What are your difficulties when learning English?

I am a Filipino, and one the subject in education here in our country is English. That subject is from Elmentary, secondary up to college... Being difficulties in learning English, is that the grammar composition because it really hard identify if the sentence is in a correct form of grammar... The best way to learn is that a constant reading and more vocabulary reading

Hi dear, I hope you must have improved your learning in English. In the earlier conversation, I have mentioned few short cut methods to improve learning. Here it is sure that you are trying your best effort to learn. As I told you earlier, find another friend and start talking and while learning, make sure that one more person is around you and start learning together. If so, you can discuss and speak each other also. Even mine also is not my native language. Mine is called Malayalam and the sentence structure is totally different than English & Malayalam. As you said, in English: Yesterday, I visited my uncle, in Malayalam: Innale jhan ente ammavane sandarshichu. So, even I am writing, I think in Malayalam (my mother tongue) first and translated at the same time in English. Only difference is that, we learned English from the age of 6-7 onward from the school. Still, mine is not good English. Many years before, when I went for an interview, the interviewer given me 12/100 in English speaking. I gradually improve and I think if the same person I meet again, he may give max 20-22/100 marks for my English. So try hard, from internet itself you can get so many simple methods to improve the language. If not, I will try to get some links suitable for you to learn English, later on. Regards, Thank-s

Somehow English and Danish are alike - a benefit for learning the foreign language, but when im learning Dutch there is a difference in what they call the adverbs persons tense. Explanation; SINGULAR I have You have He/She/It has PLURALIS We have You have They have But in Dutch they are all different depending on the person, so now when im learning Dutch I make so many gramatical mistakes because Danish and English there are hardly any difference depending on the persons tense.

Hi, My native languange is Bahasa Indonesia and my mother tongue is Hokkien. Although English is not my main language,but I like to learn English. I was on tuition for a few years for English subject and slowly I picked up the skill to communicate in English. Furthermore, I was in overseas for study and work for so many years,therefore English is one of the communication language for me. I just feel easy to speak English nowadays and by doing Mylot, it helps to fluent up my English writing skills.

I get your point.Chinese and ENglish have many differences too.and due to few Chinese people speaking English,poor listenning and speaking English is a commom problem for many Chinese students.English has more passive voice and variation of pronoun whilt Chinese emphasizes on ative voice.And another main difference:For example in English there are three "be" verbs such as am,is,are but in Chinese(I can't type Chinese charaters in this website) we use one word.And there is also no variation of adverb of time and stess in Chinese.

English for me is a kind of difficult language to learn, the most important thing is need long time repeat, I am chinese, there isa very big difference between english speaking: grammars of sentence both pronunciation all is special for me to learn. one not simple thing including the written words, but I have my way to learn it to persist is the most important thing, treat learning as part of life, always reminding myself its time to learn to stop playing game, do every thing must be sure its useful for get improving, don't waste time. this is the only key for me.

It was a good thing that in the Philippines, English is taught even in kindergarten. I speak and understand English but in a basic level that I may be able to communicate with English speaker well. It is also a good thing that the sentence structure of Filipino and English are almost the same which made it easy for us to learn the language.

The difficulty for me is the English slangs. Since basically we didn't learn the slangs, we learn formal English much more. So when I watch the movies, sometimes I find difficulties to understand it. I love China

Many say that English is really difficult to learn and I have to agree, but only if you do not use it often that is. The more you use the better it perfects. I am most proud of many that try, it is those that live in US for a great deal of time and do not even try is where I have a problem. I am Hispanic and know of many non-speaking English people who feel ashamed of trying. There should be absolutely no shame in a person who has difficulties as trying shows the person is most wanting to speak up, which in my opinion is great. I feel anyone who frowns down on a person who is trying to speak the language should be the person with shame. As people are criticized for living in the US and not speaking the language so why frown when they are trying. So I would suggest that you continue to utilize the language as this will make you better along the way. Good luck and can I say I believe you are doing wonderfully well.

It's my duty to memorize the rules in grammar. I haven't memorized some but pursuing. I was studying about grammar, and I realized that there are things that I don't know still. My knowledge is not enough,I must never stop learning.

I had many difficulties learning English, because my high school teacher from first year to 3rd year sucks. I have some difficulties in using the right tense with my sentences. Sometimes I also mispronounce the word, specially words that I only read once and haven't heard the right pronunciation, diction is sometimes a problem to me. But with practice everyday, or reading 10 English word in a dictionary everyday can help you learn English faster.

English language was a difficult language for me because I couldn't speak fluent English and the horrible part is the grammar part when the teacher used to explain me I used to think is she speaking English or Greek it was that horrible for me but now I have a perfect command on the language and till now I can't understand grammar of it....you can learn any language but just you have to keep speaking it..

Hi BichDiep, my native language is Lithuanian and I find English difficult as well. However, I can share with you some useful tips that help me to improve my language skills. First of all, watching English movies, sitcoms especially with your native language subtitles help a lot. Secondly, reading English books, blog entries, newpapers and magazines make a great contribution to your language skills. Thirdly, talking with people in English as often as possible improves your speaking skills. Last but not least, I have noticed that thinking in English helps to activate my English vocabulary and to come up more often with rich phrases and verbal expressions that make my language more vivid. I hope you find this valuable. Best wishes, Kristina