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2. Spelling Bee: Why English is so hard to spell - AOL

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   STORY: Why is English so hard to spell?There are clear differences between how words are written and how they are said.If English is your first language you may not realize it’s not that normal ...

3. List of common misconceptions about language learning

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   Young children invariably learn to speak their second language with native-like pronunciation, whereas learners who start learning a language at an older age only rarely reach a native-like level. [5] The pronunciation seems to be anchored in the speaker from an early age and therefore difficult to change. [7]

4. Language acquisition - Wikipedia

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   For example, a child may correctly learn the word "gave" (past tense of "give"), and later on use the word "gived". Eventually, the child will typically go back to using the correct word, "gave". Chomsky claimed the pattern is difficult to attribute to Skinner's idea of operant conditioning as the primary way that children acquire language.

5. Language barrier - Wikipedia

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   A language barrier is a figurative phrase used primarily to refer to linguistic barriers to communication, i.e. the difficulties in communication experienced by people or groups originally speaking different languages (or different dialects in some cases).

6. English language - Wikipedia

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   Formation of new words, called neologisms, based on Greek and/or Latin roots (for example television or optometry) is a highly productive process in English and in most modern European languages, so much so that it is often difficult to determine in which language a neologism originated.

7. Second-language acquisition - Wikipedia

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   For instance, Norwegian is one of the easiest languages to learn for English speakers because its vocabulary shares many cognates and has a sentence structure similar to English. [ 10 ] Of the 63 languages analyzed, the five most difficult languages to reach proficiency in speaking and reading, requiring 88 weeks (2200 class hours, Category IV ...

8. Non-native pronunciations of English - Wikipedia

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   In addition, Italians learning English have a tendency to pronounce words as they are spelled, so that walk is [walk], guide is [ɡwid̪], and boiled is [ˈbɔilɛd]. This is also true for loanwords borrowed from English as water (water closet), which is pronounced [ˈvat̪ɛr] instead of [ˈwɔːtə(r)] .

9. Talk:Difficulty of learning languages/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

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   If they were Arabic speakers learning English, that is. I edited the article to give a hint that Arabic is hard for English speakers.--Kjoon lee 19:16, 1 January 2010 (UTC) We already know English is considered a hard language by many people (I mentioned that somewhere above, as well) but need a reliable source saying so.