read books !

@soullessangel207

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah same I don't think much of the rules now but because I read a lot I got to learn vocabulary sentences and pronunciations a lot easier than with textbooks or written rules

@murielredondo1261

3 жыл бұрын

Same, but with movies and english captions

@erickalena

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! It seriously took me to another level. That and watching A LOT of KZread videos.

@cecitorres7905

3 жыл бұрын

Yeahhhhh I've read so many books in english that sometimes I even forget some expressions in my first language because I'm so used to read them in english so when there's a moment in real life that can be related to something I've read, I'm like "I got the perfect comeback to this... But it's in english... And I don't remember what the translation is" (I don't read that many books in my own language ironically)

English: I'm the most confusing language. German: Hold my beer French: Hold my baguette Finnish: *enters chat*

@linnblom3640

4 жыл бұрын

Finnish children actually spell the best out of all in school kids in the world, due to the fact that you spell all words exactly as they sound :)

@aleksimarno3069

4 жыл бұрын

if you speak something like, umm, let's say greek, this can be very difficult. in greek, double consonants do exist, but because they aren't pronounced, unlike in finnish, it can be confusing. also for english speakers, remembering that j is the y sound and y is a vowel can be hard.

@iterumconare4258

4 жыл бұрын

Hungarian: hold my sausage, I'm coming in

@monicass3409

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ni4Ni polish = nail polish, but Polish = the people from the country of Poland. This is why English is confusing.

@shroast6990

4 жыл бұрын

Ariko for some reason i thought learning french would be fun and easy. I was horribly wrong

In Philippines, we suddenly turn into minions. : Bababa ba? (Is it going down?) : Bababa. (Going down)

@emvuosku4219

5 жыл бұрын

In Finnish we have a wordplay: Kokko, kokoo kokoo koko kokko. Koko kokkoko? Koko kokko.

@mariellietuazon5707

5 жыл бұрын

so accurate HAHAHAHAHAHA sa jeep nagiging minions lahat

@maharanikusuma2360

5 жыл бұрын

Lol im dying imagining it

@dragonjade8853

5 жыл бұрын

Saiii That's smart

@MagdaH97

5 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile the Finns are going: Kokoo koko kokko kokoon (Gather the entire bonfire) Koko kokkoko? (The entire bonfire?) Koko kokko (The entire bonfire)

There're foreigners out there who are like "Yo English isn't that hard" and I, a native English speaker, am just sitting there like "Bruh, I literally can't English. Why is this language so freakin complicated"

@VelkanAngels

2 жыл бұрын

If English is the only language you speak, you'd have nothing to compare it to, is the thing xP. Not assuming you're monolingual, but most people I've encountered (if not all), that claimed English was difficult or confusing were monolingual English-speakers. As a Dane, I do think Danish is somewhat confusing, despite being billingual, but German was mandatory in my schools and I couldn't even get past how to use their basic articles der/die/das. Then I decided to learn Italian, which definitely takes the cake as "most difficult language" so far, with English having been the easiest. Unless we count ancient Egyptian... I gave up on that, once I realised I'd have to memorize a bunch of consonant-combinations, as vocals were hardly ever written (I only remember that "pr" means "house" or "home" and "miiw" means "cat". OH and "apdw" means "bird").

@Danspy501st

2 жыл бұрын

@@VelkanAngels Danish as a dane isnt so hard, as we more or less was born in it. English as a new language was harder for me to get over to learn until around 6 or 7 grade where I better understood it and able to use it more like writing or speaking over the internet (I still having some problem as with grammar, but that is standard for me) Untill I began to learn German I understood how hard other languages are for me to learn. Like as you said with der, die and das. But funny enough, numbers in english is harder for me to learn then numbers in german as it is the same way that we say in danish. Like the last number before the first, in like 23. Danish is alot harder for other people to learn that arent native to danish, because how our words are written and pronounced. To be fair and honest, technically every languages in the world are hard for someone outside said languages to learn

@kaldo_kaldo

2 жыл бұрын

Something that a lot of people don't consider, English is the easiest language to be understood in, but the hardest one to master. A lot of people who learn cursory English and can speak pretty normally don't ever get beyond the easy part, so they think it's easy. A lot of languages are more consistent in their difficulty while English starts very low and ends very high. like _/ instead of ----

4:50 This is why we all love Ollie. Absolute troll genius👏

JOLLY: english is the MOST CONFUSING language Comment section: btch pls

@robinbirb06-79

4 жыл бұрын

Emilie Gómez HAHAHA IKR

@chellumi

4 жыл бұрын

@YoungOasis 🤣I feel bad for u

@chellumi

4 жыл бұрын

@YoungOasis oh no...I wish u good luck tho!

English: I’m the most confusing language in the world probably.... French: Am I a joke to you ?

@Hestia_13

5 жыл бұрын

Gaelic: Excuse me!

@F_M20

5 жыл бұрын

Indonesian : "duuuhhh, count me on"

@dragonjade8853

5 жыл бұрын

Daniela Reyes Yes

5 жыл бұрын

more like *Any other language

@raymondlee949

5 жыл бұрын

Chinese: Coughs...Excuse me

Ollie is dyslexic and still tries his very hard at Korean. But Josh and Gabbie and other people make fun of him. Its really hard learning anything as a dyslexic person. I hope he understands that he is not dumb just amazing 🤍

They should react to this comment section ! Oh god I’m seriously freakin dead !!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@leeknow1896

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly! 😂 🤣 lmaooo

Silent letters? Lmao leave it to French 😂😂😂 Also why is Queue spelled like that but you only read the first letter?😂😂😂

@hannahwallace5466

5 жыл бұрын

Lady.Whatever lol I was literally going to comment that and there are also a few words that sound the same but are different parts of speech

@user-fr1nf1bg4v

5 жыл бұрын

Lady.Whatever For the aesthetic

@01cortomaltese

5 жыл бұрын

When two nations (unlike Spain) decide that it is preferable to keep etymologic letters that nobody pronounces anymore in a daily basis.

@mirjam--4127

5 жыл бұрын

Queue is pronounced like that because it's from French. The same goes for genre - it's not pronounce "the usual English way."

@yaguch_duck6372

5 жыл бұрын

I'm learning French and I read this, I went, "Oh f*ck" 😂😂😂

English speakers: English is so hard Literally everyone else: English is so easy It’s either that English is indeed easy or it’s just that we’re a bunch of idiots idk...

@agustincampanelli7706

4 жыл бұрын

Not a lot of people think English is easy. It's annoying to learn and very confusing even when you are proficient. It has over a million words, of which half are just repeated words but with different meaning/pronunciation/writing. You need every bit of context to know what meaning each word has, if you loose track it might get confusing very fast. You have to concentrate a lot, and that is exhausting when done extensively.

@tharsharibin

4 жыл бұрын

agustin Campanelli That’s very true but I’ve seen people comment how easy English is. It isn’t. Imagine seeing a word like yacht and not knowing how to pronounce it

@gebruikersnaamHannah

4 жыл бұрын

@@tharsharibin How do you pronounce yacht? hahaha I realy have no clue

@tharsharibin

4 жыл бұрын

Hannah huh.... I acc don’t know

@annique9186

4 жыл бұрын

@@gebruikersnaamHannah "iaht", pretty much. The i isn't stressed very much, though

As a Chinese, I find it amazing that even with these confusing things, you don't need help. In Chinese, you have to ASK which character to use if you don't know because there are SO many characters that sound the same. (From what my mom told) Chinese MVs even have Chinese lyrics ON THE VIDEO to understand exactly what they are saying.

@KitKat-rg8ql

Жыл бұрын

I know this comment is 2 yrs old but, I totally agree! They were talking about bat and bat in the video, while the majority of Chinese is words that sound similarly or exactly the same.

@mrshazukikei

Жыл бұрын

OOOH THAT'S WHY. I grow up watching those MVs and their lyrics across, and I just realised the significance.

My favorite 'words with two, opposite meanings' is "cleave". To split in two or " stick fast to, adhere strongly to." I once heard that English is three languages in a trench coat standing on one another's shoulders, and I support that sentiment!

제일 어이없는 동음이의어 : 계속 지는 연패, 계속 이기는 연패

@jayforever0302

6 жыл бұрын

Song Jaehyun 아 맞아요ㅋㅋㅋ 뉴스에서 올림픽 3연패같은 말 뜨면 '...뭐? 이런 미친 뭐라고? *3번이나 연속으로 졌다고?*

@user-cl4yh3uz7j

6 жыл бұрын

-ㅋㅋ-

@jayforever0302

6 жыл бұрын

Song Jaehyun 이겨서 환호할 때 "금메달!!!금메달!!! 3번째 금메달!!! *올림픽 3연패* 입니다 여러분!!!" 졌을 때 "네 이렇게 또 한번 금메달을 놓치고 *올림픽을 3연패했습니다* *이런 미띤*

@user-bb6xw2yl9o

6 жыл бұрын

에이 한문 독음이 토착화된거죠..

@lphabravocharlie

6 жыл бұрын

그래도 그런 경우는 한자가 옆에 같이 적혀있으면 문제없는데 영어는 따로 의미 표시해줄 장치도 없어서....

Englisch : Hard German: "umfahren" is the opposite of "umfahren"

@_stevenshelton

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@alma_nium

4 жыл бұрын

??!?

@ParthShende

4 жыл бұрын

@@alma_nium Umfahren means both "to drive around/avoid someone" and also to "run someone over"

@alma_nium

4 жыл бұрын

@@ParthShende Thank you for teaching me 😙 There is a similar thing in Korean. '연패' has both the meaning of losing continuosly and winning continuosly.😂

@dyciefisk2535

4 жыл бұрын

Cleave is one that always got me, it either means 'to seperate' or 'to join'

This is making me think of those french google translate memes going around now where every word sounds the same but it's a full sentence and I really want them to react aha

@TheGeographyWatch

3 жыл бұрын

They’ve already done that

@aienefpi

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGeographyWatch do you have the link of the video?

@TheGeographyWatch

3 жыл бұрын

@@aienefpi kzread.info/dash/bejne/in1ry6qhc6rKhag.html

4:31 I'm a 14 year old from Portugal. I started learning English when I was around 4 years old and, from ages 9-12 I frequented an international school. By reading, watching movies and videos and speaking a lot (especially in grade 7) I learnt English very easily (it also happens that Portuguese is one of the languages with most phonetic diversity, we use lots of sound. Reaaaally lots) and the -ough terminations were not a big deal, even in grades 4-5 (those were more though, thought and through centered, though) and the fact that we use them very frequently also helped a lot. To learn English (or any other language) you need four things: 1- want, 2- a good teacher, 3-patience and perseverance, 4- lots of practice. Then you need to know how to start (point 2 is crucial on this one). Obviously you're going for simple words and sentences first, verbs like to be, to walk, to have, to see, to need, so on so forth. You grammar is also much simpler than anything I've come across in my country's idiom. Seriously, you guys have about a third of our verb tenses (if not a forth) and your word construction is much simpler (unhappily, that is formed from happy plus the prefix un- and the suffix -ly, for example. Or incomprehensible: comprehensive +prefix in- and suffix -ble) meanwhile we have tons of different ways to get there and, while the prefix, suffix and all that is simple, word morphology expands much more and even into how words were before and what process they went through to get to what they are now (this is covered starting in grade 9, I believe). Just the way you can play with words and assemble them so simply... It's jealousy-inducing. About homophones and homonyms and homographs, you don't know how easy you have it (yes, even with the -ough issue). One word can have like 5 meanings and you'll only know which one is being used based on context, unfortunately some of those meanings can be used in the same context and things get very confusing. We don't really have many silent letter related problems, it's really just the h in the beginning of a word, otherwise you're good to go. We do have weird e rules but those are simple 6:28 as mentioned, I'm 14 years old. I still have not understood whether the word "intencional" (not translated) means "with intention" or "without intention" (pretty sure most of us don't, anyways). I believe this is enough, for now.

@theslytherinhouseofficial

Жыл бұрын

Wow that certainly was enough, very well written!

@matichagak548

Жыл бұрын

@@theslytherinhouseofficial thank you. Unfortunately I just noticed that some parts were deleted, idk why. The ones with a line over the letters and a cut. Im really confused, idk what happened there 😂

@jonathanward6483

Жыл бұрын

You will be more fluent just by being a student of the Language with a clear mind, good luck you may one day teach English to the English speaking World. But I would concentrate on Portugal, teach at an International School. Your Country is beautiful.

@matichagak548

Жыл бұрын

@@jonathanward6483 thank you

@matichagak548

Жыл бұрын

@Atheos B. Sapien I meant that I have no idea about the translation itself. Cause we have the word Intencional and then fazer tenção - intend on, but then the prefix in- would mean that intencional was accidental and it's a mess.

I choked on water when he said k-nife

@kat.f1940

5 жыл бұрын

Actually it happens all the times in english lesson when we learn that word for the first time 😂😂 the psychotic one too!

@bigbang2ne1_bts25

5 жыл бұрын

I laughed because I usually just say that anyways to mess with people

@jungel1234567890

5 жыл бұрын

The word knife derives from Old Norse "knífr" and was pronounced with the k. In "Modern Scandinavian" we say "kniv" with a hard K. I think the silent K was added (subtracted?) in the mid 1800 in the English language... although don't quote me on the last one...

@quicksilvermarvel6392

5 жыл бұрын

K-now, k-nee, ....

@rubenssiqueira6991

5 жыл бұрын

The knight of the night.

German: laut loslachen = starting to laugh out loud lautlos lachen = laughing with no sound ---------- umfahren = running something over umfahren = driving around something You're saying english is bad?

@ra1nbowFlo

4 жыл бұрын

Haha ja eh 😂 I totally agree

@nameeinfugen8953

4 жыл бұрын

Wenn Pflanzen Pflanzen pflanzen, pflanzen Pflanzen Pflanzen pflanzende Pflanzen-Pflanzen. Es macht sogar Sinn!

@sane0matic

4 жыл бұрын

Ich bin froh kein deutsch lernen zu müssen, denn umsomehr man drüber nachdenkt, destoweniger Sinn macht's. z.B. DER Baum, aber DIE Pflanze. Aber auch nicht alle Bäume! DIE Eiche, DIE Fichte, DER AHORN...Warum heist's DER Bus, wenn's doch "ein Ding" ist?! Und aus augenscheinlichen Gründen müste es auch DER Karotte und nicht DIE Karotte heissen. Wie soll man das einem beibringen?! :D

@casey3889

4 жыл бұрын

And the articles... god what I'd give for german to be less gendered. still my funniest thing to bring up when talking about the difficulty of german is that pfannkuchen and krapfen have different meanings/different words for them depending on region, and that the whole of germany is in a constant argument about whether it's der Nutella, das Nutella or die Nutella.

@phionine7027

4 жыл бұрын

Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach.

I never realised how confusing English actually is before this video. Thank god I been learning this language since I was 6 otherwise I would really struggle learning English.

Jolly: English is the most confusing language! Me: Maybe, but still easier than Chinese (which is my mother tongue)

For all the people who are saying that French is confusing, have you ever even seen Mandarin Chinese? You can't spell anything out, so you can only memorise all the characters. Multiple words sound the same, some words are different only with a stroke but mean the complete opposite, and so on. I’ve been studying both Mandarin and French with Mandarin being my literal mother language, and I can just say that Mandarin is confusing as all heck. It is far, far worse than French.

@lyswenn

5 жыл бұрын

There's this French expression, when something is too complicated, we say "it's Chinese". But someone told me that Chinese people would say "it's French" in the same context. Tbh at some point, it's not really possible to define if language A is harder or not than language B, but what constitutes a language is a multitude of factors. I've heard that Chinese was difficult because of its pronunciation and complicated sinograms, whereas French is difficult because of its conjugation and spelling. German is difficult because of its grammar, English because of its vocabulary, etc.

@ELLIE-jm8ky

5 жыл бұрын

Been studying chinese for 13 years and Im barely at elementary level in china.

@lyswenn

5 жыл бұрын

@@ELLIE-jm8ky I hope you don't mind me asking, but is it a language that you really really want to learn? I don't mean to sound rude but I know people who have been learning German for 11 years and are still are elementary level, because it's not something that interests them.

@ELLIE-jm8ky

5 жыл бұрын

Lyswenn I was born in a mixedhousehold. My father is from china so when i turned 3 they decided to put me into a Chinese school where they taught us mandarin. In school,Im already in high school 2nd yr but then last year I realized while looking at my other classmates who came from china at a later age that the level they've been teaching us is so that we can learn fast,easy and efficiently but if we came to China then it's not even enough to be able to have a full blown convo with a young adult or teen in China.

@lyswenn

5 жыл бұрын

@@ELLIE-jm8ky oooh thank you for explaining! I guess the teaching method is not the best one then? Maybe because they didn't want to discourage you all or something idk

If english is confusing then what iam i gonna say about French ??

@maelysofficial3557

5 жыл бұрын

i'm french and honestly i am very annoyed at all the ways we have to learn to conjugate verbs gufidgh there's a tense for the past in the future and a tense for the future in the past (as well as for the future in the future and the past in the past) there's these two which i never use and have no idea what they're for, imperfect and more-than-perfect i honestly can't conjugate anything on the spot, i can get the verb right if it's in a sentence or something and i never use any of the extra tenses taught to us >.>

@venesaa8527

5 жыл бұрын

Yes i know I am French too it's so annoying

@myonyellkies6213

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not french, but I took French class in university once. Needless to say, that's the first time I felt so stupid in a language class because I learn a few other languages just fine. I took it for only 1 semester just enough to fulfill my credit requirement, and never attend it again. 😂😂😂

@lanarcho-mathematicien9949

5 жыл бұрын

we have like 42 tenses lmao

@rachelshatrick3647

5 жыл бұрын

Don't even get me started on trying to learn french😭😂so many conjugations😅

This is one of my all time favorite videos. Everything is so true. So true. Makes me grateful to be a native English speaker.

I’m also dyslexic, and English is my second language after German. I always felt so stupid, because German is so difficult to learn, there are so many rules and of course exceptions… so I had difficulties writing, not so much reading. And that was the same for English. In my 11th grade, I spent some month in New Zealand, to first of all improve the language and also to experience a new culture. I loved my host family and my English evolved so much, but I still struggle with my writing. So Ollie, I really feel for you, learning Korean as a dyslexic person, must be extremely difficult and you can be so proud of yourself. Although I don’t speak Korean, my cousins are both adopted from South Korea, and they are pretty interested in their heritage, so they are learning the language, and they always struggle with all the different pronunciations and difficult sounds. ☀️💜

Check out this finnish conversation; -Kokko, kokoo koko kokko kokoon. -Koko kokkoko? -Koko kokko. (The meaning is: Mr. Kokko, gather up the whole bonfire. The whole bonfire? The whole bonfire.)

@LifewithLidz

5 жыл бұрын

Ah, Finnish😂

@Yebran

5 жыл бұрын

Like the Swedish: Far, får får får? Nej, får får inte får. Får får lamm. "Father, does sheep get sheep?" "No, sheep doesn't get sheep. Sheep get lambs"

@MagdaH97

5 жыл бұрын

Mä tiesin et "Nuotio" on oikee nimi, mut onks "Kokko" kans???

@alisa818

5 жыл бұрын

MagdaH97 on

@ilonarytkonen4496

5 жыл бұрын

@@MagdaH97 se on sukunimi ei siis etunimi..suht yleinen jos tiiän oikein..

English: Your baby is cute Rest of the planet: Cute your baby

@TheUchihaRin

4 жыл бұрын

Or: "Your baby cute is."

@katherinemurdock5965

4 жыл бұрын

Or Yoda: cute your baby is

@zfesiha

4 жыл бұрын

Or; Baby-your cute

@phghdhfggff2742

4 жыл бұрын

In finnish its still "your baby is cute"

@surprise1964

4 жыл бұрын

Hungarian: Baby is your cute

FUN FACT(S) : The "ph" sound come from Greek They have a bilabial fricative, which is an "f" like sound produced when you blow - like blowing out a candle, except for the puffy cheeks. So, whenever you see a word that has "ph" in it, its from Greek (ancient Greek) eg: Philosophy, The reason for the Ps in some words like: "psyche" is because, again; in Greek, they had a sound where you pronounced "s" and "p" together (like calling a cat or mouse) 1 more thing: the silent "gh" in loads of words used to be pronounced like an "x", but not an english "x" ; its the sound you make when gathering saliva to spit , but only the first part of that sound and with no liquid in your mouth

Ollie you are a beautiful and brilliant one. Please keep up with your amazing creativeness. I always get so cheered up by your bright questions and remarks, always making my days. Love ya

Josh: puts his hand up while saying the world 'hail'. Me, a German: ......oh no.

@schmerci69

4 жыл бұрын

Die Saxen: Oh yeah

@ReijiAoeGirl666

4 жыл бұрын

@@schmerci69 :D

@andreeamotoc6763

4 жыл бұрын

Fuck Hydra

@Cherry_Jelly

4 жыл бұрын

@Cat Lady google a word "heil"

@andreeamotoc6763

4 жыл бұрын

What the heck I don't remember replying.....

In Europe we're kinda "forced" to learn English in school from a very young age. I started talking private classes (something really common at least in Greece where I live) in English when I was a first grader at elementary. So most of the teenagers and young adults nowadays are basically fluent in both English and obviously their native language. That's the reason why I'm not that impressed by all these things you guys are talking about, but I still laughed so hard, this video was so relatable

@PoloElefante

5 жыл бұрын

My thought is that if you start a language at an earlier age, and learn to speak it aloud rather than written down, the spelling issue won't matter so much. We all learn a language before we can read, right? I'm English and when I went to Cyprus for a month without having learnt any greek, whenever I saw anything written down - a signpost for example - my brain would try to work out what it said but as the letters are a bit different I would have to estimate. I could say "efkaristo" but not be able to write it down :D

@livie611

5 жыл бұрын

I'm 13 and fluent because I grew up listening to English because of movies, songs, youtube... I never really learned anything from my English lessons at school oof (I'm Swedish)

@BlackHoleSpain

5 жыл бұрын

@@livie611 Imagine having to learn english 40 years ago without ANY english audio source at all. No movies, no TV (everything dubbed), and no Internet.

@livie611

5 жыл бұрын

​@@BlackHoleSpain You wouldn't be able to speak it well because you wouldn't know how to pronounce things since you never got an audio example of it.

@pastelwolf9832

5 жыл бұрын

I'm from norway and here we learn english in first grade som I'm basically fluent in english

I e subscribed for rev Chris and his personality, but have been bindge watching all videos and the channel is actually full of good hearted and nice people. And here ai am watching a video from 4 years ago. Thanks to all involved to have this lovely channel, that is so different from everything else I've seen, and is simply Jolly🍀

5:52 Well, that's where they got welsh..epic!!

한국에도 연패라는 단어가 두가지로 쓰이는데 연달아 우승하다, 연달아 패배하다 두가지의 의미가 있어서 미치겠어욬ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ이겼다는거야 졌다는거야ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

@user-xg8zh9qi9o

4 жыл бұрын

예전에는 한자로 표기했죠 지금은 안하지만..

@user-pb6fl5xd1d

4 жыл бұрын

요즘은 그래서 연승 연패 이리 사용하는듯해요 제 주위에서 겜할때는요 ㅎㅎ

@user-rv2sk5ef6e

4 жыл бұрын

연패!! 연패..

@user-sb7hq9wg9y

4 жыл бұрын

좀 다른 의미지만 어릴때 연중무휴랑 연중휴무랑이 헷갈렸는데..

@user-fr5su3qf4s

4 жыл бұрын

연달아 우승하다의 연패는 그래도 다른 조어들이랑 써서 알기 쉬운데.. 몇관왕이라거나 하는..

영국사람이 이러면 어떡합니까...ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 그치만 모든 언어가 알고보면 다 이런식인듯 깊이 파고들수록 어려움;

@icecreamcowboyz9466

6 жыл бұрын

오지현 i know right!

@user-nh3fp8ni2e

6 жыл бұрын

영어가 사실 유럽에서 가장 쉬운언어... 불어 공부해보니 100년전에 프랑스가 아니라 영국이 패권잡은게 고마워졌음... 초등학교 때부터 학교에서 불어 배웠을 생각하면 진짜 와... ㄹㅇ 시제 ㅈ같음

@leelee-rd9zz

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-nh3fp8ni2e 지금 우리가 영어배우고 있는건 미국때문에 그런거 아닌가..애초에 교과서에서 배우는 발음도 전형적인 미국악센트잖아

@user-nh3fp8ni2e

5 жыл бұрын

@@leelee-rd9zz 그건 미국 영향 진하게 받은 우리나라하고 일본이 그렇고 일단 유럽에선 다 영국식 가르치고, 유엔 공식 언어도 미국식 영어가 아니라 영국식 영어임. 싱가포르에서는 영국식 영어 써야지, 미국식 영어 쓰면 이상하게 본다고함. 추가) 출처가 나무위키라서 신뢰성은 높지 않지만 세계 반절은 영국식, 반절은 미국식으로 공부한다고 함

i love english. i could never explain myself correctly in my native language.. with english you can combine so many tenses and it will still make sense. its awesome!

4:27 Also the British English spelling of hiccup is “hiccough”, even though no one uses it really any more 😂

@TheGeographyWatch

3 жыл бұрын

@@missmuffet4937 It is also spelt tire in American English

Two students, James and John were taking an English test and had been asked to describe a man who had cold in the past. John writes " The man had a cold " while James writes " The man had had a cold." In the end John's answer was marked incorrect while James' was marked correct. So to summarize - *James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.*

@gebruikersnaamHannah

4 жыл бұрын

What the actual fuck? Lmao

@kimkoya3882

4 жыл бұрын

basically

@chrissydimos9751

4 жыл бұрын

When you thought spelling and pronounciation was hard, and then grammar enters the chat

@seventeenshome7691

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@whedonobsessed

3 жыл бұрын

I think I just had had had had had had had had had an aneurysm

So my favorite thing about those words that have two opposite meanings (contranyms) is that historical linguists best explanation of them is that the sarcastic use of the word became so commonly used that the word took on an additional meaning (also an explanation for why the positive meaning often precedes the negative)

@blammmed

6 жыл бұрын

JenaPugliese this is the best comment

An interesting time to get recommended

Thank you for this one! Best regards from Sweden

Ive never heard Egregious used in a positive context

@drS5

5 жыл бұрын

I've never heard egregious used in any way.😂

@zhengen94

5 жыл бұрын

Never heard and used and know what egregious means until I'm 24 now......

@rossellaparisi6879

5 жыл бұрын

In italian it only have a positive meaning, it is like an honorific. Like "Egregious Sir Smith" in a letter. But it is an "ancient" word, no longer used in common language.

@hannahmillard9748

5 жыл бұрын

The positive definition is archaic. Probably, (and I'm not joking) because our culture is so steeped in sarcasm, we can flip meanings by ironically using the word too much.

@funnygeeks8126

5 жыл бұрын

That's egregious!

Jolly : Why English is the MOST CONFUSING Language!!? Chinese : *Am I a joke to you?*

@thatguyben7754

4 жыл бұрын

M4sked Chinese is actually incredibly easy as a language. It looks scary and all, but the grammar is really easy. Once you get the writing and pronunciation down, which is more of a skill, it’s not difficult. It’s not confusing, just a pain in the ass

@M4skedBoi

4 жыл бұрын

@@thatguyben7754 yes remembering more than 2000 letters feeling like 2 billion would be fun and all

@thatguyben7754

4 жыл бұрын

M4sked Yeah, the letters and written Chinese are a bitch, but it’s not a confusing language. It’s just a case of memorisation, the grammar is fairly simple and there’s not many exceptions, so it’s not confusing. Just annoying.

@abrahamtan1093

4 жыл бұрын

@@thatguyben7754 well pronouncing it is hard. When you are trying to say "4（四）" you actually might say "die （死）". Another is when you say you want a “dumpling （水饺）“ but pronounce it wrong you say can i sleep （睡觉）.

@victorlimpearce1887

4 жыл бұрын

@@thatguyben7754 There are poems from the old Dynasty times and it was shown in my syllabus, and the whole fucking poem has tons of meaning in 1 word, which can mean different things which depends on the context, so why not you go and try and find 古文 and understand the whole story they wrote there if you understand Chinese, I can guarantee you it's way harder than it is expected of you don't learn it properly

I remember one that was: James and John were discussing with their teacher wether had or had had was better used in the sentence. James, while John had had “had had” had had “had”, “had had” had had the better impact on the teacher. 🥴

@xatryalaxamana

3 жыл бұрын

What

As a austrian person who learned English in school, I always thought English was easy. Now you made me believe I'm a genius, thank you for that😂

while in china. 长长长长长长长,长长长长长长长 Zhǎng cháng zhǎng cháng zhǎngzhǎng cháng; cháng zhǎng cháng zhǎng chángcháng zhǎng. 'Grow long, grow long, continue to grow long;

@sadamiamani

4 жыл бұрын

That's just unfortunate

@Aurora-Palace

4 жыл бұрын

Whelp

@DonJxr

4 жыл бұрын

Chinese (Mandarin) has tons of cases like these similar to English, which also make sense why it is so hard to learn it. On top of memorizing 3000+ characters...

@user-kc8fd7ts5m

4 жыл бұрын

Serbia Gore gore gore gore I really dont know how to translate this

@crybabysarmy2350

4 жыл бұрын

I'm Chinese and I can't even talk in my language cuz it's so hard

One of my favourite memes that's like the Will Smith one is from Good Mythical Morning and its Link in park Link in park with Linkin Park(band) Link in park with Linkin Park in Lincoln Park(place) Link in park with Linkin Park in Lincoln Park watching Lincoln park(Abraham Lincoln parking a car) Link in park with Linkin Park in Lincoln Park watching Lincoln park a Lincoln(car)

@lauu6100

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao your username hahaha

@-TMHNSN-

4 жыл бұрын

@@lauu6100 hello there fellow ARMYs!

@susiee25

4 жыл бұрын

Shit

@seventeenshome7691

3 жыл бұрын

We all army..... But you explained the sentence very well

Finding out Ollie is dyslexic like myself I have a lot more respect for him. Especially knowing how far he has come with learning Korean. I really struggle with languages but would love to know Korean and Japanese

Speaking as a geek who loves languages and has been studying a few - Japanese, Spanish, Korean - I absolutely love this particular video and want more, please.

English: I'm the most confusing language. French: Hold my baguette. German: Hold my sausage. Slovene: laughing quietly in the background Seriously guys, English is the easiest, believe me

@morroghaiky6580

4 жыл бұрын

Czech: Hold my beer.

@crunchyandmagnificent5646

4 жыл бұрын

@@morroghaiky6580 Oi mate, I personally found Slovene harder, because of all the Dvojina stuff happening there. Gotta give Czech a try tho

@MarieRog420

4 жыл бұрын

Latin: already dead because its to hard

@thatguyben7754

4 жыл бұрын

English is up there with being the most confusing. Like, just look at my last sentence. Basic English is a piece of cake, but perfecting the language truly is an art. The spelling and strange sentence structures (later on) are difficult for a non-native to learn

@waniskandar4612

4 жыл бұрын

@@thatguyben7754 I don't know.. out of all languages I feel like English is probably one of the easiest to learn. I know most of my friends say English is hard but that's the only language they speak. I have been learning English for 5 months now. I think I speak pretty well.

"This exceeding trifling witling, considering ranting criticizing concerning adopting fitting wording being exhibiting transcending learning, was displaying, not withstanding ridiculing, surpassing boasting swelling reasoning, respecting correcting erring writing, and touching detecting deceiving arguing during debating." The above is from an old grammar book showing the versatility of the suffix "-ing". A more recent sentence where every word is longer by one letter than the preceding word: "I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications' incomprehensibleness."

@Sothey727

4 жыл бұрын

holy heck

@iterumconare4258

4 жыл бұрын

Sweet Jesus that's wierd. What's worse is I understand it fully, although it is discombobulating

As an ex-English teacher in a third world country and had tried to explain to my students about these issues, I appreciate both you acknowledging this. Thank You!

I came here like 4 years later and omg the set has changed so much

For all the people saying English is easy that may be true, but the point of the video is saying that it's one of the most confusing they never said it was hard

@corruptangel6793

5 жыл бұрын

Who the fuck is saying English is easy?! I'm American born and raised and holy hell this shit's ridiculous

@joestiensmiet3312

5 жыл бұрын

Except for the part where they literally said that english is hard within even the first 15 seconds of the video...

@sandcastle1128

5 жыл бұрын

I speak 4 languages. In all honesty, English is the easiest

@brosplit

5 жыл бұрын

It is not hard, indeed. The key is to memorize & not to put logic in the English syntax.

@Anonymous-td9fl

5 жыл бұрын

@@corruptangel6793 Japanese is harder than English. Even japanese people doesn't know the language fully.

When I was young my father said to me: "Knowledge is Power....Francis Bacon" I understood it as "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon". For more than a decade I wondered over the meaning of the second part and what was the surreal linkage between the two? If I said the quote to someone, "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon" they nodded knowingly. Or someone might say, "Knowledge is power" and I'd finish the quote "France is Bacon" and they wouldn't look at me like I'd said something very odd but thoughtfully agree. I did ask a teacher what did "Knowledge is power, France is bacon" mean and got a full 10 minute explanation of the Knowledge is power bit but nothing on "France is bacon". When I prompted further explanation by saying "France is Bacon?" in a questioning tone I just got a "yes". at 12 I didn't have the confidence to press it further. I just accepted it as something I'd never understand. It wasn't until years later I saw it written down that the penny dropped.

@hmsj05

4 жыл бұрын

OMG this made me laugh so much thank you lol

@DisciplineandPunish

4 жыл бұрын

Mayako S arigato Mayako san!

@wootaennis

4 жыл бұрын

Seyo lmao🤣🤣🤣

@sanjanaprakash747

4 жыл бұрын

I died laughing 😂😂😂 Didn't you ever question it?

@DisciplineandPunish

4 жыл бұрын

@@sanjanaprakash747 This is a famous joke story. lol

Excellent video - please make more of these types of videos.

I'm actually so happy to see that as a non-english native speaker I in fact get it and understand all these words. Cool to finally see that I've really learned a lot in english (as when you study a language sometimes you don't see when you evolve)

I feel so bad for anyone learning English right now. To speak it is one thing, to understand it is a completely different thing. Hell I don't even understand english rules half the time and English is my first language

@forgivemenot1

6 жыл бұрын

Agree, it's like here's the one page of rules to learn English and now here's 5 pages of exceptions to those rules.

@wonpilspinksweaterismyjam7880

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah. English is my third language. I can speak it and understand when someone talks to me but seriously, I can't understand rules. But well, French is more difficult even if it's my first language.

@giannapedroza1986

6 жыл бұрын

What are you guys all talking about? English has no rules * hyperbole *.

@wonpilspinksweaterismyjam7880

6 жыл бұрын

Gigi Roza 😂

@giannapedroza1986

6 жыл бұрын

Nano Galk I’m nearly 15 and I couldn’t tell the difference between “where” and “were” till about a month ago. The reason I’m in honors but have never gotten 5/5 on a single essay. The reason I have a love-hate relationship with autocorrect. The reason I sound stupid when I ask my friends how to spell “famous” or “laugh”. The reason my Mom used to torture me over the summer with spelling practice. The English language has been out for my soul since the day I was born.

Reminds me of "a ship-shipping ship shipping shipping ships" 😂😂

@kyoxtohru112

5 жыл бұрын

what kind of demonic sentences is that I think it's worse than "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" ........... nevermind both are demonic.

@thegivingtree887

5 жыл бұрын

kyoxtohru112 what’s that sentence even supposed to mean dhdn

@2011lock

5 жыл бұрын

or "a ship-shipping ship, shipping ship-shipping ships"

@Munggoon

5 жыл бұрын

LuL

When I was young , two words that constantly boggled my mind were: Effect and Affect. I never knew which one was which and constantly chose the wrong one. Until my English teacher taught us to think of it this way: the 'e' in effect stands everyone and the 'a' in affects stands for you *alone*

This is so good Low key I love there videos

"How do you even begin to learn that?" I DON'T KNOW HOW I DID IT. IT WAS A MISTAKE.

@hyunjinsfoot

5 жыл бұрын

SAME

차 (tea) 차 (car) 말 (horse) 말(word) 위(top) 위(stomach) 눈(snow) 눈(eyes) 배 (ship) 배(pear) 배 (stomach)

@kimkoya3882

5 жыл бұрын

Scar M WHY IS THEIR TWO STOMACHS?!

thanks, that is a nice encouragement

As a Norwegian being somewhat "fluent" in English, this gave me a lot of confidence in learning other languages, thank you!

English: I'm the most confusing language! French: As if! Czech: *Laughs menancingly in the dark*

@ilonarytkonen4496

5 жыл бұрын

Finnish: *looks around the corner and giggles gently but evil*

@eggani3607

5 жыл бұрын

I’m half czech but I think my mum gave up teaching it me when I was younger lol

@emmapdb4531

5 жыл бұрын

Some of my Czech friends tried to reach me some Czech... I gave up after a few words 😂😂

@chans_babycurls

5 жыл бұрын

@@ilonarytkonen4496 Omg yes! And hello fellow finnish person XD

@vetaniellecalya1662

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, so relatable. When you catch up with Czech pronunciation, the ř letter will take it on a whole new level. As a person, whose native language is Czech and Slovak, knows English on a B2 level and learned also French for seven years, I can't tell that just one language is the most confusing. Every language has its own problems. In Englist it's the irregularity of writing and pronunciation. In French that's mostly the pronunciation, silent letters or binding the words together because of some strange rules and also the particles un/une/des or le/la/les. In Slovak and Czech it's just the fact that they are both almost the same so Czech person can really easily understand a Slovak person. Czech has also a special letter called ř which sound like something between r and š or ž. But what is really hard in Czech or Slovak language isn't the pronunciation or spelling but total irregularity of grammar rules. They have more exceptions that actual rules. For practicaly every rule you can find at least five exceptions. Also the context is so important and Czechs with Slovaks love irony and sarcasm, so you have to be aware of that and don't take things too personally 'cause they can be told as a joke. There's probably more, especially in French but I don't know French that good to be able to tell you more. Hope you found my comment interesting and you learned something new. I also apologise in advance if I wrote something incorrect about the languages and bye.

"All the faith that she had had, had had no effect on the outcome of the situation."

@dracomancer6237

5 жыл бұрын

I hate myself for having read that perfectly on the first try.

@anonymousloner4480

5 жыл бұрын

@@dracomancer6237 the comma definitely helps

@HighwayRamos

5 жыл бұрын

Grammatically pushing the friendship. Although it did remind me to make an appointment with my optometrist.

@crstph

5 жыл бұрын

i can do you one better: The teacher was grading two papers: one said "she had a hard time" and the other said "she had had a hard time." Between "had" and "had had," "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.

@nickvliet4614

5 жыл бұрын

@@dracomancer6237 you are a god. I'm American and it still took me three tries.

DYSLEXIC GANG!!!!! seriously though, who ever named 'dyslexia' is trying to be really annoying

Watching this as eleven at night, I yawned at the exact same time Ollie did. I feel you, dude.

조쒸형 홁쒸 횽또 핞꾺어 앎호 읽읅쑤 있쏘여? 꿍끎해여~~

@Alice-rv2sg

5 жыл бұрын

찒쨣류 꿍꿂해여

@user-mu3mg1tf9n

5 жыл бұрын

밎췮넒둘줠릻만낾

@antoniobald1

5 жыл бұрын

한굴 망치는 이런 글... 껒여

@user-boobooo

5 жыл бұрын

읽꼑뭫얐갳욱끿넭

@M_________one

5 жыл бұрын

@@yeonjj1223 읹정읽옄ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

영어유머를 들으면 처음에는 뭐지??이러다가 알게되면 어이없어서 웃게되죠ㅋㅋㅋ

Dyslexia’s hard Ollie, but I’m sure that’s why you’re so brilliant and creative! I listened to a book called The Dyslexic Advantage which I really appreciated and highly recommend to anyone struggling with dyslexia (although the audiobook is pretty bad ironically)

You can be overwhelmed or underwhelmed...can you just be whelmed?

Yoo Have you seen that meme of will smith smithing a little statue of will smith? It was like " will will smith smith will smith? " "yes, will smith will smith will smith"

@fay-kk4tt

4 жыл бұрын

Yea like that Yo Yo Yo!

@karna5998

4 жыл бұрын

@Bakoobie Thanks For Understanding Intellectual Individual.

I think what really makes the English language so confusing is the fact that the slang and word usage changes so rapidly now that people who learned formal English have a hard time understanding unformal conversations

@clsmithcs74

6 жыл бұрын

Paris fully Even the natives get it wrong lol

English people: Omg, english is so confusing *Smiles in Polish* *Laughs in Arabic* *Has an asthma attack in Mandarin* Edit: Stop adding on, these are top three hardest in the world. No, hindi isn't harder than polish. Neither is german, french, russian, or any language YOU speak.

@d4n737

4 жыл бұрын

@M E *facepalm*

@sadianadim6892

4 жыл бұрын

I’m fluent in Danish, English and Arabic. Arabic is my first language, yet still the hardest tbh. My spelling sucks! So yes, I would nominate Arabic to be one of the worst/hardest to learn

@edwardfad4542

4 жыл бұрын

@@sadianadim6892 my native language is arabic too, and its officially the 2nd hardest language in the world (after chinese)

@sadianadim6892

4 жыл бұрын

David Atallah Well guess I’ll never learn mandarin either

@maanyasaluja8043

4 жыл бұрын

cries in hindi, dies in punjabi

So humble...

배에서 배를 먹었더니 배가부르다

아니 왜 뜻에 반대되는 뜻도 넣는거짘ㅋㅋㅋㅋ새로 단어만들기 귀찮았낰ㄲㅋㅋ

@vernadetes

6 жыл бұрын

하지만 그건 패가 한자가 아예 두가지 다른 것(敗, 覇)이기 때문이라는 합리적인 이유가 있긴 하죠.

@JN_HARU

6 жыл бұрын

천대웅 한국에서 한자가 아직 쓰이는 유일한 이유

@hyunsun1953

6 жыл бұрын

가관도 약간 반대되는 두가지 의미가 있죠 ㅋㅋㅋ

@user-sv9si6gm8m

6 жыл бұрын

illiam9623 w 헐 몰랐네요 연속해서 우승하는데 왜 연패했다고 하지? 하고 생각했는데..ㅋㅋ

@avrillavender

6 жыл бұрын

아마 반어법으로 사용하다가 뜻이 굳어진 경우 아닐까요?

this is the motto i held onto growing up learning English as a second language "if you feel like the sentence sounds right, then its correct la"

I had looked up this video regarding the most complex word, as in it's variety in meaning and complexity of usage of the word. In the comments there, i found this stunning gem "The word 'set' is the runner up while the word 'run' has set the record."