Joel

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

For sure. The one thing English has going for it is that it doesn't force us to learn two versions of everything for the masculine and feminine.

The hardest part of any language, I feel, isn't the vocabulary, but the grammar. I've been "learning" spanish for almost all of my life, and I remember a pretty good amount of vocabulary, but ask me to put together a sentence, and you'll be sitting there for a while.

I think the thing that makes grammar such a pain in the neck is that you can't ask "why?"; you just have to accept "because." I can't tell you how many times I've sat in French class and listened to students argue with the teacher about a grammar rule because it made no sense to them. As if the teacher would go, "Oh, you're right; that makes no sense. Okay, we'll speak it your way." Tee hee.