This is why i love my language, and many asian languages. Because what's written is what's spoken

@dannyjorde2677

Жыл бұрын

Yes dummy, but Spanish is far easier than Asian languages and also does that

@belle_pomme

Жыл бұрын

@@dannyjorde2677 Spanish is easier than Asian languages?? Who told you that? How difficult a language to a person depends on their native language and languages they already know. I tell you, Spanish 'unnecessary' verb conjugations are so damn 'easy'. My 'hard' language doesn't even have tenses. We are not dumb to know something happened in the past when it's so obvious from context.

@Matzu-Music

9 ай бұрын

@@dannyjorde2677 braindead take

@RizalBudiLeksono

7 ай бұрын

Wait until you find out about Tibetan, Burmese, and Thai spelling system.

HAHA, this video feels AWFULLY familiar!! Sneaky sneaky.

@TijmensAviation

4 жыл бұрын

Sad even big news channels are copying hard work of others right now

@erdyantodwinugrohozheng

4 жыл бұрын

Wow.... Langfocus is here? So close like you but they're adding Americans changing the English spellings after Independence of the US.

@mriz

3 жыл бұрын

Don't be sad, you must be proud even them not give credit to you. I knew this is yours

@alexandrenunesdeoliveira9417

3 жыл бұрын

Still, Paul, as today your video has over 700.000 views and this one doesn't reach 40.000...

@GeneRauXxX

2 жыл бұрын

Oh really, I thought why am i enjoying this video, turned out this is your video concept @Langfocus

2:04 Yoda was speaking English better than us.

@isaacevilman7586

3 жыл бұрын

I mean... the reason Yoda speaks like that is because that’s how Common was spoken when he was taught. He’s just using the old word order because he’s so old.

@petertrebilco9430

3 жыл бұрын

Yoda even speaks better than us do...

English is a combination of Latin, Greek, French, German, and gibberish

@funDAYsmiling

4 жыл бұрын

Doctor Crusher Also, Dansk of JUTLAND, where my mom's family is from, but yes, FRENCH, and I believe it is of utmost importance that French must be learned in order to fully comprehend English.

@AzarelHoward

4 жыл бұрын

Latin is actually more important in the understanding of the majority of the English language. Primarily because so much of our vocabulary comes from Latin roots, even if it came via French, Greek, etc. A lot of the words I just used follow Latin prefix and suffix rules just for example.

@776281

4 жыл бұрын

And Italian, Russian and so on, including some Japanese. Although with the Russian the words have a different meaning, we have borrowed a Russian word for a concept we did not previously have a word for. The now missing letters such as zog also explain wild difference between spelling and pronunciation. Centuries of increasing laziness explain others, big chunks of place names are no longer pronounced.

@BoxTunnel

3 жыл бұрын

@@funDAYsmiling Disagree. I fully comprehend English and use the language every day, but my French is schoolboy level at best. You also spelt Mum wrong. Note capital letter in Mum.

@htoodoh5770

3 жыл бұрын

@@BoxTunnel Not everyone comprehend. You are just bringing antedote

My daughter was reading/writing in german at age 5... after learning the alpabet it was easy to sound out words. She shed many tears when this spelling technique did.nt work anymore at school... found it hard to believe that double O could be pronounced U... etc etc... i observed her trying to make sense of the differences between the pronounciation of idividual letters and then those letters embedded into words. Gradually she "gave up" trying to m ake sense of it and just learned words by memorising... and "had to believe" what teachers said the spelling was.... it was heartbreaking to see the natural "logic" being re-educated and replaced by a completely illogical and senseless grammar system where the teacher was always right even though the childs natural logic phonetic sense was otherwise... i believe this to be a big contributor to may bright children actually "failing" the school system...broken minds that just get told a double O is a U and a U is an A etc etc... quite a waste of valuable primary school time where they could have learned one or two other languages rather than memorise obscure spelling in their own mother tounge... sad really...?!

@AzarelHoward

4 жыл бұрын

There's actually a decent amount of logic behind the why's and wherefores of how and why words are pronounced. Sadly most schools can't be arsed to properly teach students of the language how the characters themselves interact to determine the pronunciation and instead resort to learning by writ. That being said. English is far from consistent TBH. The fact that you have to look at the letters before _and_ after a vowel to ascertain which pronunciation rule to follow is a little crazy, I'll admit. But it's also the reason pieces of so many different languages have been assimilated into common use on the daily. We just transliterate a word and if we don't have a way to represent the pronunciation we create a new rule, or mash a couple of existing ones together. Ain't great but it works. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Commandeering X for the sch sound in Chinese words is a great example.

@mohammedjalloh7658

4 жыл бұрын

Clive Tillman Grammatical Gender =/= Natural Gender

@DeToxik

4 жыл бұрын

Ther iz no roolz nor laujik, just ekskyusez

@Miraj1006

3 жыл бұрын

@@DeToxik it took me 3 tries to realise you're trying to say excuses

@SofiaBerruxSubs

3 жыл бұрын

I dont think its sad...

I have to agree that the English language is difficult to learn due to "silent characters". Just think how much more beneficial to spell the word as it sounds. The benefits would be more students understanding the English language and writing would also be easier. Some words like "colour" , if written as it sounds, "color", as spelt and written by Americans would help many students. Elephant as spelt in English would read as "Elefant" if written as it sounds. People who migrate to Australia would find learning English would be much easier. I won't see a change in life time.

@arrgghh1555

4 жыл бұрын

kula

@SofiaBerruxSubs

3 жыл бұрын

They should try the french language if they like silent letters

@illogical1421

2 жыл бұрын

More like kuler and elefent, but yes, even as a non native speaker I've been quite obsessed with this and making my own spelling has been fun and helped fix my pronunciation to extent, I assume it would help me fix more if I go deeper into it. I can't believe I've been speaking English for nearly 20 years and I still mispronounce a lot of words.

If inglish words ar spel layk dis den awer layfs wil bi mor isiyer. By the to understand the sentence only use short sound vowels.

Other European languages used to have spellings that made no sense as well, but over decades (or centuries, in the case of Spanish), they all had successful spelling reforms to regularize them. The recent reforms (the past 40 years or so) have been far less successful though, with the now-educated populace (and media) often resisting the changes and accusing the relevant academies of bastardizing their languages. So I think it is too late to regularize English spelling now, since nowadays everyone thinks spelling is immutable. Maybe a century ago, it would have been easier.

Don't get me started on the archaic "I before E…" non-rule.

@kayseek1248

4 жыл бұрын

JamesDavy2009 and the whole “don’t misuse literally” even though *literally* no one uses literally like that.

@GameFuMaster

4 жыл бұрын

@@kayseek1248 a good number of people (at least online) like to misuse literally.

@lnk3503

3 жыл бұрын

It means "me" before everyone Else. The teachers show us that by example. It's an important lesson about narcissism.

@droptimistic

3 жыл бұрын

I before E except after C and some exceptions

@poptartbumblebeepoop9540

3 жыл бұрын

Inuitesh malaks’smahl aahlii’mikkzalo

This is great, so far. English is insane. I have learned a little Spanish. Every letter is pronounced the same every time. Double letters are pronounced differently. It's interesting.

@lorrie2878

4 жыл бұрын

@lingo starr darn, maybe right. I pronounce it woahaka. With throat, lol! I am just a white lady from San Diego and Arizona!

@lorrie2878

4 жыл бұрын

@lingo starr thanks.

hehe I remember being a little girl and seeing the spelling bee thing in some movies, but they were dubbed in Spanish so I couldn't understand why that was a thing...until I started learning English at school 😅

We can *technically* blame this on the great voeel shift.

Some Asian languages (except Chinese, Korean etc) the words are spelt exactly like they're spoken, like in Hindi, Marathi, Japanese

@sleepyexe644

3 жыл бұрын

this is why hindi is pretty easy to learn, you just need to learn the (equivalent of) vowels and (equivalent of) consonants and things related to that and you can read anything in that language (of course you'll need to know what they mean but anyways). the grammar and gender of words is a little difficult to memorise but that requires listening and speaking colloquial hindi.

@blackpurple9163

3 жыл бұрын

@@sleepyexe644 that's with every other language, listening to natives speak is the best way to learn a language, even better if you (learner) talk with them and they guide you through the language, you'll learn faster than a polyglot

@ynntari2775

Жыл бұрын

Except in Japanese you have Kanji, which doesn't reflect any bit of the pronounciation whatsoever and the same Kanji can have a dozen different pronounciations depending on context.

@blackpurple9163

Жыл бұрын

@@ynntari2775 unless they're written in furigana, though that's rare but it is what it is, I'd rather learn kanji and have absolute faith in what I'm reading that to learn English and get frustrated in how the same word can be pronounced or spelt differently even though I've been learning the language since childhood (neither of those are my mother-tongue though)

@ynntari2775

Жыл бұрын

Words can be pronounced differently? You mean accents? Japanese has lots of those.

I must say. I have only just started watching your videos but they are great!!

i love these videos!! april is awesome

I like the way our words look, and it’s cool that we’ve kept history in our words

Hello professor Thank you so much for your help and advice. All the best

Beat episode yet!!!

A word that does not make sense is colonel which is pronounced as ‘kernel.’ Like wtf?🙄

@GeneRauXxX

2 жыл бұрын

After these years, I have now learned how to pronounce colonel. Really wtf is that?

@mehdila9521

Жыл бұрын

It pronounces like: krnl😂😂😂 english is so weird

@mehdila9521

Жыл бұрын

Congratulations😂

Depending on the root of the word the -ise and -ize is actually very important and distinguishes between the verb and noun forms of certain words. Whilst yes with others it's "trivial" usually because said words only have one function in grammar.

@ynntari2775

Жыл бұрын

I use -ise for everything, the corrector sometimes disagrees with me.

"Writing systems are a secondary form of language - they reflect speech" - what genius said this? No knowledge of Saussure, no knowledge of Deconstruction - is this a high schoo student??

English language is like the English legal system, it relies on living instruments. It also has the same pros and cons and the legal system.

Well, at least you can "kinda read" the English words. If you still want to argue with me, argue with my Japanese Duolingo sensei, where you can't read anything because you just can't 😱

Enuff would be enough for me.

@zarthy4169

4 жыл бұрын

Dani de Janeiro For me it would be inuf.

I wish English speakers knew the difference between o: and oʊ, e: and eɪ

"Food" and "boot" don't have the same vowel sound in my Canadian accent. "Boot" is a lot shorter and you don't round the lips at all.

would i pass my spelling past if i spelt like that?

05:38. Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary featured Bible verses among it's definitions and examples of word usage. Proving that there was no separation of 'church and state', in the classroom. Subsequent editions had the references removed by unscrupulous publishers once they bought the rights.

English spelling may be difficult But don't forget the french one les oiseaux chantent une bonne chanson aujourd'hui

That example "ghoti" example of Alexander J. Ellis, did it intentionally for nonsense because "gh" /g/ comes at the beginning mostly in foreign-related words, "ti" /ʃ/ comes only at the middle of the word and never at last.

“English is not a [straightforward] language, it's three languages wearing a trench coat pretending to be one.”

@H-TownGamer

28 күн бұрын

But I understood you perfectly, it’s just a very complex language

Did Paul from Langfocus influence this video? Credit would have been great. Bibliography please.

Just introduce more letters for the sounds.

I read about most of this on wiki a long time ago, wiki for the win!

even with this English is one of the most easier languages to learn

@illogical1421

2 жыл бұрын

I have to agree because I can confirm that, which is ironic, if English had ton of diacritics for example it would've been impossible for me to learn it lol

@thanhdohuu9473

Жыл бұрын

Only easy if your native language is close to English. Otherwise, it's unnecessarily difficult.

@Jack-ht3fr

Жыл бұрын

​@@thanhdohuu9473 no, it is easy specially because the verbs are easy to conjugate, pronunciation is a little inconsistent, but movies and songs in English are everywhere, you get a lot of exposure to the right pronunciation before starting to study the language

@thanhdohuu9473

Жыл бұрын

@@Jack-ht3fr there are lots of languages where verbs do not conjugate so learners do not have to unnecessarily memorize several different forms. There are also several languages that have consistent spelling and pronunciation. Vietnamese is an example. And about exposure, depending on where a person lives, they may not get any exposure to English.

@dannyjorde2677

Жыл бұрын

@@thanhdohuu9473 That's not true at all. English is the easiest language to learn worldwide, no matter where you are from. An Italian will find English easier than Spanish, for example.

English is the easiest language to pick up on the street, but it becomes almost impossible for an overseas migrant with another native tongue to learn the written language to perfection, unless we are Grammar Freaks and chose to become professional bullies in self defence! As if Natives would care?

Ultimately, the correct spelling for everyone is the one without the redline on the monitor. 😜

@MrLunithy

4 жыл бұрын

lol

@veloboy

4 жыл бұрын

Which means it is different for everyone.

@Kanal7Indonesia

4 жыл бұрын

AMEN

@Kromiball

3 жыл бұрын

Oltimetly, dhe korekt spelling for everiwan is dhe wan withaut dhe redlain on dhe moniter. 😜

Fjord, Kaput, Chauffer.. all of these words arent English yet we kept the spelling

1:10 why wasn't english writing system reformed?

I think you have spanish, korean or other languages that spell how it sounds where english used to be spelled how it sounded and now its more like a legal system where there is a correct way and its harder to spell, even forgetting words or how to say things. To go back to original language you would look into Hebrew, greek, latin, the Geneva Bible and king james version bible show old english.

Wait, you don't pronounce the b in "dumb"? I've sounded so dum saying that word

@dannyjorde2677

Жыл бұрын

The letter is silent BUT you do make a stress sound in the letter M, so it kinda sounds like you're about to pronounce the B.

excellent work

Why is everything being so affected by the printing press , I mean in countries like India we didn't have anything like that, but the words itself were defined so strictly with transformation that it sounded just as it is written

its because its a smash up of all the greatest, an you know what that means, if you can't learn it you dont know it

@briantyson6138

4 жыл бұрын

Eye dount undersand wit ewe arrgh git aht.

I created my own spelling system that matches the way the English language is pronounced, here is an example: *ORIGINAL* _A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication. The political legitimacy and authority of the monarch may vary from restricted and largely symbolic (constitutional monarchy), to fully autocratic (absolute monarchy), and can span across executive, legislative, and judicial domains._ *MY PROPOSAL* _Ei manarkee iz ei form uv guvṛnmunt in wich ei pṛsun, dhu manark, iz hed uv steit for laif or until ạbdikeishun. Dhu pulitukul lujitumusee eund uthorutee uv dhu manark mei veree frum reestriktid eund larjlee simbalik (kanstutooshunul manarkee), too fụlee otukrạtik (ạbsuloot manarkee), eund keun speun ukros igzekyutiv, lejusleitiv, eund joodishul doụmeinz._

@Writer_Productions_Map

5 ай бұрын

You just reinvented Dutch lmao

makes sense to me, except i refuse to spell jail with a stupid g.....

An even bigger problem is that this isn't even etymological... it's ridiculous

English spellin was standardized based on how most literate people wrote in the middle of 18th century. This is not how they spoke and their spelling was inconsistent. Take for instance words ending with -ceed/-cede Only "exceed", "proceed", and "succeed" are written this way. Every other word: "accede" "concede" "intercede" "recede" "retrocede" "secede"

@aichujohnson8444

2 жыл бұрын

It is not how they spoke, but what was in vogue at the time.

@aichujohnson8444

2 жыл бұрын

Samuel Johnson (UK) and Noah Webster (US) merely standardized these spelling tendencies.

That’s right, English has sucked up words/sounds from all over the place. The more you read, and the wider your reading, the better you will understand. Why is this news ABC. This info was taught to us at school; but then that was back in the 60s........

Yes i agree English spelling don't make sense i love my language you write how you speak .Why is no one trying to make simple as we speaking

and yet we communicate

...and the effect of stress and weak forms...

@6.03. Was Noah Webster still living when aluminium entered the English?

At 5:50 in the video; In the Englifh alphabet there are twenty five fingle characters, that ftand as reprefentatives of certain founds. Hahahaha! the person that standardized spelling Sounded like He had a Lisssspppp..... His S was spelled using a F?

we need a new alphabet , with slavic languages like the macedionian language how you say a word is how you spell it . no two words the same , no double letters or silent letters or sea , see two words that sound the same .

There are only 33 distinct phonemes in General American English and a complete alphabet is quite doable. See my next comment. The way you get from 44 to 34 is by eliminating the waste of characters on diphthongs and spelling them out instead.

@7MPhonemicEnglish

6 ай бұрын

7M Phonemic Alphabet: [uppercase]: H, U, Ŋ, G, I, N, V, ᐱ, ⴵ D, W, E, Ћ, Z, R, P, T K, L, Q, F, S, M, A, X Y, O, J, ᖶ,Ђ, B, Ů, C and Ɂ (glottal stop) [lower case]: h, u, ŋ, g, i, n, v, ʌ, ⋈ d, w, ε, ћ, z, r, p, t k, l, q, f, s, m, a, x y, o, j, e, ѣ, b, ů, c and ɂ (glottal stop) 7M to IPA to Current English Table: 7M | IPA | Current English h | h | hat, [h]at u | ə | mud, m[u]d ŋ | ŋ | sing, si[ng] g | g | get, [g]et i | ɪ | sit, s[i]t n | n | nap, [n]ap v | v | very, [v]ery ʌ | ɑ | not, n[o]t ⋈ | ʒ | measure, mea[s]ure -------------------------------------------------------- d | d | dot, [d]ot w | w | wet, [w]et ε | i | feet, f[ee]t ћ | ð | smooth, smoo[th] z | z | zip, [z]ip r | ɹ | dirt, d[ir]t p | p | pet, [p]et t | t | tub, [t]ub -------------------------------------------------------- k | k | kite, [k]ite l | l | little, [l]itt[le]* q | u | loop, l[oo]p f | f | fig, [f]ig s | s | sit, [s]it m | m | man, [m]an a | æ | cat, c[a]t x | ʃ | dish, di[sh] -------------------------------------------------------- y | j | yellow, [y]ellow o | o̞ | note, n[o]te j | d͡ʒ | judge, [j]u[dg]e e | e | get, g[e]t ѣ | θ | tooth, too[th] b | b | bed, [b]ed ů | ʊ | put, p[u]t c | t͡ʃ | chat, [ch]at and ɂ (glottal stop) crc = church *The letter /L/ represents both a consonant form & a vowel form. Ten pure vowels [no diphthongs]: 7M(U I Λ E R Q A O ᖶ Ů u i ʌ ε r q a o e ů) IPA(ə ɪ ɑ i [ɹ] u æ o̞ e ʊ) 2 additional vowels with no glyphs Dark L /ɫ/ and raised /æ/ This IPA nuttiness will clearly not work for everyday handwriting: ʊ, d͡ʒ, t͡ʃ, o̞, æ, ð, ʒ, ə

April Chan is back!!!

English is German momgrelized by the French. Blame William.

I gave up when they add 'k' in Knife: as someone who speaks Somali,Swahili, Arabic and Amharic fluently . Below is how I prefer to pronounce english/ingriis The girl is holding a knife= the gal is holding a nayf .

@Autifellow

3 жыл бұрын

The word "knife" comes from the Danish Vikings period (Danish word "kniv"). Borrowed from that Scandinavian language when north and east part of England was ruled by Danish Vikings.

This is my proposed new English orthography: (nu iňglish orthogrəfie) a/æ/ ai/ei/ b c/k/ ch/tʃ/ d e/ɛ/ ie/i/ ə/ʌ~ə/ f g h i/ɪ/ ei /ai/ j/dʒ/ l m n ň/ŋ/ o/a/ oh/oʊ/ p r s t th/θ~ð/ u/u/ oo/ʊ/ v w sh/ʃ/ ch/tʃ/ y/j/ z zh/ʒ/ ar /ar/ or /ɔr/

in Arabic we always write what we say .

Hmmm interesting. Maybe someday the spelling will change again to affect modern day English

All languages have "strange" spellings and "don't make sense"..... for eg: The spanish 'y' sound is a "ll" but it is perfectly ok to use "Y" as an "eee" sound or a "yuh" sound invarious words.... have you tried to speak Finnish or Japanese...?

@dannyjorde2677

Жыл бұрын

Nope. Spanish is perfectly consistent with its rules. Just because you can make the same sound with different letters doesn't mean it doesn't make sense. It only means that the language has its own rules. The important thing is to be consistent with those rules.

@mehdila9521

Жыл бұрын

@@dannyjorde2677 you are right spanish one of the only language who is very easy to pronounce and its spelling not different to its pronouncing

_English spelling is difficult_ Czech language: hold my commas and accents

I like these short language videos from the ABC

I gained weight then knowledge

I 👀

you copied this from langfocus

ai ken spik inglish veri wel

@zarthy4169

4 жыл бұрын

Ie kan spel and speek Inglix beter.

@Kanal7Indonesia

4 жыл бұрын

@@zarthy4169 hahahahah

@zarthy4169

4 жыл бұрын

ISLAM is Satan's masterpiece - est satanique I think ai world be pronounced ai as in day. Also I’m using X for the Sh sound, C for the Ch sound, and Q for the Th sound.

sänk ju for tis video

I pronounce steak as [stek]

If you feel english are so ridiculous, ask to frenchs, spaniards, germans, or dannish

Modern Chinese and Japanese have changed dramatically after 1945. Modern Japanese cannot read newspapers published before 1949. The same is true about the Chinese.

@minwang52

4 жыл бұрын

Dipak Basu Not true, can’t say for sure about Japanese but modern Chinese can definitely read novels published in the late Ming dynasty (circa 14-17th century) with minor difficulties.

@GameFuMaster

4 жыл бұрын

how has chinese changed? All I know is that there was simplification. Some there's no real "spelling" in Chinese, unless grammar/dialect changes? I think Cantonese used to be the main language in Ancient China.

@minwang52

4 жыл бұрын

GameFuMaster Hell no, there’s really no such a period as “ancient China”, the whole history is a continuum. Cantonese retains some pronunciation of older form of speech that was dropped in development of the official tongue 官话 that slowly morphs into Mandarin we know today. But other dialect/language such as Hakka Teochew Min Wu etc also retain some pronunciations from some older form of speech. You can say the different Chinese dialects today are all descendants of the older Chinese language family. None of them is more original than another.

Blud Wud Simple as

I made it 1k :D

The way the people in England pronounce English words is correct because .... Drum role please.... The people speaking those words are English .... Amazing. Every other countries people that think otherwise are not English... So it really doesn't matter what they think. To say otherwise is like a dwarf dictating to a 7ft basketball player how to play basketball at a pro level... Makes no sense and what he has to say about the topic isn't important.

In India atleast, I believe this illogical nature of English spelling is a major influence in the way children learn things. English spelling is one of the first things students learn at school. When there is an incentive for memoriSing than understanding spellings, the student is silently told that many things in the world do not have any logic and that you need to learn them by heart. In the pursuit of marks students use this same approach while studying physical & social science. The result, is a generation of uneducated literates. The reason why i say this is because I have seen my 4 year old nephew struggling to understand the logic behind English spelling and ultimately giving up. It was because of him that I actually ended up watching this video. He asked us why this exercise of learning spelling doesn't make any sense to him. I think he is right. It doesn't make any sense. Infact it was never meant to make any sense. We may not be able to change anything now. But we should atleast stop penaliSing students for making mistakes while spelling. Hi tim! V need tu be mispell tolarant.

English is a hodgepodge language and may it continue to be so.

Stupidest word in English: Queue... Pronounced as Q... Everything after first letter is redundant...!

tis also my second language also ,trash and trashier.

Dhə probləm widh dhī Ingliç speling iz wel-nown, bat wai nathing ceinjiz iz biond mai andərständing. Sekənd längwij lərnərz əsaid, wot Ai rilī keər for ar dhə litəl cildrən hu ar torcərd widh dhə promis of ə lojik speling wen dhər iz nan.

Getting English spelling down is a small hurdle. Learning to 'spell' in an Asian language is nearly impossible. Africans and Native Americans were nice enough to not have a written language.

@kristinburton4953

4 жыл бұрын

That's why they were stuck in their simpleness. They resent white people but enjoy the trappings.

@MrLunithy

4 жыл бұрын

And the Aboriginals in Australia they did not have a written language but did have a huge image based language

02:30...and now we have vocal fry..😱🤢🤮

Funny, Think so?

This is because English copied many things from French, also a language with a crazy spelling.

cool! The world must speak any Slavic language so that I do not have to learn absurd English :D

It's this Clown ridiculousness that made me invent the 7M Phonemic English writing system. People make myriad excuses for this crap but it's inexcusable.

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Why do people in the ''West'' now have such atrocious levels of English?? Just a few examples: - Amount of people, amount of cars (can't count?) - More sweet/most sweet, more good/most good (what happened to sweeter/sweetest, better/best??) - a tonne of cars, a bunch of people, a tonne of swans, a bunch of food, a tonne of books, a bunch of...... - you're vs your, their vs they're, were vs where etc

@garyoa1

4 жыл бұрын

What drives me crazy (or crazier) is these "ones" or those "ones". Why do you need "ones" there. These or those should suffice. And why pluralize "one"? Which makes even less sense.

The only English is from Britain American is not English it’s Gobley Gooch

An ornamental with an English accent, teachings proper English. Strange.

It’s interesting that Runes and ancient Hebrew script are the same.

Settle down spelling

Dhis iz hau Ingglish spelling shud probabli luk insted Ai think

There are absolutely no problems at all with the English language. Unfortunately it is the level of teaching which has it. The standard of the spoken word on this video reflects the lack of teacher's knowledge. The young lady is unable to pronounce the letter 'H' correctly. It is AITCH not haitch

@Tellusmapping

26 күн бұрын

What about the word knight.

Like Britain america is full of immigrants, both now & in the past. Is it any wonder then that words are adopted from different languages? I dont care where you are from & what language you speak, all languages evolve! You think English is complicated? Try speaking Welsh! Better still, try spelling in Welsh!

This broadcast must have been to make australians feel better about their total incapability to spell correctly.

03:30 The Bible was the first Book printed and mass produced on the Gutenberg press, and was responsible for the standardisation of German and English spelling and language not "books". Typical ABC left wing socialist revisionist history propaganda. Say it. The Bible. The Bible The Bible.

@hwd71

4 жыл бұрын

@UCiCsyhFJw19xSDx3VL5rcEA Thank you for your correction and will make the necessary edit.

Englisch ist schmutzig

@thetrashmaster1352

4 жыл бұрын

Kein Deutscher ist sauber.

@mehdila9521

Жыл бұрын

@@thetrashmaster1352 both they are😂

English is not a phonetic language full-stop. If you want a phonetic language go learn another language.

@bogdan9939

4 жыл бұрын

The problem is not that english is not a phonetic language, the problem is that there are no rules of pronunciation. French is not a phonetic language either, but there are rules. For example "ou" is always pronounced "u". So french has at least some logic.

@dannyjorde2677

Жыл бұрын

@@bogdan9939 exactly