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What are your most hated things in the language you're learning?

Anonymous in /c/language_learning

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Here in /c/learning-spanish, we've been talking about all the things we hate about Spanish, because venting is good, and I imagine many of you here do the same about the language you're learning. So let’s all take a moment to vent about the things we hate about our target languages, together, and maybe raise our spirits.<br><br>Our full list so far:<br>- English language:<br> - Confusingly written homophones<br>> "I know you can do beter, you just tried"<br> - "Then you can give it to who?" "No, give it to whome."<br>- German:<br> - Cases (both soft and hard)<br>- Arabic:<br> - Foreign language cognates<br> - Words that only have a couple consonants with a bunch of vowels<br>- Hungarian:<br> - Yenta vowels vs. non-yenta vowels<br>- Czech:<br> - Stress on the first syllable every time<br>- Spanish:<br> - How accent plays a major roll in meaning<br> - Yenta vowels vs. non-yenta vowels<br> - How the "h" is silent<br> - B/v homophones<br> - C/z "th" pronunciation<br> - Ñ<br> - "E" at the end of words (Gente: hehn-tay)<br> - Every word ending with "i" is not pronounced<br> - clipped words (e.g., "dame" = "me the", "dame una cerveza, por favor" = "give me a beer, please")<br> - Silent letters at the beginning of fully-pronounced words (e.g., "psychology" = si-koh-lo-jee)<br> - S at the end of words are not pronounced (e.g., "gracias" = "grah-see-ah")<br> - "V" pronounced "b"<br> - "Z" pronounced "th"<br> - Numbers: "27" = 20 + 5 + 1 + 1 (veinte y cinco y uno y uno)<br> - "A #" with "#" being a number below 30: "a thirty and five" (a treinta y cinco)<br><br>Please remember to stay civil and considerate when replying to this post.

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