Anyone else dislike the language of their current country?

[moumoute]

I am born and bred here and I hate the accent and dialect.

I started off quite liking it. There are some really cute words. But now I'm finding the vocabulary limited and lacking in imagination (about a quarter of the number of words as in English). There's no subtlety. Native literature is nearly non-existant. It gives you a truly horrible accent in English. And the volume is always set to talking-to-someone-on-the-otherside-of-a-field! But I've been spending a lot of time in France recently so am comparing it to French which isn't really fair. Home language works much better for both rap and rock than French does. I hate French pop music! And all of my complaints mean that my home language is easy to learn as a foreigner.

Some languages are easier than others.

I struggle with a lot of the regional variations you get in Britain. I grew up in an English speaking country and different regions did have done ffeeent accents and different colloquialisms but only slightly girly different. You could talk to a person from any part of the country and 100% understand what was said. But here the sheer variety is staggering. Even on television I struggle (since the bbc moved north) to understand and I assume that the accents are toned down for tv.

I dislike the fact that after 10 years of effort I'm still struggling to speak it. I can get by and have easy conversations but it exhausts me.

I dislike one of the languages of the country where I live. I much prefer listening to French.

@Bollockstobrexit what's the language?
@jingsmahbucket
I don't like the language of the country where I live, it's my third language. French is mothertongue, I speak English at home with DH. I really don't Like to use the third language.

Swedish

@moumoute the other language in the country where I live is Dutch. Bleah. I much prefer French.

@BollocksToBrexit same here....we probably discussed in previous conversations
@JongsMahBucket fair enough!!

Belgium has 3 national languages not 2, the 3rd is German.

It's not that I don't like Dutch/Flemish, but it is hard to learn. I have enough to get by, and most people are kind enough to want to practice their English on me, which is great!

The Germans with whom I went to Dutch classes romped through it; not hard, given the similarities. The Brits and Americans struggled, not least with the syntax and pronunciation Ds who did Dutch at IGCSE tells me I sound German when I try to speak it, but I did German til 16, and I find it hard to be broad enough for a good Dutch accent.

Dutch is not a beautiful language

It might not be beautiful, but it is amusing at times. Close your eyes and it could be a pissed Glaswegian or Geordie talking to you.

Dutch is hideous. I can speak it but often get answered in German - not exactly the world's sexiest language either (can speak that too). Why didn't I go with French or Italian?

Two standouts of the horror of Dutch - the infamous 'heh he'h noise they make (kind of a 'whatever' sound) and the entire Brabant accent. No.

(Apologies to any Brabant types here!)

Dutch! Never-mind the language, the area where I live has a gesture for 'finger in the air guess' which is basically a very similar gesture to the one for a BJ in American movies. They do it in the meetings to. They did it on front of a very British attorney once. I would pay good money to see that again...