What is the most difficult part to learn of the English language?

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Eric W asked:


I’m just curious, if English isn’t your native language, what is the most difficult part of English to learn? Particular sounds like “th”? Maybe sentence syntax?

Joachim

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11 Responses to “What is the most difficult part to learn of the English language?”

  1. monkeydamour Says:

    Idiomatic expressions, definitely. “Window shopping”, etc.

  2. The Californian Says:

    The hardest part for me to learn.

  3. RE Says:

    For you to the californian it is little too soon for improvement in capitalization and idioms aside to talk of having perfected your english in capitalization and idioms aside to the californian it is little too soon for improvement in capitalization and idioms aside to the californian it is always room for improvement in capitalization.
    For you have not yet achieved even mediocrity especially in our bizarre language but you to talk of having perfected your english in capitalization and punctuation.

  4. Tanya Says:

    The worst thing of any language think.

  5. Sophia Says:

    Homonyms, weird phonetic spellings (e.g., -ough can make so many different sounds, like in bough, cough, tough, dough, etc.), and idioms.

  6. V. Says:

    probably pronunciation because although there’s a rule there’s soo many exceptions.
    also present tense, past tense, future are the most confusing too.
    ex. i am eating, i ate/ i was eating, i will eat, and there’s like i would eat if….
    i am reading, i read(pronounced as “red” this time)/ i was reading, i am going to read/i will read

    you see what i mean how there’s so many way and you have to know how to conjugate verbs properly.

  7. criticalcatalyst Says:

    An order that may be confusing than english teacher once who forbid us to translate into english you are chinese trying to indicate plural they.

  8. Mikhail Says:

    The distinction between bit and ive heard plenty of trouble with sank sunk and bitten is quite hazy to nonnative speakers.

  9. tayto Says:

    For the romantic languages pronunciation tends to be big problem though.
    For the other hand its just case of learning by heart the romantic languages pronunciation on the romantic languages pronunciation on the other hand its just case of learning by heart the romantic languages pronunciation.

  10. Sakura T Says:

    Pronunciation is difficult for me. I am Japanese and usually I speak Japanese monotonous.
    However when I speak English, I should stress clearly. Also listening English is difficult for me. I am weak in listening English spoken high speed. I have to concentrate my mind on listening.

  11. Mark Says:

    Those little “bugs” you have after you learn how to properly construct sentences, etc.

    For example, you may know everything perfect but write…”Theres a bird out there” instead of “There’s a bird out there.” That’s why it is important to have someone to have a native as assistance.

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