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    6 months ago

    I’ve never heard anyone saying English is hard. The only hard part of English is the pronunciation, because it doesn’t make sense, you just have to know all the words…

    It’s wide adoption has probably been helped by the ease of learning its basics.

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        6 months ago

        Nah. If I say “I thinked” instead of “I thought”, I’m pretty sure you’re going to understand me anyway. And with the written form you don’t have problems with stuff like “read-read” or “colonel”.

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      6 months ago

      To my surprise, I have heard a lot of French people say English is easy to learn.