What English does - but most languages can't

Half these comments: “We do that in my (Western European) language. It’s not that rare” This video: “These concepts are rare outside of Western Europe.”

In Korean, if you want to say specifically "Fingers" you literally say "Hand Branches"

A language professor was talking about how in many languages, a double negative would become a positive, but how there was no language where two positives made a negative, and one of his students replied: "Yeah...right."

One thing I adore about the English language is the word “The” not the TH sound but the use of the word. The main thing is that English is a non-gender language. So you can use the word “The” For absolutely everything without having to think about its gender, the same also goes for plural. Even if the noun is a plural noun you can still use “The” for it as well. It can be used for all nouns and even plural ones. Very useful in getting the hang of a language lol.

English is pretty consistent at being inconsistent.

Kurdish is really interesting too. If you wanna ask: "do you have a cigarette", you ask "Does your cigarette exist?"

I always thought English as both the easiest and hardest language to learn. Hard if you follow the rules, easy if you completely ignore them. Just as effective either way.

The thing I love about English the most is what wasn't mentioned in this video - the ease of introducing new or foreign vocabulary into a sentence. Pretty much most languages have some grammar rules that make the process difficult, but in English you just the vocabulary from another language, like "sushi" and throw it into the sentence as you'd do with any other food name. Or you can take a proper noun, like "google" and use it like a verb, because there are no grammatical rules that make it impossible, but in every other language I know - there are at least one or two rules of why nouns cannot be used like verbs.

What surprised me a lot about Japanese was the fact that the word for “foot” and “leg” is the same. It just seems so... Inconvenient.

English: finger, toe, hair, wrist, ankle Korean: hand-stick, foot-stick, head-stick, hand-neck, foot-neck

it's a terrifying observation that you can learn a language fluently end to end, be able to use it perfectly, but to break it down and explain WHY you use it the way you do, is an entire area of study, vast as the ocean and thrice as deep.

As I always tell my ESL students, " Don't worry about the grammar. No matter how you mangle it, chances are, you'll be understood. Besides, most native English speakers don't worry about precision, so why should you?" Then it's the nightmare of English spelling. I tell them, " WE have problems with it, so you're on the same level as us. It's insane, no rhyme or reason, and very few people are perfect spellers, so just relax." Once they know that nobody will judge them harshly, they can start enjoying their lessons.

Here are the rules of English: 1. There are no rules except rule 2 2. Any rules that are taught to you in school are wrong and get broken repeatedly

English nouns do not have genders, while in most European Languages they do.

One of my favorite features about informal English is that you can make phrases or even entire sentences into verbs. In my language it's not as easy to say "to groundhod-day someone" or "Stop I'm-counting-to-three-ing me!"

English seems like the most descriptive or specific of all the common languages. I think that might be because English is made from multiple languages. We don’t just have “finger, hand, and arm,” we have “digit, palm, backhand, wrist, forearm, etc.”

The adjective "one" in English gets even weirder when you're talking about multiples: "The red ones". That's right, English has a plural form of the word "one"...

English: toes Spanish: ;) English: please no... Spanish: fingers of the feet Overused joke, ik

I always thought that the most unique English feature was the auxiliary verb do, which has many purposes and allows to express things difficult to express as simply in other languages.

I am a little bit surprised that you didn’t mention the fact that English has in almost everyevery case, two words for any given idea; one descended from the Germanic languages, and the other from Latin and/or Greek! With subtle differences between them. Doesn’t that indicate a tremendous ability to differentiate between minute differences in concepts?