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English is Harder Than You Think

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    From my perespective as Ukrainian Dental fricative are pretty easy. Sounds /w/ and /v/ are not problem for me, but I uderstand that they may be for someone else. The same situation is with...

    From my perespective as Ukrainian

    • Dental fricative are pretty easy.
    • Sounds /w/ and /v/ are not problem for me, but I uderstand that they may be for someone else.
    • The same situation is with sibilant fricatives.
    • Vowels: for me problem isnʼt with short/long but a number of vowels; for example, I usually donʼt distinguish /ʌ/ and /a/.
    • A cluster of consonants usually isnʼt problem for me, Slavic languages are known for this too: žertv3, ôdkr3ıtı, hospodarstv4, morkv3, spr3avžn3ôstj2, vıčerpn3utı, sêljsjk3e, txn3utı, smertn3ıctv3o, zamkn3utı etc. Itʼs kinda ironic, because Slavic had a stage which was prety close to be just syllabaric as mentioned Japanese there.
    • Yes, having problem with grammar is pretty normal:
      • articles, indeed;
      • tenses are not so much hard, the main problem here is rare usage of some specific even among natives.
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