An English language teacher says to his student. “English can be a difficult language. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.”
It’s the pronunciation that makes English so hard. Hurray for phonetic languages like Spanish.
April 27, 2025
Well isn’t that a tongue twister. So true though. I can’t imagine how difficult it must be to learn English as a second language.
…I’d like to meet the guy who developed English in a dark alley someday.
Jack is learning how to read and finds it so frustrating. I tell him that english is a very old, very complicated language, and that it’s just hard.
That is quite the line! English has a lot of sight memorization, to be sure. Not always logical. I don’t know how it is to learn compared to other languages because I know no others–lol! 😉
I was thinking about those very words yesterday. My mom liked to play a game called Upwards. It was like scrabble except you could build vertically as well as horizontally. That “ough” combination was a fun one to build on. Rough, tough, though, thought, etc.
I have heard that English is one of the hardest languages to learn.
It sure can!