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... Sounds delightful. In that case, wish me luck in keeping up my desire to master a language other than English anytime soon! 😆

Okay, thanks. Suppose I won’t be touching the Scandinavian languages any time soon, then. Hopefully, Dutch is (somewhat) easier, if I ever bother with it.

Huh. Interesting similarities, though given Scandinavia’s proximity to the Central Europe and centuries of cross-cultural interaction therefrom, I suppose that’s not too surprising. I know English fluency is big where you live, too, but I don’t suppose Swedish (and its cousins, if you speak...

Well, that sure sounds tough to express! :p Seriously, though, I've actually become curious to learn Dutch lately. No real plans or commitments yet, but since it’s a fellow Germanic language and is mostly spoken in a den of English fluency, I think it’d provide the right blend of similarities...

Thanks for sharing. I can certainly relate to observing how the same basic ideas are expressed differently in different languages, especially with syntactical rules and vocabulary not always matching up one-to-one. Contrasting came easily to me in my three semesters of collegiate Latin...

Just to keep an interesting thread going, I don't suppose @Skallagrim has any thoughts here? Considering how the Dutch are surrounded by English, I'm curious about any comparing and contrasting they're prone to doing with their native language (which is more true to its Germanic roots).

I see. What other languages do you speak, if it's all right for me to ask?

Coolio.

Thanks. Curious as to whether English was a difficult language, whether for the reasons I listed above or others unique to your experience?

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...