Does anyone else think it's crazy how westoid zoomers just brute force English as 13 year olds and learn the whole language without using any dictionary just by sheer exposure? You're not a toddler who learns languages like a machine nor an adult who's smart enough to use tools and practice methods, you just have an urge to listen to English music, play video games, watch American series and browse 4chan and somehow you learn English out of it. Meanwhile as an adult trying to learn a third language you give up in dismay after reading a sentence thaat doesn't quite make sense in French on twitter and you give up and go back to consooming English media.

You have to immerse yourself in the same way

>>212876218 (OP)
english is easy to learn unlike most languages

>>212876374
Maybe this. Just compare English "What is" to French "Qu'est-ce que c'est que". Romance languages are so fucking alien.

>>212876218 (OP)
i legit have learned french and english just by consoooooming media,
>>212876542
no you are just coping, and no one uses the expression you wrote, it is an edge case

>>212876542
>Just compare English "What is" to French "Qu'est-ce que c'est
>Romance languages are so fucking alien.
>French
Qu'est-ce que c'est
>Friulian
Ce che al è
>Romanian
Ce este
>Corsican
Chì ghjè
>Lombard
Che l’è
>Sicilian
Chi è
>Spanish
Qué es
>Catalan
Què és
>Occitan
Que é
>Galician
Que é
>Portuguese
O que é
>Ligurian
Cöse l'é
>Venetian
Cosa è
>Italian
Cos'è

>>212878168
You have to solve a math problem to express the future tense. Miss me with that shit. "Will these clothes befit my wife?" Turns into the monstrosity "Celles vêtements-là siéraient-elles ma épouse ?" , in which you have to take into account
1. the gender of clothes, it's feminine so you use celles and elles
2. Say "là" because french has such few syllables you have to add redundant ones to make it comprehensible
3. Seoir turns into siéraient, utterly nonsense conjugation unlike the simple and honest Germanic umlaut
4. You have to say the "t" in siéraient because it's followed by a mute vowel, but there are a million ezceptions like aspirated h's (mute h's that used to be aspirated, en, on, singular nouns, second person present tense verbs)
The list goes on and on. I have French fatigue.
4.

>>212878552
Oops, it's siéront, not siéraient, the latter is conditional

>>212876218 (OP)
>You're not a toddler who learns languages like a machine nor an adult who's smart enough to use tools and practice methods, you just have an urge to listen to English music, play video games, watch American series and browse 4chan and somehow you learn English out of it. Meanwhile as an adult trying to learn a third language you give up in dismay after reading a sentence thaat doesn't quite make sense in French on twitter and you give up and go back to consooming English media.
I'm not a westoid, but this describes me to a t.

>>212878168
that was a trip

>>212878601
You're Western. São Paulo is the largest white city in the world.

>>212878601
"Describes me to a t" is a perfect example of an expression for which none of us have ever looked into a dictionary for an explanation. We just heard it a million times and then our brain downloaded it and now we say it without thinking about it. Meanwhile in French I struggle to remember the word for "oak".

>>212876218 (OP)
what fucking western zoomers dont learn english in school

>>212878841
You briefly learn the words for numbers, colours and fruits and how to ask what time it is two hours a week for five years, that's it

>>212878927
you are a fucking retard
kill yourself

>>212878601
you are western in your language, the single most important cultural aspect of a people

>>212878779
I'm not from the white part of the country tho.

You niggas have no idea how offputting and weird it is to hear some zoomer online speak with a near perfect accent and use American slang just to find out they were born in the fucking Philippines or Sweden or something and have never set foot in the US ever

>>212878597
>>212878552
you messed up the the genders lol, "épouse" and "vêtements" are both masculine

the french conjugations and gender stuff are really hard to master, it really puts in perspective how simple the rules are in english.

>>212879396
Does that happen often? Most of my fellow zoomers I know have decent to good vocabulary and grammar, but stil a very noticable accent

>>212876218 (OP)
I don't understand how so many people did this, English is just too powerful in 21st century I guess.

>>212879488
Not often, but I think it happens more with people from countries with a weaker sense cultural/linguistic identity. For example there's this Youtoober zoomer that sounds American but then I find out he's literally Filipino. Not Pinoy-American, not hapa, just straight Pinoy and went to school in the Philippines.
https://www.youtube.com/@theonlyzanny

>>212879488
Happens with scandis sometimes, particularly Swedes and Norwegians, although you can still tell they're foreign. Their accents are just a bit too "neat", like they pronounce everything a bit too well.

>>212876542
>Just compare English "What is" to French "What is it that".

>>212879808
If you put that phrase into google search that is the most common way Frenchmen say what is. "Qu'est-ce que c'est qu'une naginata ?"