[muir_redwoods]

Im told that Celtic languages of Wales, Ireland and Scotland are spelled the way they just to confuse and piss off the English.

[EvilCapitalist]

Lol! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM

[Veto!]

I have Welsh and Irish ancestors.

My fave foreign language is Italian. Spent a month in Italy, visiting friends Giovanna and Ernesto. Traveled all over the country. Hard to get accustomed to English when I got home.

Loved my trip to Turkey too. Interesting language to hear, hard to understand. So Italian wines.

Been all over the world, French was most difficult to understand. And so were French people.

[Myrddin]

Welsh, Breton and Cornish are Brythonic languages with a very regular grammar and pretty straight forward rules to pronounce for an English speaker. Irish, Gaelic and Manx are Goidelic languages. They also have very strict rules for grammar and pronunciation. I have to admit that my study of Irish and Gaelic has often been frustrating with details about broad and slender vowels and consonants. Special rules of eliding parts of a word. It is a level of complexity that I'm still learning. Speaking the insular Celtic languages is not nearly as difficult as mastering Mandarin Chinese. There are just a few special sounds and letter combinations that are missing from English. No "buzzy" combinations as are found in Russian.