102 yr old explains English spelling nonsense
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4. RedBulletProof 1 year ago
Vuk Stefanovic Karadžic:
Write as you speak and read as it is written.
—The essence of modern Serbian spelling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuk_Stefanovi%C4%87_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87
I just had to add it... 
I'm a proud Serbian student! 
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I'm prooud to be Czech. Karadži? followed Jan Hus and his language reforms of Czech lanaguage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuk_Stefanovi%C4%87_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87#Linguistic_reforms
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6. Comment rated too low. Show this comment ComentAtor 1 year ago
#4 andželina džoli posetila nju jork nakon posete šikagu.. translated from serbian...
Angelina Jolie visited New York after a visit to Chicago
i'm not sure it's the best way 
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7. Comment rated too low. Show this comment RedBulletProof 1 year ago
#5 It's the same language source...Slavic countries have similar languages..Im shure you know that..So its not so bad that he had some role models of his own...He did a good job making Serbian language easier than the most of other world languages...
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8. juanPzamora 1 year ago
#1 not that hard ... you just have to read a lot, just like any other language you want to learn! vocabulary its everything!
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11. Slap_chop_ninja 1 year ago
Well I guess a universal simplified spelling system would be heaven for idiots who still can't differentiate between THERE, THEIR and THEY'RE.
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12. LightAng3l 1 year ago
Glad my language is written as it is spoken 
... however i must say.... french is way, way ... way worst than english at this chapter!
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My mother language is also from balto-slavic language group and we speak as we write (98%). As a child I did not get why cat is speled with ''c'' and now I do not get eat eather. And i dont like that english language is so foggy, the words horribly ryme with each other.
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16. TehChillinJuggal 1 year ago
Wow... he got all this from his 102 years experience? im impressed.
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English may have pretty irregular spelling/pronunciation. But..... compare it to languages which have gender of nouns, a case system with declination of nouns, verbs which are extremely irregular in their conjugations etc etc. English is much easier to learn as a second language than most.
I'm a teacher of English and I learned French and Portuguese in the past. I'm trying to learn Polish now and it's a mind-shattering mess of irregular grammatical nonsense. Polish is also a speak-as-you-write language for the most part, but that doesn't make it easy to learn at all.
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Gotta love Finnish - a language where every vowel is always pronounced as it's pronounced in the alphabet and where no such things as silent letters exist.
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21. Herrminator 1 year ago
English is tough stuff: http://www.frivolity.com/teatime/Songs_and_Poems/english_is_tough_stuff.html
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#19 You have a valid point but if you consider that the time spend memorizing the spelling of word is actually lost for you learning the language.
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24. trancetunes (admin) 1 year ago
Some of his examples are kind of weak.. =/ Nonetheless, interesting/cool..
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25. schlafanzyk 1 year ago
#19 is right. Apart from the pronunciation/spelling inaccuracies, English is relatively easy to learn and understand, which is why I find it easier to write in English than in German. But this guy still has a point and it was presented in a great way. I enjoyed it to the very end.
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1. Daniellangille 1 year ago
Why is English so Dum! I'm glad it's my first language, it seems like it would be a pain learning it.