English Is Not Only A Hard Subject

Once you start attending school you are given many subjects to study. There are several subjects you are expected to learn; History, Science Math and English just to name a few. And as you’re going through elementary, high school, and into college you are learning about all of these subjects in addition to others. Most people decide what the most difficult subject is by the amount of homework given or even by the time spent studying and memorizing it. But English is in a category all its own. Without English, none of the other subjects would even exist on paper or within our speech either. And this is only one of the reasons it can be a difficult subject. There are a lot of weight riding on you being capable to understand and comprehend the language you are native to. So it would be safe in saying that English is not only a hard subject, but that English is the most difficult subject of study to humankind.

In the English language there are many diverse types of words for the same meaning or there are numerous words that mean the same exact matter only slightly different. Words can be spelled in many various ways and pronounced in unusual ways too, depending on your accent mostly. And here is where some of the problems occur. You see, if you learn by the spelling alone and then you try to pronounce the word without assistance you may end up saying it incorrectly. For example the word ‘tough’ should be pronounced as ‘tuf.’ But at the same time if you look at the word ‘dough’ it isn’t pronounced the same. Two words that have the same –ough at the end and yet they sound completely different. (Beare, Kenneth) If you only went by the way the word looks you may end up pronouncing these words the same. But then there are those homonyms ...

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...e English tongue. And with all the many exceptions to rules and all the different concepts to be learned it can make it more difficult for newcomers to pick up. Or subtle wording or stressing of words that make it more pronounced or bold. Or just simply the way the wording should be set up into a sentence. Most of these are things natives of the language don’t actually realize because of how often it is used. But it can be a very complicated and confusing process to learn and understand the rules and all the words that break that rule. To conclude English is very important to the American way of life and among other nations that have English has their native language. But it can be a very confusing and complex system to learn and for people foreign to the language a very impossible seeming feat. That is why English is the most difficult subject of study to humankind.