English is relatively easy to learn, but not to master (2018)

Re:English is relatively easy to learn, but not to master (2... by cromka on Sunday March 28, 2021 @12:31AM (#26607960)

I'll just add for anyone interested that you could replace “Russian” here with pretty much any Slavic language and most (if not all) of your observations would still stand.

As for the needles redundancy in vocabulary in English, this letter, which was discussed on HN recently, sums it up perfectly:

https://theamericanscholar.org/writing-english-as-a-second-l...

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Re:English is relatively easy to learn, but not to master (2... by HideousKojima on Sunday March 28, 2021 @01:16AM (#26608166)

For Czech all of them apply except for Russian's omission of "to be," which Czech doesn't have

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