Originally Posted by
Uzi
You're right about that, but you just pick it up after you use the language for some time. There's languages out there you can never learn to pronounce properly even after many years, unless you are born to speak that language.
Well this is not a topic about the complexity of English anyway, my point was that other languages have so many more options how to say things, things you can't even really describe in English.
Some examples would be making words "smaller and cuter" (example - chica - chicita in Spanish (not sure about the spelling, might be a Q there). Kůň (horse) - koník (small horse) - koníček (a super cute little horse) in Czech), combining words in various original ways, etc. I know I keep bringing up Czech but that's because it's the only language I know that well. For example, the masculine nouns are also divided to living and unliving in Czech, and are treated differently when talking, in addition to the division between he, she and it. Also, you can change the order of words in the Czech syntax to stress some important thing, or make it sound more polite, or make it sound archaic, or whatever. English sentences simply stop making sense usually. Also, nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs always change their form depending on the grammatical case, time, person, etc. thus, there's an unfathomably greater number of combinations for rhyming, making poetry and music lyrics much better. These are just things that I can think of English can not do. And there's more.