= Сообщение: 3154 из 12504 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Björn Felten 2:203/2 06 Dec 15 02:08:39 Кому : Joe Delahaye 06 Dec 15 02:08:39 Тема : How to read historical texts properly FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+56638a8e На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=5983.enetsyso@1:249/303+1ac8c66b = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP437 ================================== Ответ: area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+5664494c ============================================================================== JD> I've been told that English, for a newcomer, and not a student of JD> languages, is one of the more difficult languages to learn.
The beauty of English is that it's so easy to get the first part going. In Sweden we start studying English in the sixth grade, but already then most kids here are quite fluent in English thanks to all the movies and TV series (we never dub them, but text them).
JD> To some extent that is true, JD> considering that many words have different meanings, depending on where JD> they JD> are used. Also sentence structure is completely different then either JD> Dutch, JD> German or French. Not sure about other languages, but I would imagine JD> it would JD> be so, to some extent at least.
Nah, the problem is that there seems to be more exceptions than rules in English. Both French and German (and related languages) have a rather logical set of grammar rules. English doesn't.
Add to that the US bastardization of the language, that we get the most here via TV and the movies, and it becomes an almost impossible task to structure the language into a proper set of rules like we are used to from our native language.
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