Diego Alonso Virgues (Convospeak) | Why English is So Crazy. 5 Reasons Why English is so Weird @ConvoSpeak | Uploaded November 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
#Englishishard #Englishiscrazy
It is no question that English is a weird language, so today we are going to be poking fun at the English language.
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Believe me! We are going to explore the crazy, bizarre and strange of Shakespeare language. Our hope is to shed light into why English is so difficult to learn, so hard and why I need therapy. As a Spanish speaker who has lived in the US for over 10 years. English is still a crazy and difficult language. English compared to Spanish is very difficult.
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Rough Transcript
The pain of the English language is something that I still feel today, and my therapist recommended I express it in a compiled and well packaged set called, reasons why English is so weird.
Quickly before jumping in it is essential that you stay until the end of this video because I have a surprise for you…You will have no regrets. I won’t say more
So the first reason the English language is weird is homographs.
Words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.
Read" is pronounced /rid/ or /red/ in the present or past;
“bass” is pronounced /beɪs/ when it refers to a musical instrument but /bæs/ referring to a type of fish;
the stress in the word “content” shifts from the last to the first syllable in “If you’re content with the content of a box.”
“minute” is pronounced /ˈmɪnɪt/ in “There are 60 minutes in an hour” but /maɪˈnjut/ in “Bacteria are minute organisms.”
That’s weird but that is not it. This is where the weird gets strange.
Nothing in the English language is consistent nothing is the same.
In my beautiful language you just grab a word and then put an S at the end of it and it is plural. If it ends in a consonant you add es end of story. Easy
English is quite strange. Sometimes you do that. Like apple apples
in.pinterest.com/pin/199917670937310900
This is an explanation of the rules. How is this a rule.
So sometimes you don’t even make it plural. A fish is the same as many fish… why not fishes. And then we have Foot changes to feet, but boot doesn’t change to beet… I have a headache
But it doesn’t stop there. This is where the strange gets odd.
English speakers cannot even agree on how words are pronounced. In fact , it is said that the United States exists because they didn’t agree with the British on how to pronounce tomatoes or tomatoes.
Well some words are cause for conflict.
Caramel
Pronunciations: CAR-mul, CARE-uh-mel
Mischievous
Pronunciations: MIS-che-viss, mis-CHEE-vee-iss
10 | Coupon
Pronunciations: COO-pahn, QUE-pahn
11 | GIF
Pronunciations: gif, jif
And again it doesn’t stop there. This is where the odd gets freaky
Not only there are disagreements on pronunciation. The sounds of English are difficult. Most languages have an average 25-30 sounds known as phonemens. English has 44, including 11 vowel sounds. In Spanish we have five. A E I O U :)... In English you have short I long I sounf ee. A, a, O, o… I can’t even. Then English has a very unusual sound that very few languages have the voice and unvoiced TH. Th voiced… Th unvoiced...This phoneme is not so common in other languages, but in English it is used all the time.
Learning English is like a mouth, nose, diaphragm and throat gymnastics…
And you think that is the end… Oh no because this where the freaky gets bizarre
I am just going to read to you a poem. That will put everything in perspective… Believe me.
Give me a drumroll
So the surprise that I have for you today is… Should I tell you?
Okay… Today I will show you the language with more phonemes… Meaning the language with most sounds. English has 44 as we said, Spanish 25. Well the Taa language Spoken by a few people in Namibia and Botswana according to some studies has 44 vowel and 160 consonant.. That means 204 phonemes including five different clicks. Let’s listen to this fascinating language.
youtube.com/watch?v=rfr5ayDnK6U
Mind blowing...
#Englishishard #Englishiscrazy
It is no question that English is a weird language, so today we are going to be poking fun at the English language.
Watch Next:
Why the French Language is Funny? French broken down by a Spanish Speaker
youtu.be/PtwojgITlWI
Greek vs Spanish. Why am I comparing these languages and do they sound alike? Ultimate Comparison
youtu.be/jRJWR45-j80
-Spanish Compared to Papiamento and Palenquero youtu.be/YyY57hzDu4s
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youtu.be/g2hY5tawF6U
Can a Spanish speaker understand Portuguese, Romanian and Zamboangueño
youtu.be/tkyLN_OBoaw
Believe me! We are going to explore the crazy, bizarre and strange of Shakespeare language. Our hope is to shed light into why English is so difficult to learn, so hard and why I need therapy. As a Spanish speaker who has lived in the US for over 10 years. English is still a crazy and difficult language. English compared to Spanish is very difficult.
Don't forget to subscribe to conospeak (convo), a channel about Hispanic culture, Spanish and language comparisons.
Rough Transcript
The pain of the English language is something that I still feel today, and my therapist recommended I express it in a compiled and well packaged set called, reasons why English is so weird.
Quickly before jumping in it is essential that you stay until the end of this video because I have a surprise for you…You will have no regrets. I won’t say more
So the first reason the English language is weird is homographs.
Words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.
Read" is pronounced /rid/ or /red/ in the present or past;
“bass” is pronounced /beɪs/ when it refers to a musical instrument but /bæs/ referring to a type of fish;
the stress in the word “content” shifts from the last to the first syllable in “If you’re content with the content of a box.”
“minute” is pronounced /ˈmɪnɪt/ in “There are 60 minutes in an hour” but /maɪˈnjut/ in “Bacteria are minute organisms.”
That’s weird but that is not it. This is where the weird gets strange.
Nothing in the English language is consistent nothing is the same.
In my beautiful language you just grab a word and then put an S at the end of it and it is plural. If it ends in a consonant you add es end of story. Easy
English is quite strange. Sometimes you do that. Like apple apples
in.pinterest.com/pin/199917670937310900
This is an explanation of the rules. How is this a rule.
So sometimes you don’t even make it plural. A fish is the same as many fish… why not fishes. And then we have Foot changes to feet, but boot doesn’t change to beet… I have a headache
But it doesn’t stop there. This is where the strange gets odd.
English speakers cannot even agree on how words are pronounced. In fact , it is said that the United States exists because they didn’t agree with the British on how to pronounce tomatoes or tomatoes.
Well some words are cause for conflict.
Caramel
Pronunciations: CAR-mul, CARE-uh-mel
Mischievous
Pronunciations: MIS-che-viss, mis-CHEE-vee-iss
10 | Coupon
Pronunciations: COO-pahn, QUE-pahn
11 | GIF
Pronunciations: gif, jif
And again it doesn’t stop there. This is where the odd gets freaky
Not only there are disagreements on pronunciation. The sounds of English are difficult. Most languages have an average 25-30 sounds known as phonemens. English has 44, including 11 vowel sounds. In Spanish we have five. A E I O U :)... In English you have short I long I sounf ee. A, a, O, o… I can’t even. Then English has a very unusual sound that very few languages have the voice and unvoiced TH. Th voiced… Th unvoiced...This phoneme is not so common in other languages, but in English it is used all the time.
Learning English is like a mouth, nose, diaphragm and throat gymnastics…
And you think that is the end… Oh no because this where the freaky gets bizarre
I am just going to read to you a poem. That will put everything in perspective… Believe me.
Give me a drumroll
So the surprise that I have for you today is… Should I tell you?
Okay… Today I will show you the language with more phonemes… Meaning the language with most sounds. English has 44 as we said, Spanish 25. Well the Taa language Spoken by a few people in Namibia and Botswana according to some studies has 44 vowel and 160 consonant.. That means 204 phonemes including five different clicks. Let’s listen to this fascinating language.
youtube.com/watch?v=rfr5ayDnK6U
Mind blowing...
