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[–] celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

As a German who speaks french: French is probably the easier language since you don't need to declinate words and only really use 3 forms for time.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Yes but at the same time german writing system is almost phonetic while french have many way to write one sound.

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Imagine writing queue and saying Kö

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 7 points 10 months ago

Maybe in a few hundred year when our civilisation has collapsed a writing reforme will finally happened.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is not close to being phonetic. It is however quite consistent which is what you were probably thinking of.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't get it. How is phontenic defined then?

[–] iarigby@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am not sure about the definition of the word but look up Georgian, 33 letters, 33 sounds. Each letter has one and only one sound, which never ever changes despite the position in the word or the surrounding letters

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nice. Is it a germanic langugage?

[–] iarigby@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

no, it is not even an indo-european language, it has its own separate family.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 2 points 10 months ago
[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I studied German in high school and then as an adult I traveled to India and studied Malayalam, the language of the southern-most state of Kerala. I was surprised at how similar Malayalam was to German (in terms of grammatical structure, not vocabulary) and learned that it's because of Hermann Gundert, a 19th Century German missionary who learned Malayalam (and a bunch of other Indian languages) and published its first formal grammar, more-or-less imposing German's grammatical structure onto it.

[–] jdf038@mander.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

Damn those poor people lol

Fascinating though! Thanks for sharing that

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

As a swede who have studied both, I think French is way worse.