Re: R: Re: New to the list

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Yup, I agree with you. I think English for a Tagalog L1 speaker could seem
>more difficult than Latin to an English mothertongual speaker.
Hmm, i dont know about the Tagalog example :). I've never met a relative
who really had problems speaking English, but then again theyre all
American born, or got here in the 40's :). But anyway, my relatives from
the Philippines seem to have the most trouble with the gendered pronouns.
Often he and she get mixed up by my dad's aunts: "i saw him, she was
walking to the store...".

For me learning Tagalog was fairly hard. Not being used to verbal aspect,
the focuses on the verb, as well  as the different affixes for focus, and
using the markers correctly, it was pretty difficult. In some ways, it was
easy, but in others it was quite difficult for this L1 English speaker to
grasp.