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ProblemsWithLearningtheEnglishLanguageErikSteelErikSteelisagraduateoftheUniversityofMichigan,earninghisbachelor'sdegreeinRussian.SteelhasworkedaswriterformorethanfouryearsandhascontributedcontenttoeHowandPluckonDemand.Hisworkrecentlyappearedintheliteraryjournal"ArsenicLobster."ByErikSteel,eHowContributorEnglishpresentsanumberofissuestonon-native(andsometimesnative)speakers.Itisgrammaticallyunlikeotherlanguages,eventhosefromwhichithasborrowedlargevocabularygroups,andpossessesanumberofirregularities.UnderstandingthesefeaturesofEnglishmayhelpthenon-nativespeakergraspthelanguageandhelpnativespeakersseewhylearningEnglishcanbesodifficult.RelatedLanguagesOneproblemwithlearningEnglishisthatisnotdirectlyrelatedtomanylanguages.ThetwoclosestareScotsandFrisian,buteventhesearenot,forthemostpart,mutuallyintelligiblewithEnglish.Oneofthethingsthatmakeslearninganewlanguageeasierisalreadyspeakingarelatedlanguage,andveryfewpeoplespeaklanguagescloselyrelatedtoEnglish.PluralNounsThoughmostnounsinEnglishsimplyadd"s"totheirsingularformtocreatetheplural,therearemanyexceptionstothisrule.Theseincludewordsendingin"f"or"fe"(wife/wives,knife/knives),wordsendingin"y"(spy/spies,fly/flies),wordsthatchangeinteriorvowelsounds(man/men;mouse/mice),andOldEnglishplurals,suchaschild/childrenandox/oxen.VerbTensesEnglishhasarelativelylargenumberofverbtenses,thecorrectmasteringofwhichisimportantforcommunicatingshadesofmeaninginEnglish.Tocomplicatethedifficulty,Englishusesmanyauxiliarywords,insteadofverbalinflection,tocreateitstenses.IrregularVerbsEnglishhasmanyirregularverbs.SomeEnglishverbsarealteredradicallyinconjugation(drink/drank/drunk,grow/grew/grown),whileothersdonotchangeatall,suchasburst/burst/burstandcast/cast/cast.WritingSystemThereisoftenlittleconnectionbetweenthewayawordiswrittenandthewayitispronounced.Considercoughvs.throughandfloodvs.door.Otherinconsistenciesincludeheteronyms,wordsthatarespelledthesamebutpronounceddifferently,suchaswound(wrappedup)andwound(aninjury),androw(afi