I think English is a very difficult language.

well, im learning english as my second language, i think spanish is harder because you need to memorize the whole verbs exceptions who are a lot, im colombian and i still learning some spanish words witch i dont know from books and the network, in spanish there is just 1 way to say what you want, in english there are a lot of ways to express what you want, also you learn english just with practice on the other hand spanish have a lot of verbs forms witch can confuse the one who want to learn the language (sorry about the low english level im just practicing)

I learned english through Television and Computer network :) never was teached english at all :) i think its pretty easy if you have a platform like TV to learn it from.

In my country, English is our second language.Mode of teaching in most of our school used English , so a little practice with the tenses and phonetics is the only difficulty we experience but aside from this it's easy.I would agree with other members who says that learning Spanish language is more difficult.We have some units of Spanish when I was in college but I haven't learned how to speak the language,maybe If we use it or speak the language more often learning will be easier.Mylot community helps members who wants to learn and speak English easily through responding/commenting on discussions..

The English language is more about remembering the rules for the different types of spelling and grammar. There are a lot of rules, but most of them are quite simple. Did you know that Spanish has different rules for genders? For example, when speaking to a friend you would use the gender rule for that specific gender. The Japanese language is hard too, because there are different ways to write the language. And each rule has a rule..which is really puzzling. Kanjis can be written two ways, and both make my head want to spin. So all languages are difficult to learn unless you are constantly exposed to them. But there are still some who are that are not able to fully learn. Yet, I've noticed that most people who have trouble with English excel at Math and vice versa.

Oh yes and I feel very proud of anyone who tries and is not ashamed because they are truly doing their best. I am Hispanic and many, especially the elders prefer only to speak in Spanish because they feel ashamed of accents. I personally am proud of anyone who tries.

Definitely, i think English is one difficult language to learn too. However, living in Singapore, we are all exposed to this language since young as it is our national language and therefore a compulsory language. I'm not sure if you have heard about Singlish where we mix Chinese, dialect and English together, one of our uniqueness (which is not a very good thing) Those grammar rules in English frustrate me too. Even until now, I am unable to memorise them all and so most of the time I answer question by sound!!

In fact I think English is already not a difficult language. I think that French is much more difficult and this is why I can't learn it yet. And actually I think that Chinese is much more difficult than French. I love China

Awww, stary I feel for you, I really do. English is the only language I know and I can see how some of our grammar rules can be very difficult. I actually admire anyone who can learn any different language, I have tried learning different languages and all I get is a few words and that is it..Plus I am taking English 112 right now and I am having problems, so I really admire one whose native tongue is not English and they take these classes...

yeah..who say that english is not difficult?? especially in my country when english is taught only in junior high school.. student who are smart when speak english is really smart in the eyes of their friend..it proves that english is really difficult.. and in every city of my country, there are many english course even it can`t guarantee that you can speak english after follow the course... once again, the key for learning is guarantee us for speaking english well even english is not easy language for some of us

As with anything that one learns, practice makes one perfect and this applies to learning a language not necessarily English. I started learning German and I have found it quite difficult but may be if I had practised incessantly I would have picked it up but I did not! And finally when it comes to oddities that you have pointed out "Ours is not to reason why but do or die"!

No friend English is not difficult language so many other languages which are very difficult than English. Even if you want to do the LLB in Hindi then this will be difficult but you choose the English medium for LLB field it is very easy.

Hi! I agree with you. English has a lot of rules. Even the Westerners are having a difficult time in the English grammar. Just keep practicing , and you will just get used to it.

I have to agree with Murfus, learning Spanish is harder. It took me about a year to learn how to write and fluently speak English. Even though Spanish is my first language, I am still learning and I'm still taking Spanish classes. English is way too easy, at least for me it is.

For me English is very easy language. I think we can learn any languages in the world. We, like human being, are same. We talk about same things, we have same needs. If you will try to listen more a language, try fo feel it like a song you'll see that a language is very easy to undersand. We just need to return to the age of our very young kids and to feel like them. Look, now I can write, speak and talk pretty good. But I don't know to much about rules, grammar and so one. Now I need to study grammar because people around me said that it's important and I'll study it. I understand very hard why I need to know rules, grammar and so on. If I know how to say, to write, to talk why I need to know "about" it. I'll look for anything which can help me to improve my English and to help others to study it in a very easy and fun ways. See you soon! Cata

Personally for me, I think there are harder languages out there to learn. Like take people from Ethiopia or the Phillipines for example. I would think learning their different dialects and such and then the correct meanings would be a little more harder than someone trying to learn English. Plus a lot of other countries are luckier now, as they are teaching English to the kids at a young age.

it is a hugely hard language. my inlaws are from Germany and my mother in law still prefers to speak German over English while my father in law learned it in Germany. its so hard because of words like too, to and two and words that are spelled the same but don't sound the same...i could go on and on!

English as in all other languages is not easy to master especially when one is not exposed to an English speaking environment. I can say English is the most beautiful language and mastering it needs a lot of in depth study which may take years before one can be called proficient be it spoken or written. English is rarely spoken in where I come from as our Government insist on prioritizing our national language giving English less importance in the country. Fortunately my early exposure to this language having stayed in a convent governed by western nuns had given me a strong foundation in English which has given me enough confidence to interact with the native speakers of this language.

hi stary1 I so so agree. Many come here with English as a second language and you can see them struggle at first then in only a few months they are writing almost as well as if they were born here in the Us.English is re ally a hard language to learn as we have so many exceptions for most rules like others before me have pointed out. I would really flounder, I would venture, if I tried to write in another language.To me French is hard as so many letters in their words are not even pronounced at all.I also admire all our mylotters who are learning English as a second language

I agree. There are so many rules set in place that it's hard to keep up. I don't understand how someone can memorize grammar rules, there's so many rules out there. I know spanish as well and it doesn't have that many rules, the rules are straight forward. But, English follows a whole another zip code.

Well, I guess having to learn a certain language (may it be English, Chinese or any other language) is really hard to learn when it is not your native language. Each language has its own uniqueness; has its own rules.