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MaggieSN wrote: English is quite easy. Spelling/pronunciation is tricky - not phonetic but grammar quite easy.

My English pet peeves are Worcester Sauce and Leicester Square. The number of times I had to try to come up with an explanation why is it pronounced the way it is...

French, German and Slavic languages are much harder - nouns and pronouns have gender, grammatical cases... Ouch.

I love German long words that you can figure out as you hear them because they are built of several different words. Also, you can always read German with correct pronunciation - there are actual rules. I forgot most but can still read it and pick up a few words.

French... not so much. Everything sounds short but there are a lot of letters. Sounds nice though. My level of French is that depending on the subject, I can either talk/listen or read about it 😂

Most Slavic languages are phonetic but apart from that, quite hard.

I loved the short story, thank you! You forgot Gloucester lol. Try this one:  A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.

Norwegian is phonetically easy to pronounce. They have lovely long words like 'Menneskerettighetserklaeringen' (the Declaration of Human Rights) and 'arbeidstakerorganisasjoner' (trade unions). The problem with English is all the exceptions to the rules.