So you think English is hard?

@Elessar Many of my bilingual friends and relatives tell me otherwise, because while we don’t have gender rules around words, we have so many “exceptions” in the way words are spelled and pronounced. 🤔

@bijouxbroussard Even here, I can assure you. My language was born as a common language to reconcile all the different regional/provincial languages (now dialects) spoken in the peninsula, and it carries in a lot of particularities/exceptions of those, many of which make no sense even and are often got wrong even by us. Also, it's unnecessarily articulate - with "the" you cover pretty much every article, here we have 6 translations for it (il, lo, la, i, gli, le) depending on gender, number and initial letter of the following word - if followed by a preposition you get composite forms (of=di, of the => del, dello, della, dei, degli, delle); adjectives follow similar rules; let alone verbs, tenses that even most Italians take wrong, different forms for every different person, three macro-categories of verbs with different rules, let alone irregular verbs. Accents changing completely the meaning of words, e.g. "e" = and, "è" = is. It's a major pain, really.

@bijouxbroussard In my opinion, [u]colloquial[/u] English is very hard to learn, because there are so many idiomatic expressions you won't find in a dictionary.
Example: "Don't beat about the bush". – [i]Sorry what please[/i]??
Looking up "beat" and "bush" in a dictionary won't help at all. 😐

@bijouxbroussard It's true about the pronunciation like it has no set rules, but Hollywood makes things much easier. Lolz. Also English grammar is straightforward

@helenS Those are things that require memorization, phrasal verbs as well took me a good while to learn. But yeah, relatively simplified grammar helps greatly with all the rest.