What are the difficulties that an English native speaker may face when learning a new language?
Are you learning Italian? What are your difficulties and how do you think you can overcome them? In my opinion, the biggest stone are difficult sounds and lack of practice/vocab. What do you think?
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I have been trying to study Korean for six months, and the worst part is that there is no one with whom I can practice speaking or listening to the language. We require water exposure in order to learn how to swim. In the same vein, exposure to native speakers is necessary if we are to master the language we want to learn.
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I feel like each language it’s own challenges, while learning spanish I struggled understanding the syntax and with korean I had trouble with pronunciation and character recognition, but with the right amount of practice and dedication nothing’s unachievable 👍🏼
these are just like the other people face to learn English. The biggest main difficulty is that we can't find natives easily to practice the language with them.
I think the difficulty I face is in my husband's language, they have so many different meaning for the same word. If you use it wrong, then they laugh at you.
My difficulty is the millions of words and structures which I need to learn, it's time-consuming!
- John Kenmuir(AKA John Connor) Cambridge certified teacher since 1998, former IELTS speaking examiner
There are many difficulties an English speaker would face but I think the biggest one would be vocabulary. There are many words in the English language that were "borrowed" from other languages; however, sometimes the meanings and usage of these words is different in each language (English and the target language), not to mention the pronunciation. For example, cul-de-sac is an English word borrowed from French. In English it means a road that ends abruptly and doesn't go anywhere (also called a "dead end"); in French, a cul-de-sac is the bottom of a bag or sack. The most difficult part of learning any new language is identifying the differences between your L1 (first or native language) and the language you want to learn (the target language). This applies to not just word definitions but also word pronunciation, word spelling and grammar. It also tells us that an effective learning strategy is to focus on and learn the differences; thereby reducing mistakes before they happen.
I think pronouncing words and putting them together in oder is a problem
I think pronunciation and sentence order may be an issue.
I think the pronunciation and learning how to format sentences. Also practicing would be hard if no one can help to correct you
