Quote Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf_c View Post
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Other than the absurd number of verb conjugations (which mirror French's, though, so if you know one, you kinda know the other), I found Spanish much, much, much easier to learn than English.

Heck, the fact they have only 5 vowels and any given consonant can be pronounced in no more than 2 ways (and the vast majority can only be pronounced in one) means I can figure out how a word will sound in Spanish just by reading it. Do you know how many years I thought that "chaos" was different from the word everyone pronounced as "keos"?

So, yeah, I'd like some of that brain-breaking evidence.

Grey Wolf
As a monolingual English speaker, I readily admit I envy diacritics. Every letter should be pronounced one way, and if there's a different way to pronounce it, throw a diacritic to show that. And don't even get me started on silent letters. Though that's a sin that is shared by many, many more languages as well.