Deepa, I totally agree with you! As examples always enlighten a lot, I'll give you some impressions of my mother tongue German: I have to say that English in many cases is simpler than my native language. You mentioned e.g. the gender of a

Rommie, what offense, what are you talking about? I said I ain't an Esperanto fan I agree that an artifical language must be designed for comfortable usage. Maybe, it would be better to avoid genders in artifical languages for simplicity. But

What an attack! First of all, a disclaimer. I am no esperanto fan, so everything below concerns my common conception of languages, and is not intended to justify or condemn esperanto As long as my native language, Russian, is much more

I have a different opinion! I say English is very simple language!! English grammar is fairly simple. Nouns in many other languages have grammatical gender and accordingly some verbs and adjectives undergo changes. eg. most of the Indian

This book looked promising – it was subtitled A How-Not-To Guide to the 47 Most Common Mistakes in English Made by Journalists, Broadcasters, and Others Who Should Know Better – and in the first few pages I came across a passage referring to that

I agree with Mike. Your two suggestions works, for me at least. So Nawal should really give it a try. One day many years ago, I realized this from my observation: a Chinese friend of mine could speak so well because he had used English since

Introduction taken from http://www.ead.ufms.br/letras/Literature/01-Origins_Of_English.pdf Origins of English (up to 1066) Historical Background Before the time of the Roman colonization in A.D. 43, Britain was populated by Celts and