WTFF : Why I do a mental blocking on english ? Help me !!

[Mrs Beanbag]

English is like the x86 of the human language world.  We should all speak Hebrew, it's like MIPS!

[TheBilgeRat]

English is like the x86 of the human language world.  We should all speak Hebrew, it's like MIPS!

Crazy backwards language

[jj]

There is no better way to learn a language than Rosetta Stone.
 
http://www.rosettastone.co.uk/learn-english

 
I agree 100%

[Tripitaka]

I agree 100%

I don't, I prefer pimsleur. As covered earlier in this thread however, horses for courses.

[jj]

Crazy backwards language

 
It is true, english is very much backwards.
 
Most languages, including welsh you would say "car blue"
 
in english you say "blue car"

[Mrs Beanbag]

Crazy backwards language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZdFT4LZuH0

[nicholas]

English is like the x86 of the human language world.  We should all speak Hebrew, it's like MIPS!

Modern Hebrew it's very much as bastardised as English is when it comes to borrowing from other languages.

Semitic languages are all very difficult to learn, even to native speakers.

The only language I've had to use that I find harder than Arabic and Hebrew is Bosanski.

Now that is a weird language!

[Mrs Beanbag]

Yeah I'm thinking more of Old Testament Hebrew, vocabulary of only 6,000 words, now that's my kind of language.  I get on well with Semitic grammar though, personally, it makes more sense to me.  And stative verbs rock!

Actually my favourite language is Sumerian.  Ergativity is the best!  And its genders are not "masculine" and "feminine" but "personal" and "impersonal".