| Re: English is too difficult |
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| Douglas Sederberg (vornoffREMOVE@sonic.net) |
2004/07/22 19:11 |
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From: Douglas Sederberg <vornoffREMOVE@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: English is too difficult
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 18:11:58 -0700
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In article <5778ec55.0407220959.1f42905e@posting.google.com>,
eromlignod <eromlignod@aol.com> wrote:
> Don Pelayo @jazzfree.com wrote in message
> news:<sf6rf09pqjcg3v2jr93t8nk3uorecslntv@4ax.com>...
> > You have not mentioned the biggest problem of the english language:
> > The pronunciation. English pronunciation in extremely unstable.
> > It is a extremely hard issue to memorize each word spelling and
> > moreover it changes dramaticaly with the many different accents.
> >
> > In Spain , for instance, the Standard (BBC style) English is mostly
> > taught by teachers. But when you hear a real conversation using
> > Aussy , midland's or caribbean accent, idioms, slang, understanding
> > may become almost impossible.
> > It is very discouraging because they sometimes seem to speak another
> > language.
>
> Yes, I agree with you. Both accents and colloquialisms can make a
> language more difficult. Do you think that English is more
> susceptible to this than other languages? Don't other
> Spanish-speaking nations have the same degree of differences (like
> Mexican or South-American Spanish), or do they stick with the Spanish
> pronunciation better?
>
> Don
> Kansas City
In my experience there's a pretty large difference in understandability
between Spanish-speakers of Spain, Puerto Rico, Cuba, northern &
southern Mexico, and South American countries. Some of this may be
explained by class differences and some, I guess, by the natural
variance from a standard Spanish that occurs in all languages that
spread out over a huge area of the world. "Proper" Spanish is a lot
easier to pronounce due to its strict rules of pronunciation. Once you
learn them you can pretty much pronounce anything correctly without
having any idea what you're saying!
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