Do you think English is a language that came out of hell just to make your life harder? The good news is that you're not alone: millions of Spanish-speaking English learners can understand these 10 tortures.
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1) The relationship between how English sounds and how it is written is… random
Read in the present tense is pronounced “rid.” Rid , written as is, means “to panama phone number list undone.” But read in the past tense is pronounced red, which is also how “red” is written and pronounced. And so on, all the time.
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2) The English classes you have taken at school are absolutely useless
Suddenly, you arrive in another country and discover that knowing the difference between the past perfect continuous and the past pluperfect is absolutely useless when asking which metro stop you have to change at. Amazing.
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3) “ Yes ” and smiling are your new answer for everything
4) You have learned that the Oxford Dictionary lists 414,800 words in English
The entire Royal Spanish Academy has 93,000.
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5) You are terrified of sounding like Ana Botella
In fact, sometimes you have nightmares from which you wake up sweating and muttering "café con leche."
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6) Furthermore, a word can have an almost infinite number of definitions.
Run can refer to the verb “to run” and the noun “race.” Or to making something work. Or to a streak. Or to a straight run of cards. Or to an election bid. Or to…
The 10 Tortures Only an English Learner Can Understand
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