Zyobot
Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
Despite being an inconsistent hodgepodge of words, rules, and arbitrary holdovers from Anglo-Saxon times, the English language has become the world’s most widespread lingua franca. Thanks to British empire-building and American adventurism bringing it far and wide, English has gone from one of various Germanic languages to the world language of business, science, and international relations. Moreover, in addition to boasting the third-largest number of native speakers, it’s also picked up hundreds of millions of foreign multi-linguists who live everywhere from the nearby Netherlands to distant South Korea. All of whom have a unique perspective on, reasons for, and story behind how they mastered it.
So, for those of you who speak English as a foreign language, why did you learn and what did the road to mastery look like? As a native Anglophone who speaks no other languages (other than having taken three semesters of Latin, anyway), I’m curious as to what other peoples’ experiences have been with it, again considering how much of a gigantic, confusing mishmash of lexical and orthographical influences English is.
Thank you in advance,
Zyobot
So, for those of you who speak English as a foreign language, why did you learn and what did the road to mastery look like? As a native Anglophone who speaks no other languages (other than having taken three semesters of Latin, anyway), I’m curious as to what other peoples’ experiences have been with it, again considering how much of a gigantic, confusing mishmash of lexical and orthographical influences English is.
Thank you in advance,
Zyobot