Teaching Bamm English

[ShadyBrady]

How to English as someone from North America..

So simple! 

[major-mark63]

I think french i sometimes worst lol

[RobMc]

6 hours ago, major-mark63 said:

I think french i sometimes worst lol

I used to be good at English

I still is

[Bamm]

Honestly, the most useful part of my high school English lessons was how we had to memorize a whole list of English irregular verbs and how they had to be conjugated. 

Not to say I never do them wrong now. But I do still at times think of the lines like, to catch, caught, caught. To read red red. To ride, rode, ridden. And now I'm just hoping I'm remembering them right 

[RobMc]

30 minutes ago, Bamm said:

Honestly, the most useful part of my high school English lessons was how we had to memorize a whole list of English irregular verbs and how they had to be conjugated. 

Not to say I never do them wrong now. But I do still at times think of the lines like, to catch, caught, caught. To read red red. To ride, rode, ridden. And now I'm just hoping I'm remembering them right 

Godverdomme, the boy speaks it better than @BUDMAN, but of course he'll be sober unlike Budman, so he has an excuse

[Timmah!]

58 minutes ago, Bamm said:

Honestly, the most useful part of my high school English lessons was how we had to memorize a whole list of English irregular verbs and how they had to be conjugated. 

Not to say I never do them wrong now. But I do still at times think of the lines like, to catch, caught, caught. To read red red. To ride, rode, ridden. And now I'm just hoping I'm remembering them right 

Taking 4 years of German in high school, I found it annoying & seemingly unnecessary that every noun you learned had a gender you had to memorize. 

Then the whole declension. 

Der die das die...den die das die, dem der dem den, des der des der.

Ich du er sie es wir ihr sie Sie, mich dich ihn sie es uns euch sie Sie, mir dir ihm ihr ihm uns euch ihnen Ihnen, meiner deiner seiner ihrer seiner unser euer ihrer Ihrer

About as much fun as memorizing the chemical process of Adenosine Triphosphate in the Krebs/Citric Acid Cycle in nursing school back in the day. A knife being neutral, a spoon masculine & a fork feminine, for example...

[Bamm]

4 hours ago, Timmah! said:

Taking 4 years of German in high school, I found it annoying & seemingly unnecessary that every noun you learned had a gender you had to memorize. 

Then the whole declension. 

Der die das die...den die das die, dem der dem den, des der des der.

Ich du er sie es wir ihr sie Sie, mich dich ihn sie es uns euch sie Sie, mir dir ihm ihr ihm uns euch ihnen Ihnen, meiner deiner seiner ihrer seiner unser euer ihrer Ihrer

About as much fun as memorizing the chemical process of Adenosine Triphosphate in the Krebs/Citric Acid Cycle in nursing school back in the day. A knife being neutral, a spoon masculine & a fork feminine, for example...

Yep not fun and definitely the part where the natives know you aren't native. Although from the languages I know, English is the only one that doesn't have the gendered nouns. And then you try Latin, and then every word has a gender and the gendered words also have about 6 different endings based on their position in the sentence if I remember correctly, and maybe even 12 if you also count the plural versions? I could not be bothered with it and dropped it as soon as I could. 

Regarding your second paragraph, I think every language has that? 

All in all, for most language learning it's better to just learn it in practice. Read and hear the language so much that one thing just feels more natural than the other instead of relying on grammar rules. Won't work in all cases, but at least it will make the learning fun