Twenty-One Reasons Why English is Hard to Learn

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14 comments on “Twenty-One Reasons Why English is Hard to Learn”

1. Tin Woman on January 4, 2013 at 6:19 pm said:

   Exactly!

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2. writersforacause on January 4, 2013 at 6:21 pm said:

   Ha! I gave this to my more advanced ESOL students. Poor guys. I think I scarred them for life.

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3. shetraces on January 4, 2013 at 6:56 pm said:

   Reblogged this on globetracer and commented:
   My head hurt just reading this.

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4. PD on January 4, 2013 at 8:34 pm said:

   Reblogged this on write lies: more entertaining than white lies and commented:
   Sometimes I forget my father isn’t a native English speaker, and then he’s like ‘wtf is this,’ and then I remember English is a terrible language.

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5. Gary W. Allison on January 4, 2013 at 10:11 pm said:

   Reblogged this on Gary W. Allison and commented:
   Something to tie you guys over for a few days. This is great!

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6. magzmama on January 5, 2013 at 12:33 am said:

   Reblogged this on MamaTattoo and commented:
   This is truly awesome! Thanks to Literary Man for posting!

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7. bethwarstadt on January 5, 2013 at 2:20 pm said:

   Yes, yes and yes! I also have worked with non-native speakers and tried to explain why rough, though and through pronounce the “gh” differently. It’s amazing to me how many people speak English as their 2nd language and do it so well.

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8. bethwarstadt on January 5, 2013 at 2:22 pm said:

   Reblogged this on Beth Warstadt and commented:
   For all of us wordsmiths, this is so true, so true.

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9. Michelle Proulx on January 5, 2013 at 5:12 pm said:

   English FTW.

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10. duffythewriter on January 5, 2013 at 6:03 pm said:

    Reblogged this on Duffy The Writer and commented:
    Great! Definately worth a reblog

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11. James Tennant on January 9, 2013 at 10:47 am said:

    There’s a reason why learning vernacular English is easy enough, but writing English fluently is a real rarity.

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12. coastalcrone on January 10, 2013 at 3:32 pm said:

    I don’t think many of my ESL students could handle these.

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13. Matthew on January 10, 2013 at 7:46 pm said:

    Reblogged this on Carolina Mountain Blue and commented:
    Interesting…and people wonder why English is a hard language to learn at times; here’s 21 reasons why.

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14. Chuck on April 4, 2013 at 4:51 pm said:

    English must be REALLY hard to learn if the authors can’t even use it correctly in the title of their article. “Twenty-one reasons WHY”?? Really?

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