English Language: Reasons Why English is so hard to Learn!

English Language: Reasons Why English is so hard to Learn!

The English Language: Reasons Why English is so hard to Learn!

  1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
  2. The farm was used to produce produce.
  3. The dump was so full it had to refuse more refuse.
  4. We must polish the Polish furniture.
  5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
  6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
  7. There is no time like the present, so we thought it was time to
    present the present.
  8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
  9. The dove dove into the bushes.
  10. I did not object to the object.
  11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
  12. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
  13. They were too close to the door to close it.
  14. The buck does funny things when the does are present.
  15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer.
  16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
  17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
  18. After a number of injections my jaw got number.
  19. Upon seeing the tear in the pants I shed a tear.
  20. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

Let’s face it - English is a crazy language. There is neither egg in an
eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly,
boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it
a pig. You park in the driveway but you drive on the parkway.

You ship by truck and send cargo by ship. How can have 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. When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

And finally, how about when you want to shut down your computer you have

hit "START"!!

Šypsena

free nation - free speech …

Nekaltas

Ne i don’t agree with youCha cha

Can you indicate any wrong point in stated above? Mirkt

He he, I think that your argument only shows that English is an easy language Kietas

Really? Mirkt
Then could you explain me, please:

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth, beeth?
One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, two meese?
Is cheese the plural of choose?
One mouse, 2 mice. One louse, 2 lice. One house, 2 hice?
If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught?

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

Šypsena

kaip tais absoliuciai nieko naujo… net neindomu, turiu pastebet.

Jo…sutinku

Differently from all those crazy jokes and similar stuff posted in efc Nekaltas this, at least, has more or less something in common with our club Taip

hit??? or press???

OK, young ladies are gently pressing the keys rather than hitting, sorry Mirkt.

Šypsena I like it. I never noticed such things before.

O.k., evry language has it’s rules and exceptions! Have you ever tried any other languages? French, for example? Mirkt

Of course, every language has it’s own features and peculiarities.
But there is hard to find any other language with such abundance of the rule-breaking exceptions and ambiguities in it. That is one of the reasons (but not the single) why English is supposed to be difficult to learn.
Mirkt

you’re right…Cha cha

I like it Šypsena

Good one Gerai Cha cha but i think English more easier to learn than other languages, (despite Lithuanian of course ) Cha cha

i know these Cha chamaybe you attended SLI 2004?