Kinda bizarre take given that English is not a romance language and instead Germanic. Lots of words and phrases then came in from French due to the Norman conquest, and lots of words have been borrowed from other languages due to long European ties, the British Empire and the American globalisation.
English is the ultimate mash up language, and its flexibility makes it very versatile. It can feel hard to learn due to the ideosyncracies but even spoken badly meaning is often retained.
No noun genders is also a huge plus. They exist but they dont have function - unlike in French or German where you need to know the gender of an object to work out how to form a sentence correctly.
So yeah “French pronounced badly”? Yeah, its really not.
Kinda bizarre take given that English is not a romance language and instead Germanic. Lots of words and phrases then came in from French due to the Norman conquest, and lots of words have been borrowed from other languages due to long European ties, the British Empire and the American globalisation.
English is the ultimate mash up language, and its flexibility makes it very versatile. It can feel hard to learn due to the ideosyncracies but even spoken badly meaning is often retained.
No noun genders is also a huge plus. They exist but they dont have function - unlike in French or German where you need to know the gender of an object to work out how to form a sentence correctly.
So yeah “French pronounced badly”? Yeah, its really not.