No wonder foreigners struggle with the English language

[Fan of Big Tone]

This made me larf.

 

[super_ram]

How do you pronounce the letters OUGH in a word.Is it uff as in Brian Clough or is oo as in through.Though then again it could be (h)ow as in a main branch-bough.The Irish call a lake a Lough.It's very confusing.Is it uff,oo,o,ow or ock.It's enough to make you cough.Oh dear now there's an off too.There ought ( another one) to be some help for us English as well as foreigners.

[DangerousSausage]

My ex used to pronounce thigh "thig". Which was hilarious.

[Elite_pie]

Apparently English is one of the most difficult languages to master.

I found it quite easy, in fact I learned it as a child.

[Chris]

I feel the older generation such as @super_ram, @Fan of Big Tone and probably @Elite_pie had very good English teachers.

In primary school mine was useless, I only learned to read and write once I moved school's and much of this occurred in my final year (year 6). I might be far from the best but it's much better than a lot of those that use social media and have been taught properly. It's worth noting that a lot of other issues have come about such as a rise in dyslexia but I do feel a lot of the issues these days stem from bad teachers and lazy people.

When I see text language being used by anyone older than me I cringe but I do not become the grammar police either.   

[Fan of Big Tone]

18 minutes ago, Chris said:

 

When I see text language being used by anyone older than me I cringe but I do not become the grammar police either.   

Wot u on about m8.

[cheeky~k8]

I think it is partly down to how its being used nowadays. Most people either use text talk or use a computer so don't need to learn to spell, making it harder to learn how to speak english too.

Even at superpies school now they mainly use a chromebook in lessons and bring that home to do homework on, so they don't even need to have good handwriting or be good at spelling. We even have to pay to rent it every year as compulsory. This to me is a ridiiculous idea as writing on paper is just as important.

[Magic magpie]

Well these days people don’t use proper English it’s all txt and internet speak. 

Which makes it harder to teach the next generation of English speaker. 

@super_ram and @Fan of Big Tone grew up in the time of speaking English right no txt talk or anything like that just proper English. 

[Fan of Big Tone]

I’ve worked in the printing industry all my life, if I spelt anything wrong or got punctuation wrong I was for the high jump. I hate to see bad spelling and text talk it just goes against everything I’ve ever known BUT times change I understand that and I try to move on but it’s hard.

[Piethagoram]

@DangerousSausage German seems so much easier

 

[Piethagoram]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10280244/Translation-table-explaining-the-truth-behind-British-politeness-becomes-internet-hit.html

[Magic magpie]

On 04/11/2018 at 20:47, Fan of Big Tone said:

I’ve worked in the printing industry all my life, if I spelt anything wrong or got punctuation wrong I was for the high jump. I hate to see bad spelling and text talk it just goes against everything I’ve ever known BUT times change I understand that and I try to move on but it’s hard.

It’s hard to change your mind set especially when you have been taught something is correct then it changes. 

Like you say  your livelihood has depended on you being correct with spelling grammar etc.

[Magic magpie]

12 hours ago, Piethagoram said:

@DangerousSausage German seems so much easier

 

Fantastic usiage  ... can I have a bitte please

[cheeky~k8]

1 hour ago, Magic magpie said:

It’s hard to change your mind set especially when you have been taught something is correct then it changes. 

Like you say  your livelihood has depended on you being correct with spelling grammar etc.

If you mis- say something, you are likely to mis spell it too.

[Magic magpie]

3 hours ago, cheeky~k8 said:

If you mis- say something, you are likely to mis spell it too.

I’m going to agree I tend to say a word I can’t spell then spell it from what I’ve said .. so that’s very true 

[cheeky~k8]

Some of our spelling arn't logical all the time.

[super_ram]

Recipe must be a word that confuses many people.Why isn't who spelt hoo.Any other suggestions?

[cheeky~k8]

Suggestions could be words with silent letters like doubt etc.

[super_ram]

8 minutes ago, cheeky~k8 said:

Suggestions could be words with silent letters like doubt etc.

Even words like words!

[cheeky~k8]

there are quite alot, which we learn to spell at a young age but not everyone does.

[liampie]

all language is funny but i read something about how our brains can fill in the gaps provided you mostly spelled the right words.

[CliftonMagpie]

I know everyone makes mistakes and I am one of those people who just accepts it, yet a lot of English people struggle with the basics.

[super_ram]

On 27/11/2018 at 23:26, super_ram said:

Even words like words!

Word,Curd,Bird-shouldn't they be spelt Werd,Cerd,Berd-how absurd.

[super_pie]

What even was that?