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English is special. It’s unique. It’s weird.
In this video, I run through 10 aspects of English that make it bizarre in comparison with other languages. These include its “meaningless do“, dreadful spellings, odd use of tenses, missing pronouns and the strange array of sounds in English.
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==CHAPTERS==
0:00 Introduction
0:17 1 - Weird noises
2:46 2 - Odd questions
4:48 3 - Meaningless do
6:05 4 - Phrasal verbs
7:55 Babbel
9:16 5 - Why no genders?
12:13 6 - Pronouns
14:06 7 - Silly spelling
15:43 8 - Tenses
17:45 9 - Articles
19:37 10 - Things English doesn’t have
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