English words that conflict with your language.

[Husar]

Yeah, lots of native english speakers also mess up then and than.

It's better then waking up and than missing the train to work.

Yeah, english contractions used to drive my German friends nuts. Especially when speaking with fast-talking northern americans.

That's because the Americans are doin' it 'rong.

Imho English grammar is incredibly straightforward and easy. German and French are much more complicated.

German is pretty easy, trust me, I grew up with it.

In fact there's only one place to find English grammar nazis, and that's undoubtedly Germany. Just come over here to learn it right.

Can't be, I don't know any german who would be an english grammar nazi...

P.P.S. The most common mistake by native speakers I come across in this forum is "definately" and other ways to write "definitely" wrong. Ah the vowels...

That's deffo correct.

It's really strange that I seem to be able to communicate in this language fairly well although I have never made any effort to learn its grammar, whereas my French skills are zero, although I have put the double effort into learning it's ridiculously difficult grammar and orthography.

I'd say I pick(ed) up english rather naturally, never learned the grammar either but then it was similar with german, I learned most of the german grammar during latin lessons long after we were supposed to learn it in german lessons. One of the few things I find difficult in both are things like indirect speech in some kind of past tense or whatever.

About conflicting words, 'wand' would be one, in english a magical one can turn you into a frog and in german it divides rooms in a building.