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since I actually had to learn English... I would say the worst is the grammar, because it lacks structure and it doesn't have rules... at least not in the sense of what a rule should be, there's so many exceptions, inconsistency and contradiction that you just have to keep memorizing it all in sets till you're familiar enough with all of it...
I could have said that pronunciation is the absolute worst while trying to learn English because it is even more bonkers than the grammar and because pronunciation is the one thing people around the world struggle the most but, in my case it was just easier to get familiar with it
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Grammar and formal rules like verb conjugations, when to use masculine/feminine forms with languages at have them, etc. I somehow excelled in pronunciation when I took French and Spanish.
I think my exposure to English and Japanese gave me enough of a range to adapt to pronunciations easily including rolling r's and trills. But I struggle a lot with grammar and formal rules.
I suspect when I'm learning a new language that I sound like this in English: "Me want go store. Where store? Thank you so very much!"
How to say it and mainly "Why". Why do I say it like this and not that? Like uuuh quick example of my french classes
je voudrais vais 'a la metro. = I would like to go to the metro.
You probably thinking what's the "to"? Is it vais or-No. It's been wiped from existence. No need to put it there. :) But why? I don't know.
I’d say the pronunciation of words. I know I get embarrassed if I pronounce something incorrectly. But really if you think about the way children develop language, we all make mistakes that are corrected in time.
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The hardest thing for me is a combination of limited vocabulary and understanding what someone is saying. I can usually pick up pronunciation and writing, but my brain wants to translate what I hear into English (my native language) and that delay, coupled with my limited vocabulary, makes it hard for me to hear and understand what someone is saying. I can usually speak the language well enough to get my point across, using my limited vocabulary, but the reverse is hard.
For me it's associated words.
Having read so much and being exposed to Spanish when I was young and then stumbling across Latin... when I studied Spanish I realized that there were some French and Italian and Portuguese and Romanian words that I understood.In the English to American the one that bugs me is when us people in England call a vacuum cleaner a Hoover this is incorrect. Hoover is a brand name and not interchangeable with vacuum cleaner. Stop doing it people!
In English it's pronunciation. English isn't exactly a phonetic language.
I think it differs from one language to another. Slavic languages are grammatical nightmare for foreigners, in other Germanic languages vowels tend to be forgotten to speak out by native speakers...For French it's pronunciation for me. I just can't make the French sounds it all sounds the same to my ear.
For Turkish it's grammar. Verbs are at the end of the sentence and they capture all the inflections stated in the beginning of the sentence. It's like I have to remember everything I said when I say the verb haha. Oh yeah also vocab is completely different from Western European languages. Just everything related to Turkish is hard haha.Grammer.
I have been taking French for some time and I can hack my way through a decent conversation but the Grammer ( read verb conjugation) is a pain in the ass.Trying to learn a new language without trying to apply the rules of your native language is hard.
Umm, all of it! lol I don't know how people do it or remember it? Why can't the world use 1 language? lol
None of those! The hardest is staying consistent!
Just the amount of stuff there is to learn. Not any one thing in particular. It just takes time to become fluent and I wish there were a quicker way
Conjugation is always the hardest for me.
Tones, by far. Grammar is usually little problem.
Well all USA words are better
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