Reasons why the English Language is Hard to Learn?

Question

The bandage was wound around the wound.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
We must polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
I did not object to the object.
The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
They were too close to the door to close it.
The buck does funny things when the does are present.
A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
After a number of injections my jaw got number.
Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
I had to subject the sub

Answer 1

i like your list

Answer 2

As some of your examples point out, it is
because unlike many other languages, english words can have multiple meanings which can only really be discerned by the context. This isn't the case in other languages and it drives some foreign speakers crazy.

Also, English really is a product of various different languages.

Answer 3

Your question isn't even a question, but here's an answer anyway:

English is so hard to learn because it developed as a massive conglomerate taken from all the other languages on the planet. It basically accepts aditions from anywhere, including sources that aren't even languages, like acronyms, or are not human languages, like various computer languages.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

I think what you are trying to point out about the English language, based on the list that you have presented, is its large scope of ambiguity when it comes to words having multiple definitions and multiple pronunciations. Well, apparently, English is not the only language that has this ambiguity. Almost all languages have their word ambiguity. I have known some languages other than English, like Filipino and Spanish, and they too have ambiguity in word usage.

Adding more to the subtlety of the English language when it comes to usage of words are the idiomatic expressions, which apparently deviates from the natural use of words as prescribed in the English dictionary.

Answer 5

I like your list too. I have another illustrating the unpronounceable spellings used in English, like "-ough", but I don't have it handy. There are about 8 pronunciations for this 4-letter combination. English did not really come from ALL the other languages on the planet, but it did come from a number of quite different sources with different spellings for the same sound, and different sounds for the same spellings. I have heard that Spanish is one of the easiest languages to learn, because it is nearly 100% phonetic in its spelling.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Homonyms,agreed but also because English is not phonetic like Spanish or Polish.

Answer 8

Those are some excellent examples. One of the reasons English is so difficult is that there are so many rules, and exceptions to the rules.

Answer 9

And we we expect all immigrants to learn it within a week of moving here. Awesome.

Answer 10

if your smart you have no problems, i'd rather learn English than French if i had to choose a language to learn for the rest of my life.

Answer 11

wow! what an interesting discovery
that makes English even easier to learn, saving the vocabularies