Talk:Phoneme List/@comment-53539-20120814174936/@comment-53539-20130115173521

Don't be offend as much as you think the guy is not intended to offend anyone. He is listing common flaws people make and presumptions, a lot of what he says is pretty darn correct which is prob.l why you feel offended, because it is hitting on things you thought were fine. You can swap any language around he mentioned here, English or Chinese, the issues he raises are much the same. :-/

I can tell you I own a pony in German; "Ich heibe(note; I don't know how to do the "b" symbol which sounds like a double "s" sound so I've used a normal b letter) ein pony!"

I don't own a pony though... I was just taught it at highschool. But at least I know how to say I own something in German by tweaking the words around, I can say I own something even if its not a pony. I might only know the English word for it, but at least I can sort around it with someone trying to figure out what I mean. Or at least I can look it up in a English-German Dictionary and find the word and work out what I mean myself.

Actually... Germans pretty much the only language I got one with and I've tried to learn several... I wish I'd been able to finish my studies on it, it was the one I got on with the best. I tried to learn Japanese but I didn't get on with it and didn't have the money to continue the course anyway. And french... Yuck, I've never got on with that one and I had more study in then (changed highschool) compared to German. =_=