If you don't live in America or Britian...?

Question

For anyone who doesn't live in America or Britian, is English a hard language to learn? I grew up learning it so I wouldn't know.

Answer 1

I teach English in Japan, and it certainly is hard to teach. English has so much slang that even checking a dictionary doesn't help understand every day conversations. Also, letters have many pronounciations and even the rules that govern them have exceptions. And we all know that spelling English is a mess. This is due to words appropriated from so many different languages. (Tsunami, saute, guitar, opera, welcome, etc., etc.). Plus, English has developed in many parts of the world, so slang is different depending on where you go, as is cultural allusion, and pronounciation.

Of course people can learn it, but it is a hard language to learn "technically" by studying. It has to be learned in use, like a baby learns.

* hint: Esperanto is an easy to learn language "technically" because the grammar rules and pronounciation rules have no exceptions and each letter has only one sound. As well, because it is a fairly recent language, there is not much in the way of slang or idiom.

Answer 2

For a third world country like the Philippines, English is taught since preschool so its not so hard to learn the language...mostly Filipinos know the language, understands it but mostly don't know how to communicate with it...not so proficient i mean....but given the chance to practice it, use it everyday, Filipinos are quick learners needless to say that wherever u put Filipinos on any other country, they can adopt easily and learn to speak languages so easily.....

Answer 3

outside of the US, most kids learn English as a second language from a young age. It's easier to learn a foreign language as a young kid than it is later in life.

Answer 4

america

Answer 5

no i spoke Russian then English then Spanish now I'm going to Japanese

Answer 6

ya i m not in America ya it is little bit hard