koco-bean asked:

so in english there's common grammar errors like confusing your/you're and they're/there/their and whatnot. so i always wonder, do other languages have common grammar errors like in english? pls give insight

league-of-bi answered:

Hmm no i dont think so? In swedish we have for example de är/they are, där/there, deras/their and i have never in my life heard someone miss-use these words in any way?Not even the people who poorly speak swedish miss-use them? They differ from eachother to much to get them wrong. Not even in polish such problems occur, oni są/they are (as in gender-neutral or male noun), tam/there, ich/their.

I myself (as a person who had to learn english and did not grow up talking english on a daily) I truly dont understand how people cannot tell your / you´re or they’re/there/their apart?? It is very simple??Maybe its just bad education idk???(and im obviously not talking abt people who barely know english or just started learning,i mean those people who grew up in english speaking countries or talking english on a daily yet they cant tell the difference;;))

And honestly im not sure if i should even explain it or not because i dont want to come off like i treat my followers as if they were  idiots so uuuuuuhhh?

[koco-bean]

those specific differences are simple if you actually care enough to think about them, which is why it makes no sense how there are people who get into their 20s and still can’t tell the damn difference. english teachers are so very tired of it.

also, in spanish classes, i’ve noticed myself and other students struggling to figure out how to correctly use the verbs ser/estar because they both mean “to be” but they have different uses. i don’t know anyone who speaks spanish fluently so i can’t ask anyone if people who speak spanish as a first language mix up the verbs ever in the same way that english speakers mix up simple grammar rules. maybe english speakers are just bad at grammar in any language they learn lmao

[league-of-bi]

ayy anyone here who speaks spanish pls help my dude out?

[mimizukii25]

So to be has three meanings(so call them something for me is all the same). First is as a state like “I’m happy in spanish’ is "estoy feliz”, then is to be in a place like “I’m in my House” is “estoy en mi casa” the other is always the same like height name etc like “Im spanish” is “soy española”. So to be(state/place)=estar and to be(always)=ser. It’s hard to explain because it’s my first lenguage sorry if it isn’t clear enough.