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Originally Posted by Snestorm
@Skybird also.
Thank you for the valuable clarifications.
German is even more complex than english. Especialy the grammer. (Rocket science!)
However, it does seem to have the most perfect match between written and spoken.
While danish leaves enough room for spelling errors based on pronunciation, english is a disaster.
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This is very true.
I was lucky enough to learn to read before I started school, and not in the way they taught reading/writing/spelling in school at least where I was. Looking back I can't believe the way they tried to teach us the basics of English spelling and reading and pronunciation. It boiled down to learning the letters of the alphabet and the sounds associated with them, and then trying to "sound out" words based on their spelling.
In another language where pronunciation of each letter or letter combo is far more standardized and there are few exceptions to those rules, that would make sense. In English? Not so much. There is no *standard* way of pronouncing based on spelling that guarantees you'll get it right, or of figuring out how something must be spelled based on the way it sounds. Every "rule" we were taught seems to have numerous exceptions.
I would NOT want to learn English as a second language, lol. Maybe just to speak it, sure, but to read and write it? Yikes.