With english not being ur 1st language, what's the weirdest mistake you've made learning it?

[sarah-crows]

hh my second language is frensh so it was very confusing to me that they basecaly are opposites of each other when it come to grammar and such

[Maps]

Hahaha!! I can hear it now!

Another one I loved was when they pronounced (for me) “bar” as “bear”. “Get your drink at the bear!”

[childofbooks]

My first language does not have grammatical gender. So it has one word "o" for 3rd person singular pronoun instead of "he she it" in English. As a result, I sometimes get confused and talk to people using the wrong gender word without realizing and some who are very sensitive to this matter thought I insulted them five times :')

Nowadays, I'm learning Spanish and the grammatical gender thing is driving me crazy..

[sarah-crows]

i'm learning korean, worst decition i ever made

[GloamingCat]

When I was younger I didn't realize that the English for "assinado" (Portuguese) was "signed", so instead of abbreviating it in English I used the abbreviation for "assinado", which is... "ass". So a few of my English texts ended with "Ass.: my name" lol

[lynestjules]

My first language is French. I had a really hard time not rolling my R's .
I used to say "tree" instead of "three" a lot. "Thr" sound was hard to get right.
I also used to write "cattle" instead of "castle". My first draft of my comic had a lot of "cattle". lol

I still to this day can't say "Monopoly" correctly. It always comes out "Mono Poly".

I'm fully bilingual in both English and French. But, I still mess up sometimes. I mess up in French too.

[Crusoe]

Yeah it's defined a specific accent. Generally we're pretty decent English speakers though. I don't know a single person who can't make themselves understandable in it.

[Puck]

In Germany they show the movies dubbed and I think it´s pretty common that the dutch tv shows the movies with subtitles and original language, right?

[Crusoe]

Yeah, kids shows are still dubbed, but a lot of stuff is in English, including ads, so that helps a bunch

[djourner]

I learned a lot of different words over the years... some from different dialects and regions, and since I didn't have english speakers to train with me I never learned which words belong to which accents.

So an english speaker might look at some of the stuff i write and catch hints of like 3 different accents or regional markers in the same sentence... Like I understand aubergine and eggplant as the same thing and sometimes can use them interchangibly... I often use mate and hun not realizing they mark certain regions of the world.

And i only began to understand that when I started properly study differences between different ways of talking in english. xD

[Crusoe]

Haha that's a mood, one of my friends is from the south of the us, so he uses a lot of 'honey' and 'hun' and I'm afraid I'll take over some of his habits.

[BreakingChalk]

Al the words that end in "tion" (action, presentation, congratulations)

I pronounced the T as in "Tacos" with a subtle "sh" sound.

Some of my classmates mocked at me for that. Damn bastards!

[sarah-crows]

fr the accents are too co;licated some times

[sarah-crows]

assholes be assholing lol

[bakasama25]

I suppose it's better than trying to learn Japanese. The writing system is rather arcane and obscure.

[Ordinaryaverageguy]

English is such a broken language

And we're busily smashing the broken pieces into even smaller pieces.

[Ordinaryaverageguy]

It bugged me when I was studying French that it had genders for inanimate objects & there was no rule offered for how to tell which one was the right one.

[polochon]

There are actually rules (for most words), but since no one knows them, no one teaches them either haha. French is my first language and I only discovered said rules past my twenties.

When I first started actively speaking english, I used to mix up phrasal verbs. Once, as I was talking with an American, I said "and so, she drank it down in one go and passed away on the sofa HAHAHAHA" while laughing, instead of "pass out", and I still remember the poor man's frozen look.

[Ordinaryaverageguy]

There are actually rules (for most words),

Awwee... fudge. I remember so little of French now. Wish I'd had those clues way back then.

[KUUPID]

I'm American, but my first language is Korean... I'm sure every bilingual/ multilingual person has gone through this. xD

Whenever I'm writing, I sometimes can't think of an equivalent word in English... Maybe it's my limited vocabulary, but for the life of me, there is literally is no word that can describe a certain emotion or word I want to use. It's so frustrating Dx