(07-03-2019, 08:58 AM)Herrax Wrote: Well, English isn't my mother tongue, it's my second language and I'd say its about as good as my Dutch, which is my mother tongue.
Learning a new language isn't hard, it's just time consuming and most people don't feel like it's worth it.
As someone from a small country I am forced to learn other languages since nobody in the world would be like "Ah lets learn Dutch!". Luckily our languages is a mixture of English, French, German and some Spanish. I can pretty much understand conversations in all those languages making it easier to pick them up more proficiently.
I would say it's never to late but I can image people not willing to spend the extra time if your mother tongue is English since everybody speaks it.
Hmm yeah, I would agree that it's not necessarily hard - as an Englishman I do admit it does feel like there is no point at all in learning another language. For me though, I travel to Spain a lot - as us Brits do - and I always feel that whenever I speak even a little Spanish I get a lot more 'local' experience which really makes the trip that much better for me, hence why I'm trying to learn it. I'm happy I'm at the stage where I can generally understand a lot of things I see/read but my speaking is just atrocious.
