Learning the English Language: No Doubt The Hardest Language to Understand

If you have mastered the English language then you must be a total genius as it is one of the hardest languages to learn. I am almost certain that the word "certain" should start with an 'S', but some creative mind thought that a 'C' would look prettier on paper. The scariest thing to take into account is that before a person learns various words from the English language, they have to first learn the eight parts of speech which include nouns, verbs, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Then there is that small matter of punctuation which includes commas and quotation marks.

Whoever invented the English language must have had an overly creative mind and a lot of time on their hands as it is speculated that there are millions of distinct English words for anyone learning to digest, and this doesn't even include new words from the technical and regional vocabulary that have yet to be added to the published dictionary. It is estimated that twenty per cent of older words are no longer in use, and are completely omitted from the dictionary as room is needed for the trendier current versions of old worn out words.

Only a complete lunatic would have thought to take a single word and give it multiple meanings, and to add insult to injury, they spelled it in various ways to really boggle your mind. At other times the words are spelled the same, but have completely different meanings. A perfectly legitimate example is "The picture of the pitcher was worth a mint"! Not the mint that you eat, but a mint as in a fortune. Another oldie, but goody is "I would like to present you with this present". In short, the English language isn't for dummies, but it has no problem making you feel like one.