ilmscore | Casually Explained: The English Language

Casually Explained: The English Language

Published: 2019-10-15
Status: Available | Analyzed

Predictions from this Video

Total: 5
Correct: 0
Incorrect: 0
Pending: 5
Unrated: 0
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Topic
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An English speaker can achieve conversational fluency in Romance or Scandinavian languages with approximately 600 hours of study.
"for an English speaker it usually takes about 600 hours of dedicated study and practice to reach conversational fluency in any of the romance or Scandinavian languages"
Learning English
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Learning Greek, Hebrew, or Slavic languages takes roughly twice as long as Romance/Scandinavian languages for an English speaker.
"then around twice as long for Greek Hebrew or Slavic languages"
Learning English
Pending
Learning Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Assembly, or Mandarin takes roughly twice as long as Greek, Hebrew, or Slavic languages for an English speaker.
"then around twice as long as that again for Arabic Japanese Korean assembly or Mandarin"
Learning English
Pending
American English is simplifying spellings and word choices (e.g., eggplant, niche) compared to British English, which is also removing redundancies.
"American English is mostly removing redundancies in spelling and saying eggplant instead of aubergine or niche instead of niche again basically anything that takes more power away from the French British English removes a lot of redundancies from entire words"
American English vs. British English
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Australian English significantly alters entire sentences in a way that is described as 'internationally destructive'.
"in Australian English they just completely change entire sentences in the most internationally destructive way possible"
Australian English
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