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Post by Ofecks on Sept 18, 2022 13:47:36 GMT
It took me 5 years to finally pass my GCSE English O level. I kept on getting Grade D7 for English. English has never been my strong subject. The highest score I ever got for Comprehension/summary writing was 17 out of 50. In all fairness, English language is kind of a mess, and there are a lot of aspects about it that make little sense. Its difficulty for students is understandable.
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Post by Black Cat on Sept 18, 2022 15:45:24 GMT
In all fairness, English language is kind of a mess, and there are a lot of aspects about it that make little sense. Its difficulty for students is understandable. Are you sure you are talking about the English language and not French?
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Post by Honza on Sept 18, 2022 16:35:47 GMT
For basic understanding, it's quite easy. For deeper acquaitance, it's more and more a mess As our teacher told us in our very first class in basic school: "First of all, you have to realize that, unlike Czech, in English the word is spoken differently than it is written. For example, when English write 'Manchester', they read it as 'Liverpool', and vice versa."
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Post by Ofecks on Sept 19, 2022 15:59:22 GMT
Don't even get me started on written English. The pronunciation of vowels are both variable and arbitrary, the "soft" G, the letter C is completely redundant: "soft" version is already handled by S, "hard" version already handled by K, "ch-" words could be handled by "tsh" (although I admit "tships", "tshoices", "tshildren", "Frentsh", etc look quite silly). In my limited knowledge of Spanish and tiny amount of Japanese, both of those seem much more consistent and logical with their rules. edit: Hm, dunno about Spanish. The J (pronounced like "H"), the double L (pronounced like "Y"), the X... probably more I'm not thinking of. That sort of thing bothers me. Are you sure you are talking about the English language and not French? 100% true. Written French is utterly unpronounceable to me.
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