Why do you think English is difficult language?

I find english very easy....but then again i am english....

I find english very easy....but then again i am english....

Learning languages gets harder, the older you get. The fact that you've been learning it *in school* for 7 years means that you're at the right age for learning languages. It's also possible that you have a better teacher than the others you talk with. Overall, I find English very easy. Then again, I'm Irish.

I agree with you pal, don't get excited about it.

You say it's not that hard but you've been learning for 7 years and I could point out a number of grammatical faults. I'm not criticising as it's extremely difficult to learn a language, I'm just saying that those errors don't really help the point you're trying to make. English does have some tricky grammatic rules and irregularities. Perhaps not learning the basics is that hard, but English has been aroud for so long and evolved much more that other languages, that to speak it like a native is difficult. The number of words in the English language compared to other languages is like the population of China to the rest of the world. Which is one of the reasons why it is a good language for poetry - many synonymous words with subtle differences in meaning.

You say it's not that hard but you've been learning for 7 years and I could point out a number of grammatical faults. I'm not criticising as it's extremely difficult to learn a language, I'm just saying that those errors don't really help the point you're trying to make. English does have some tricky grammatic rules and irregularities. Perhaps not learning the basics is that hard, but English has been aroud for so long and evolved much more that other languages, that to speak it like a native is difficult. The number of words in the English language compared to other languages is like the population of China to the rest of the world. Which is one of the reasons why it is a good language for poetry - many synonymous words with subtle differences in meaning.

I agree with you pal, don't get excited about it.

According to the US Foreign Service Institute, learning an easy language takes 600 hours of class. Do you have any idea how many hours you've spent learning it? Listening to songs on the radio, watching movies and TV-series with subtitles, using the internet... English has a horribly irregular spelling, tons of synonyms, homonyms, homographs (read/read, record/record, wind/wind), homophones (like SW11 said) and a lot of irregular verbs. To be honest, I too used to think it was easy and didn't understand why it was so hard for others (obviously, I have some talent for english). Then at some point I learned Esperanto, and I did understand.

I would imagine that English is a hard language to learn.many of our words spell and sound the same but have different meanings. For example I read your question. An hour ago or am I still reading it? Where, wear and ware. Two, too and to. There, their and they're. They are just many off of the top of my head. That and the different expressions/slang words that we use!