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Why English Is So Hard To Learn (i0.wp.com)

submitted 10 months ago by catch22 to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I've never heard anyone saying English is hard. The only hard part of English is the pronunciation, because it doesn't make sense, you just have to know all the words...

It's wide adoption has probably been helped by the ease of learning its basics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s not hard, it’s just that you have to know everything!

…that makes it hard!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Nah. If I say "I thinked" instead of "I thought", I'm pretty sure you're going to understand me anyway. And with the written form you don't have problems with stuff like "read-read" or "colonel".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To my surprise, I have heard a lot of French people say English is easy to learn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why would that be surprising?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Because we barely pronounce anything compared to Romances