why english is hard to learn.

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kombolcha

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Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:

The bandage was wound around the wound.

The farm was used to produce produce.

The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

We must polish the Polish furniture.

He could lead if he would get the lead out.

The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

I did not object to the object.

The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

They were too close to the door to close it.

The buck does funny things when the does are present.

A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

The wind was too strong to wind the sail

After a number of injections my jaw got number.

Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

I want it to be on record that I will record my record

Other points:

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;

neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.

Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?

One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? Is it an odd, or an end?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.

That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?

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Jelly2003

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Thats just crazy. There are a few points that I could argue with you but I dont have time.

But yes I agree that English would be very hard to learn. For every rule in the language there is an exeption.

By the way you forgot things like:

phone is pronounced fone

knife is pronoinced nife

and also:

the letter "q" is always followed by a "u". Queen, quit, quiet, earthquake, conquer

and also:

silent letters in words (cant think of any right now because of a mind blank, but there are lots)

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OPaul

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  dickie said:
yeah... like in french u have to make every thing mascaline and feminen.. english its just u have make the sounds go up and down

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Blame that on the Romans.

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insanekiwi

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imo english is one of the easiest languages around. ive had 12 years of english in school, even majored in it. several trips to the uk and the u.s. helped alot too. and yes, i must admit german is a ****** up language. but hey, french is even worse.

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clonk

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  S_Falcon said:
Someone once told me that english is more related to German than it is to any of the romance languages. I'm not so sure i agree, then again butter in german is butter in english...

This is correct. English is a germanic language at its roots. The romance languages are a very different breed.

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xRKx

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I know that at one time English was regarded as one of the hardest languages in the world to learn, because of all of its little inconsistencies and nuances & the fact that spoken English relies more on context than many languages. Placing it right up there with say, Cantonese.

I think that as it's taught to more and more students throughout at the world at a younger & younger age though, this is becoming less of a fact.

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gstevie88

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Well seeing that English is the most common and most spoken language in the world then it can?t be that hard, (most spoken because most Indian and Chinese speak it). And French is a very difficult language to speak. They tried to teach me that in school, did dent go down too well! I hate that language (French) and can?t really stand the people either and oh I hate the country too.

Jelly2003: A word in English that has a silent letter is ghost

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