Want to learn the truth, read an old book.
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Agree! English is bizarre, but at least definite and indefinite articles needn’t conform to prepositions and noun genders. And verbs needn’t at the end of sentences placed be... iykwim
Try reading “The Awful German Language” by Mark Twain. It’s not necessary to get further than a page or two to entirely grasp his meaning.
Unfortunately, thorough grasp of grammar is utterly necessary for study of antique languages like Greek, Latin or Hebrew/Aramaic/Ugaritic etc. placing those studies far beyond my meager capacities. I have enough trouble comprehending meine eigene Muttersprache, iykwim.
I also think there is a reason English is so predominant. They also dont teach Americans a second language till high school, when they're more likely to absorve it as kids in elementary.