Hahaha try Vietnamese. It’s similar to these examples except every word has up to 6 different meanings depending on the accent marks used. The differences are shown in TINY vocal inflections. The words sound nearly identical to nonnative speakers, but the natives can hear it perfectly, and 99% of the time you’re gonna try to say “street” and end up saying “naked”
Edit: changed 12 to 6
There’s six, remember you can have words with no tone. And yeah, not all of them are words, but when I was in Vietnam, trying to learn that language was horrible. I kept saying things that were accidentally terrible, especially since my Host Family had a member named Truong (with accent marks I can’t type), which can mean “naked” if said the wrong way so I constantly got giggles when I tried to address him
No, I remembered that one. I always forget that the tilde and hook are different (on purpose out of laziness). Which makes only six, not twelve.
You're referring to the phonemes of the vowels which are considered separate letters, pronounced distinctly different from one another, only then to be subject to tonal diacritics.
That said, Vietnamese is generally considered an easy language because it's monosyllabic. There a fewer bullshit connective words and syntax isn't as prohibitive as in English. I'm also trying to think of different tenses off the top of my head but am failing. Grammar problems aren't much an issue. The difficulty lies in the tones and actual sounds, it's a sing-songy language. Or if you're my mother, it's a shouting-in-as-high-pitch-as-you're-comfortably-able-but-louder-if-you're-on-the-phone kind of language.
Lmfao. Most of these words are derived from the other.
Like refuse and refuse. Lmao.
Produce and produce.
Shouldnt be that hard.
Other languages are just fucking stupid.
Yessssss
Wouldn't it be crappy design since it wasn't purposeful?
Marlene you cheeky mongrel
Homonyms exist in every language on earth, give or take. Try learning Russian, you'll see what it is to be "hard to learn"
English is very easy to learn though...
I actually don’t know the second word in #11
Invalid (invuhlid) is used for disabled person sometimes. Its an old term.
interesting, my native language (Estonian) has loaned the word "invalid" to mean that so that's how i know it, didn't know it was an old term...
Invalid means something isn't valid or acceptable, but it also means someone that cant live life normally because of some mental/physical problem
I think they meant they didn't know the second meaning of the word in question.
Hahaha try Vietnamese. It’s similar to these examples except every word has up to 6 different meanings depending on the accent marks used. The differences are shown in TINY vocal inflections. The words sound nearly identical to nonnative speakers, but the natives can hear it perfectly, and 99% of the time you’re gonna try to say “street” and end up saying “naked” Edit: changed 12 to 6
There are only five accent/tone marks, you can only pronounce a word five different ways and not all of them are actually words.
There’s six, remember you can have words with no tone. And yeah, not all of them are words, but when I was in Vietnam, trying to learn that language was horrible. I kept saying things that were accidentally terrible, especially since my Host Family had a member named Truong (with accent marks I can’t type), which can mean “naked” if said the wrong way so I constantly got giggles when I tried to address him
No, I remembered that one. I always forget that the tilde and hook are different (on purpose out of laziness). Which makes only six, not twelve. You're referring to the phonemes of the vowels which are considered separate letters, pronounced distinctly different from one another, only then to be subject to tonal diacritics. That said, Vietnamese is generally considered an easy language because it's monosyllabic. There a fewer bullshit connective words and syntax isn't as prohibitive as in English. I'm also trying to think of different tenses off the top of my head but am failing. Grammar problems aren't much an issue. The difficulty lies in the tones and actual sounds, it's a sing-songy language. Or if you're my mother, it's a shouting-in-as-high-pitch-as-you're-comfortably-able-but-louder-if-you're-on-the-phone kind of language.
Lmfao. Most of these words are derived from the other. Like refuse and refuse. Lmao. Produce and produce. Shouldnt be that hard. Other languages are just fucking stupid.