This Came Into My Email And Although It Is Classified As A Joke I Don't Know?
By sunshinelady
@sunshinelady (7609)
United States
June 3, 2007 9:49pm CST
People come into the United States and try to learn Engish and I sometimes wonder how they do it. There are a lot of slangs and also there is different meanings for the same word. Here are some sentences that would be hard to understand if you were someone who was just learning English. Tell me what do you think? Is English a hard language to understand?
Learning English?
21 Reasons Why The English Language Is 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 that 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) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was
time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, 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 line.
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 painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
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4 responses
@sunshinelady (7609)
• United States
9 Jun 07
Hi mizrae
My great grandma came over here from Italy and she always told me that English was a very hard language to learn. English to me would be a hard language to understand.
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
4 Jun 07
I don'y think I would classify it as a joke. To me it is a perfect example of why my foreign friends say that English is one the hardest languages to learn. We also have so many silent letters.
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@sunshinelady (7609)
• United States
5 Jun 07
I know what you mean but my friend had sent it to me and classified it as a joke. I don't know why it would be classified that way because the things are true. Someone learning the language would have a whole lot to learn because of all the things involved in learning the language. As you say the silent letters that are in the language. Thanks for your response.
@gberlin (3836)
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4 Jun 07
This is true though of many languages. I remember one summer when I was in graduate school I met a man who was studying Russian. I asked him if it was a hard language to learn and he said yes it was because the different pronunciations of a word spelled the same way. So it is not only English that has these words that look the same but have different meanings and pronunciations.
@sunshinelady (7609)
• United States
5 Jun 07
When I was in Tech school in the Air Force I met a few Turkish guys that were training there at school. I got to know them and they said that English is a hard language to learn. We had many a time at the dining hall that we would go through some of the words they didn't understand. I figure that if you are learning the language these kind of things present themselves. I had a spanish friend in Minot that said the same thing. Thanks for the response. I had my grandkids over the weekend so needless to say I wasn't on here very much at all.
@ashjoe76 (1422)
• India
7 Jul 07
This is very true of English language, though similar instances may be found in many other languages, to a lesser extent. I learnt English as a second language and still remember how difficult it was for me in the first few years, to come to terms with all the similar looking/sounding words. but once you gain some proficiency in it, English can simply be a marvelous language.
