I expect native speakers of English and other European languages to have less trouble than my girlfriend, who is not a native speaker of English or any other European language.<p>If (as you suppose) English and other European languages are likely to make large distinctions between nouns and verbs, then native speakers of those languages would more naturally notice the distinction in the sentence without having it pointed out to them, correct?  I believe we&#x27;re in agreement here.<p>Perhaps I went a bit too far in trying to reduce the wordiness of my statement and should have left it as &quot;those who are not native speakers of English or any other Eurpean languages&quot;.