This is the FUNNIEST movie clip in history… for linguists, anyway !
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I’m late to this thread, but regarding “irony”… 
@RosaCanDo
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Ha! I love it!!! Haven’t seen that movie in decades…thanks
I for one know lots of people for whom this is a problem. But in my world only posh people talk like that.
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You godda problum widdat?
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now your talking 
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I got excited reading this 
I guess it hit a geek streak in me, LOL
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This thread made me laugh for beakfast! Hell, I know my English is typical German-English and maybe I will never learn how to make sentences “english”. But I learned a lot about how people use daily speach here on TS, so thanks. And sometimes I don’t understand, that’s perfectly ok
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Every ‘C’ is pronounced differently in Pacific Ocean
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Yes, I want to spell it that way too. And a lot if times I argue with my phone about it 
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May I present a language called Swedish to y’all. Words that sounds very similar especially with the [sk] pronunciation like in skirt, or the [sch] in Schedule can be spelled either with the S, C, Z, CH, SCH, OCH, OCK, STJ, SKJ, combinations and sometimes even the SL combo depending on where in the country you are from.
And then we also have the Å, Ä, Ö Letters that also sounds different depending on the letter in front or behind. Either they sound like they are, or Like O, E, and A to name a few.
There’s a lot of more examples but I can’t translate all of them so it gets understandable.
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That’s how I feel, currently trying to learn German. Nothing is logical at all, the grammar is in lack of a better word, tricky.
And I’m Swedish, native in English Swedish and gypsy language. Studied French all my school years, and some Chinese too.
I feel like it should be easier.
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I’m working on Norwegian… some of the spelling / pronunciation rules are challenging !
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Those are challenging even if you’re a Swede, but for the most time understandable. Danish is a little tricky but also understandable, and Finland has a complete differed language.
& @anon27700620 With a bit of effort I can read Norwegian, Swedish and Danish reasonably well. When it’s spoken I can understand a little bit of Swedish, but Norwegian and Danish not at all. My German is OK as it is close to Dutch. I like Frysian which I understand. Might actually be closer to Scandinavian languages than to German or Dutch. It is closer to old English but not at all to current English which is mor elike a total mashup of French and German languages these days.
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I have pronunciation issues. I struggle over entrepreneur and dachshund. 
Too funny!! 
Frysian is only used in the Netherlands and parts of Germany, right?
Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, Dutch and English belongs to the same Language family, The Germanic language family. The Swedish language also contains a lot of German and English words. In fact in old times a lot of Swedes spoke German as a second language.
I’m moving away from topic, but my point is that the languages are related, like cousins so that’s why we’re able to understand some of it even if we don’t really speak the languages fluently.
In Sweden we have a funny (no offense) saying that Dutch is pretty easy to understand because it’s like a mix of Swedish and German with some extra letters in between.
I don’t know about the truth in that though, but I do know that a lot if Swedes likes to go on Holiday in the Netherlands. 
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I know… I have a sign in Finnish that I got at a factory… incomprehensible.
Well, it’s once of the three non-IndoEuropean languages in Europe along with Basque and Hungarian, so there’s no surprise that it’s so different !
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I’m in the same boat, more or less.
My German is quite good (having studied at university), and so I can understand written Dutch without TOO much difficulty, as well as some Swedish, Danish and Norwegian. So now I’m actually making an effort to learn some Norwegian, and it’s kind of fun, though the pronunciation is rather tricky !
I remember reading once that modern English actually develop FROM German but THROUGH Dutch, which would sort of go along with what you’re saying about Frysian.
My mother’s province in Italy has its own language too, completely different from and not especially even related to Italian.
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