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I would hate to be from another country and try to learn the English language. Why isn't there an individual spelling for the word, 'read' ? Sometimes it's sounds like, 'reed', and sometimes it sounds like, 'red'. We take so many examples like this for granted, but I think it would be very difficult to teach someone who speaks another primary language to speak our language. If g-o-o-d rhymes with wood, shouldn't f-o-o-d rhyme with them as well?
My family was having dinner over at SILs house a few weeks ago and her dh was saying how so many people are saying that english is one of the hardest languages to learn for that very same reason. Then we have those words like there, their, and they're.
I just had a hard time in French to tell you the truth... my teacher told me to take French 1 again or try another language and from there it was off to Spanish!
We had a German exchange student for a year .... when she got here she spoke perfect "English" language....not American English. It was really hard for her to relearn American English! HA HA HA
I think French was very hard to learn.
Dear and Deer
Bear and Bare
In the word "often", do you pronounce the "t"? My hubby and I argue about this. The dictionary says we are both right. LOL
We had a German exchange student for a year .... when she got here she spoke perfect "English" language....not American English. It was really hard for her to relearn American English! HA HA HA
OMG, I can totally relate to Oxford English and American English and I'm from England. Completely threw me for a loop when I landed in the U.S. I still get tongue twied and tisted!
It's all physcological or is that physical! Hell, I don't know if I even spelled the first one correctly
Personally I like words like ... rubber baby buggy bumpers
I cringe when people put an imaginary, 'R', in the word, 'wash'.
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