Resentment towards English?

[Winner]

You Czech's must hate us Russians...

Though, I cant really blame them, or the poles, or the Ukrainians, or the Germans... or alot others.

Nah, we don't hate you, we just make fun of you. We laughed at Germans during their occupation and we made jokes about stupid Russians after they invaded in 1968. It's a Czech way of how to cope with frustration

 

[BEHIND_THE_MASK]

Nah, we don't hate you, we just make fun of you. We laughed at Germans during their occupation and we made jokes about stupid Russians after they invaded in 1968. It's a Czech way of how to cope with frustration

We should of done that to dela with frustration when we were attacked...

All we would do is burn Moscow.

 

[Masquerouge]

We should of done that to dela with frustration when we were attacked...

All we would do is burn Moscow.

Well Russia has a better record than Czechs, apparently... Beating Napoleon and Hitler. I suggest you keep burning Moscow, it works rather well

 

[BEHIND_THE_MASK]

Well Russia has a better record than Czechs, apparently... Beating Napoleon and Hitler. I suggest you keep burning Moscow, it works rather well

Well you dont have to rebuild it... hell, it seems that more Russians die in construction then in War, look at the building of St. Petersburg.

I learned English when I was young and I've lived in America for about three years... I use the occasional bit of Russian but not as much as I would like.

 

[Winner]

Well Russia has a better record than Czechs, apparently... Beating Napoleon and Hitler. I suggest you keep burning Moscow, it works rather well

Somehow, life is still better here. If we burned our cities every time someone invaded, there would be no cities at all, much less historic ones.

I'd say laugh is our evolutionary advantage that enabled us to survive in the Central Europe

Either way, let's get back to the topic

 

[Oruc]

I don't resent the English language I am English afterall.

 

[REDY]

Resent? No. I only have sometimes fun when someone using English words to be "cool", but same about another languages. But I am using it also sometimes, for example veritas vincit under my name sounds cooler than Czech or English equialent.

 

[Kyriakos]

The cosmos of the english lexicon contains a plethora of epistemic words, euphoric to read by ethnic and native speakers alike.
And around half of the cool words are greek anyway.

 

[sabo]

It was a hell of a language to learn, I stuggled for about 4 years and then BAM!! when I was about 5 years old I started getting it.

 

[Till]

I certainly don't resent English as a language. That would be real daft considering the amount of time I've spent at it, and the amount of fun had, never mind the sheer usefulness.

However, I do get bored with using English occasionally. And I occasionally get annoyed by attitudes among some English speakers towards other languages.

Same for me. Plus, it is way easier than the other (former) world language i had to learn - Latin.

 

[Ansar]

And around half of the cool words are greek anyway.

I gotta say this guy is right. Greek is an awesome language.

I'm amazed at how it has survived so long.

 

[storealex]

Nah, the only thing I mind is that so many words are replaced with english ones. At one point we might not even speak our own language anymore. It's not that Im nationalistic, but I like lot's of languages and dialects. I also think it's a shame that Gealic is dying out...

 

[Mirc]

I was wondering if this mattered. English is now the most spoken language on Earth. Do any of you nonnative English speakers resent having to learn English to do or enjoy any fun things you do with the language, such as post on forums like this or play English video games?

In short, do you resent having to learn English? Do you dislike the fact that English is so heavily used in the world today?

My own opinion is: you shouldn't resent it. Some language has to be the most commonly used, and it just so happened to be English.

No. The language has some problems IMO, but I don't dislike having to learn it!

For me,

Pros:
- Easy grammar!
- Lots of Latin words (very easy for me to learn advanced words as well as basic)
- I speak it!!
- sounds nicer than other languages (Dutch, Hungarian... )

Cons:
- horrible spelling system :thumbdown
- very weird vowels... and with the lots of accents, very hard for foreigners to pronounce the vowels correctly :thumbdown

So, I prefer English as an universal language over 85% of the languages in the world!

 

[Catharsis]

I do have some resentment towards English as an individual who is learning a second language because IMO it impairs learning a second language because people, well speak English.

As much as I'd love to learn every language in the world, CivGeneral, I fear my brain does not have the capacity to do so.

 

[civverguy]

Learning English might be another reason why non-English speakers hate the USA.

 

[Mirc]

I gotta say this guy is right. Greek is an awesome language.

I'm amazed at how it has survived so long.

Well... as far as I know it's as close to old Greek as Romanian is to Latin... or that's what I read, anyway.

 

[Mirc]

Nah, we don't hate you, we just make fun of you. We laughed at Germans during their occupation and we made jokes about stupid Russians after they invaded in 1968. It's a Czech way of how to cope with frustration

Not only Czech... also Balkanic and Jewish... it's a common thing all over Southeastern or just eastern Europe...

 

[Mirc]

This reminds me of one old Czech joke:

Prague: a man drinks water from Vltava river (filthy green slop).
Another man sees that and says: "Oh, sir! Don't drink the water, it is really dangerous, you might get poisoned!"
The first man stops drinking: "Zkaži eto jiščo raz, ja něponimaju charašo pa česskom jizike, ja innastraněc z Rasiji!"*
"Umm, I said that the water is cold, drink it slowly!"


*He speaks Russian and says: "Can you repeat it? I don't understand much Czech. I am from Russia!"

Hahaha! I know another variant. I thought we invented it...

(In Transylvania)
Two people stopped near a fountain after having travelled a really long time. On the fountain, there was an inscription, which said "poisoned water! Do not drink!". One of the two people asked the other one: "I don't good speak Romanian, I are from Szekelyudvarhely*. What writes on the fountain?". The other one answered: "Umm... it says it's cold, drink it slowly"!

*town in Transylvania with 90% Hungarian population. The weird name with "y" and "sz" is the Hungarian name, the official name is different.

 

[Zuffox]

The educational level in English classes in Denmark is absolutely horrible, so it wasn't forced upon you in the regular sense; my learning English was more of a voluntary thing, passively learning it by surfing the web, watching TV and playing games.

Syntax-wise, it's a b*tch having learned it when trying to learn some other languages like Japanese, but which language isn't?

It does, however, bust my chops immensely that particularly Americans have troubles using subjunctive (if I 'were' to venture into that Dungeon[...] instead of the improper 'was') and disregard everything they know about congruence, when they use 'there' as a subject; apparently, it must always be followed by 'is'. It makes the language a wee bit more difficult for those not proficient in English. But of course, number one lesson when learning any language's grammar is to ignore the natives lingo, regardless of the country.

 

[sysyphus]

I try to think about a scenario where some other language was the "international" language and if so would I be bothered about it.

I conclude that I would not be bothered.

In fact, I kind of wish English wasn't my first language, because speaking english does not make one unique in almost any part of the world, speaking just about any other language outside of its native area on the other hand...