How come English speakers struggle so much with spanish when it is chockfull of cognates ?

Our education system doesn't really emphasize foreign languages. The meme of Americans not knowing/caring about the rest of the world has basis in truth.
>English grammar and vocabulary is so bizarre and complex
Literally stop posting.

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>English speakers have a hard time learning any language, the world will never know why but it's assumed because English grammar and vocabulary is so bizarre and complex compared to the rest of the world that translating expression used in common life never work out properly
I'm not going to dispute your point, although I do disagree with it.
I think it mainly has to do with the amount of English media available. It's almost impossible for a young person today to not passively pick up at least some English.

Every language has irregularities in spelling and vocabulary, I'm not convinced that English's is particularly weird in that regard.

I do agree that our spelling system is criminally negligent, however. Noah Webster didn't go nearly far enough.

>I'm not convinced that English's is particularly weird in that regard.
any european language like finnish, spanish or italian, allows a reader to know how each word is pronounced without having heard it before, as long as you know the basic rules of the language
its just french and english that like skipping vowels or assigning them different sounds arbitrarily
in spanish and italian theres 5 vowels and 5 vowel sounds,in english they are skipped or assigned different sounds

N*ah W*bster is a criminal, English doesn't have to be regulated

>this is what monolinguals actually believe
I feel like this is a bait post, but it's pretty stupid either way.

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american education ladies and gentleman

While we are talking weird pronounciation:
Why is pronounced nike-E instead of just nike? The hard E at the end sounds gay as fuck.

Right, but you're talking about spelling/pronunciation, not grammar or vocabulary.

it's to retain the greek pronunciation

Greek words/names usually have the final Es pronounced. Daphne, Nike, Persephone, etc.

>Italian has 5 vowels
Yeah, so does English. But we have many phonemes, Italian actually has 7 vowel phonemes. Only baby talk Spanish has 5.

the fuck

English has a lot more than 5 vowels. We just have 5 vowel letters.
>many phonemes, Italian actually has 7 vowel phonemes. Only baby talk Spanish has 5.
I don't think you know what phoneme means.

Distinct units of sound.

No, the bong is right. Look at the wikipedia article on English phonology.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology#Vowels

When you said "we have many phenomes", i think you meant to say vowels, or else your logic doesn't make sense.
a, e, i, o and u are just letters, vowels are the sound.

The reason could be the lack of cases. Czech has precise spelling of every letter so you can read any czech word even though you don't know the meaning of them. But we have 7 cases so every noun, verb, adjective and so on changes depending on the case.
In English, you learn a word and it stays the same no matter the case (or lack of). The only exception are pronouns but there is only a handful of those.

yeah, that's what i said, English has a lot more than 5 vowels. He said we only have 5, by saying "so does English".

vocative, genetive and nominative vs. accusative/dative are the only ones you really need in a language.
instrumental and all the location ones are so unnecessary

Vowels are a type of letter. These letters are a, e, i, o and u. These can be expressed by a variety of different sounds. In English, we have many vowel phonemes. In italian, the same 5 vowels apply, but there is 7 distinct ways of pronouncing them.There's about 20 in English.

We have fuck all grammar and cases so languages that have them are a weird concept
There's hardly any non-abstract benefit to learning a language unless you want to live in that country for an extended period
Schools don't really put much into it but honestly if they did it wouldn't matter because of above and you'd just be forcing kids to do more shit that they hate and they'd resent every second.
Fuck rolled Rs and twisted continental consonants
Also fuck guttural sounds

Not really

Chrt pln skvrn vtrhl skrz čtvrť Krč, prv zhltl čtvrthrst zrn :^)

Goddamnit user that is some fine ass bait, nice

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It's a legit sentence. Go on, say it.

There’s no incentive for us to learn French, and we think your culture is obnoxious.

But i don't want to

Can you into Quebecois French?

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I hate Webster.

Yes really.