German (usually very direct and with better grammar than mine)
*g* Well, English might not be the easiest language to learn, but it's definitely less rigid than German.
I'm sure English people do it in other languages - probably word-order-issues
Definitely that; English people (and pretty much everyone else) also mix up the articles - which is understandable since German articles depend on gender and case of their corresponding noun (and with three grammatical genders and four cases singular and plural...well, I can't blame them). It's pretty fascinating, really:
der Ball - nominative m. des Balles - genitive m. die Sonne - nominative f. der Sonne - genitive f. (sun is a female noun in German, but the genitive gives it the masculine article - that's probably the one case that everyone gets wrong a few times.)
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Date: 2007-08-02 12:32 pm (UTC)*g* Well, English might not be the easiest language to learn, but it's definitely less rigid than German.
I'm sure English people do it in other languages - probably word-order-issues
Definitely that; English people (and pretty much everyone else) also mix up the articles - which is understandable since German articles depend on gender and case of their corresponding noun (and with three grammatical genders and four cases singular and plural...well, I can't blame them). It's pretty fascinating, really:
der Ball - nominative m.
des Balles - genitive m.
die Sonne - nominative f.
der Sonne - genitive f. (sun is a female noun in German, but the genitive gives it the masculine article - that's probably the one case that everyone gets wrong a few times.)
~ sera