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It is because it is unfamiliar; if you spoke only Spanish then English may well appear "sort of weird" to you. For example, in English there are context sensitive pronounciation of words - which is very unusual, take the following sentences:
"My project is to teach the actor to project."
"The wind caused the buffet car to buffet."
People learning English as a foreign language doubtless find this kind of thing very confusing.
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∙ 11y agoBecause there are more syntax possibilities to say a sentence in Spanish. Such "flexibility" was inherited from Latin:
La niña es bonita
Bonita es la niña
La niña bonita es
Es bonita la niña
Bonita la niña es
Pulchra puella est
Est puella pulchra
Puella est pulchra
Pulchra est puella
Puella pulchra est.
In English, by contrast, word-order is more important, and can change the meaning, e.g.
The dog bit the man (likely)....The man bit the dog (less-likely).
And the same is true in Spanish when the verb has a subject and object (in the e.g. 'dog/man, man/dog'). This becomes important when the subject and object are interchangeable: 'The man kissed the woman' and 'The woman kissed the man' are both feasible, but do not mean the same. If the object is human, Spanish makes it effectively an indirect object by adding 'a' (to), so
The man kissed the woman = El hombre besó a la mujer
The woman kissed the man = La mujer besó al hombre
and the kind of word-order variations listed at the top can be used. Look:
El hombre besó a la mujer
A la mujer besó el hombre
Besó el hombre a la mujer
El hombre a la mujer besó
A la mujer el hombre besó
All meaning the same.
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