Difficult English Words

I agree with you.. I must admit that I am better in writing than in talking. I once talked with an american and he told me that he did not expect that I am not good in speaking. Maybe because of my accent and the way I pronounce the words. There is really a difference in written and oral english.

Surely! Particularly for non-native speakers of the language.

It is difficult indeed. But we are lucky that we know this language. At least if we are out of our country we can still communicate with other people with different nationality provided they also know to speak this language.

@hereandthere For us who can speak and write english, it might be easy for us. Tracing back to the time when we still do not know this language, I just wonder how I came to learn it. I have already forgotten every details of the way of teaching that our mentors did for us..

true. some letters in one language do not exist in another language and vice versa so there will be difficulty with pronunciation. there's also sentence structure, pronouns, etc.

@factorial Hi thank you for sharing this to me. I just know this from you. I'm proud of it.

Another one...

@factorial when you include images, it'd probably be best for you to also say something about the images you have. Especially if you're hoping to make some money with your activity. Images in and of themselves won't earn you anything.

Same here. I also do what you're doing and learn more from mylot.

@else34 I agree with you. There are lots of them here and I'm following them.

@pahak627 If you read discussions and responses initiated by those who are native English speakers,we learn a lot of new words and expressions.

Maybe that is because we started learning it in school at an early age about 7 or 8. You know during my time, in Grade 1 we studied our native tongue which is cebuano visayan and our national language which is Filipino or tagalog. In Grade II we started having English subjects to be ready in Grade III wherein the medium of instruction in all subjects except Filipino is already English. Then came a time that from Grade I up high school they used bilingual system wherein they only speak Filipino and English in school. Nowadays, it is different, they have another subject could mother tongue wherein they have to study our own dialect too.

@pahak627 In my French Catholic school where I went, we only started studying English in Grade 5.

@marlina Really? I'd just assumed that English was your first language as you are Canadian. Which side did you support in the France v Canada Rugby World Cup yesterday?

thanks for that.

Yes, that is true. Here in this site, we are enjoying and earning at the same time we are also learning.

Thanks for that. It would be a great help for us here. I agree there are sentences used by english speaking people that are confusing and hard to understand. There are funny stories made by english speaking people of which only them are the laughing and yet we, non-english, could not laugh.

@rebelann I agree with you,

@pahak627 yep, that will happen. Like with any language it is sometimes very hard to explain the humor if you're not of that language.

I agree with you, it's the only language that I know is used to communicate with other people in the world.

@gregario888 Thanks.

@pahak627 I feel your way of using the language, is pretty up to mark.

I can also say that english is difficult in a way, because I have known this language almost all of my life. I even can't remember when I started learning this language but still there are times that I encounter words and sentences that I find difficult to understand.

@MarshaMusselman I agree with you. That is what I really meant but i could not explain it in the same way as what you said. It's one of the disadvantages for me, non-english speaking, I could not easily make the appropriate sentences. I remember when I was still a student, I envy those who really speak fluently, they speak english continuously whereas when I spoke at that time, I still have to think of the words and its usage. So much to consider.

@pahak627 I'm guessing @marlina meant to say that it's difficult even for English speaking natives. I was reading a comment made to something I said when I first joined, and realized later on that I mis-read the intent of the sentence. So even when we understand the words, there could be more than one meaning to what we're reading. Most languages use figures of speech, colloquialisms and related things that unless the reader has run into them before, they could be misconstrued or misunderstood even by the best of us. If languages were easily understood, there wouldn't be problems in society or families for that matter.

Thanks for that. It's greatly appreciated.

Of course, having new words added to our vocabulary makes our knowledge in english improve.