English, the most Misunderstood Language in the Modern World

Speaking English isn’t the hard part, it’s reading and writing, more so writing that’s the problem. Do you agree? Do you disagree?

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Learning to speak the English language isn’t hard. If you’re around it all the time, that is if you’re around native speakers, you listen to the radio, watch television, or watch Youtube videos in English you will pick it up. Picking up the language isn’t the issue though, if you’re exposed to a language long enough you will pick it up, later you will see that it’s writing that’s the issue.

I lived in northern Maine — just a few miles from the Canadian border — when I was little. When I was little I watched a lot of television, this was before cable — the late 60s and early 70s — so we didn’t have a lot of channels to choose from. Because we were so close to the Canadian border all the channels we had to choose from were in French; there was only one English speaking channel but it was too boring for a preschool child. Needless to say I watched the Canadian channels.

I watched Popeye in French. I watched Mr.Magoo in French. I watched Mighty Mouse in French. I watched everything in French and before I knew it, my first words were in French. I had to…