It's interesting because if you're a native speaker, it's easy to forget that things, not just spelling and inconsistency, but also how when you get into spaces where people are speaking it casually *There is SO much slang...*
There's no necessary to make worry about the Slangs that many follow in the different part of the areas. So, no worry ! Slangs may be very common and differed from one to another. So try to keep learning up !
English is easy in the beginning. Then as you progress, you realize how much there is that you don't know and it becomes harder. But if you know enough, if you heard much English, it becomes easy again.
I have a similar experience like yours. In the beginning I studied the rules. But after some time I found that there were simply no rules in English because there were more exceptions to the rules than the rules themselves. In fact till today, I still need to check the dictionary when I speak and write English because each word in English is used so differently in different sentences or situations.
As a native English speaker, I've always heard that learning English as a non native English speaker is very difficult, and im just here to find out exactly why haha
Perhaps cuz you are in an entirely environment full of natives English speakers and can correct yourself every day regarding pronunciation, grammar structures, listening so on...yo soy hispano hablante y al ustedes no tener declinaciones en sus verbos such as: me, se, nos, or also " re" en la declinación del verbo en el futuro en fin , you know, a second foreign language always takes time for anyone but it is more obvious when it comes to learning English. Tongue so inconsistent. Jajaja that is all.
A correction and an apology! In this lesson, I used "the Ukraine" as one of my examples. I should have chosen a different example, as it is simply "Ukraine." "The Ukraine" was used by many English sources prior to the country's independence. I apologize for this error.
I’m here watching this as a native English speaker not to learn, but more so how to teach English. I want to eventually teach and this was super helpful. These are things as English speakers that we don’t realize make no sense to those learning
So true Will! Like Phrasal verbs- I literally didn't knwo what that meant. Then once I got it...I realized wow that's crazy, it's not logical at all...and I understood why that is such a big topic for English learners.
As a native speaker of English, I’d have to say the hardest parts are the spelling and pronunciation. The grammar is fairly easy though. All in all, English can really help you if you decide to stick with it and never give up 💯
Studying all the different meanings and colloquialisms from a list would be a nightmare! I'm a native speaker and I hear things that don't make sense sometimes, my partner moved around a lot, she used to use words and phrases I had never heard before, context wasn't always enough, people will usually be happy to explain if you don't understand something. If I come across an expression I haven't heard before, I will try to use it a few times myself to imprint it on my mind, I'd do this for my own native language or for any language I'm trying to learn, you are just learning different ways of saying things, you are always learning new things, even in your own language, nobody understands every word, definition and expression in any language, imitate what the people around you are saying and ask if you are struggling, treat it like you would in your native language! You'll soon learn the little idiomatic patterns of the group you are hanging out with!
Most people that i know are more than happy to help new English speakers with word usage and phrasing. I work at Walmart, and i love to help explain things out. Also, it really helps if this person shows their willingness to learn as well as practice what they've learned
Hi Alex my name's Fredy and I'm from Guatemala, a small coutry located in Central America. I agree with everything you just said and you said something else, the magic word " practice " you know It was hard for me to learn how to speak English but a long time ago I had the chance to go to the U S A and I lived there for five or six years, I don't exactly remember but I learned how to speak it, even though I studied it in my country then I had to go back to my country and I stopped practicing but I met a guy named Larry, he was a U S citizen and he lived in my country for six years I guess, so I started practicing with him for three years but again he had to go back to his country because he is a veteran of war, since then I haven't practiced it at all because I don't have anybody who to talk to in English but with your video lesson I've had the chance to brush up on my English and better yet I've learned new things about the language and ones again I completly agree with you it's hard at the beginning but I think I speak it better now than before but if you want to surpass all the problems that you just mentioned " you just got to practice the language all the time " that's the solution. well Alex I have told you the history of my life and I'll be waiting for your video lessons in order to learn more, thanks for paying attention to my comments bye.
Look, I happened to learn two more foreign languages in addition to English, and I tell you - English is really simple to learn and to use. But I still have a big problem: to understand English from (or, by?) listening is really hard. English words are very short - mostly one or two syllables. Often zero sillables (contractions). And yes, phrasal verbs suck.
About "CLEAN UP". I am not a native English speaker, so all what I say here is IMHO. I read somewhere that the preposition "UP" can impart a shade of completeness to the meaning of the verb. As an example from real life, when I worked in a store, my boss used "SWEEP" and "SWEEP UP" depending on the situation. When he gave me a general assignment to sweep the whole floor in the store, he used to say: "SWEEP THE FLOOR". But in case a minor spill had happened in a particular spot, he would say: "SWEEP UP this spill". I understand that in the case of a minor spill he assumed that I could finish the sweeping in one run bc the spill was minor.
I’m from North Texas and we have a lot of immigrants here from Mexico and Central America. I manage rental properties and I took over a property that was nearly full of monolingual Spanish speakers. I decided it was the perfect opportunity to learn. I even decided to move on-site and now I am in daily communication with my neighbors. If I learn Spanish I also want to encourage them to speak English. If I understand English objectively I can explain to them the difficulties they may face. I have made friends in Spanish now and if they are here I figured it would be kind to encourage them to learn English to increase their opportunities while they are living here in the states. Many of them are sending money home so it will only better their lives. Loved the insight in this video. Thank you sir!
I grew up speaking English and I'm always so impressed when a non native English speaking person, well, speaks English to me. I don't care if your accent is good or if I have trouble understanding every word you're trying to say, I still appreciate it and am impressed with your effort and accomplishment. I know some Americans are jerks about it, but I'm impressed as hell.
For me, as a Portuguese speaker, the R sound is the biggest challenge, because the way I pronounce the R sound is pretty different from the pronunciation of the R sound in English words, so I'm still getting used to pronouncing the R sound of yours hahaha. By the way, such a great video.
What makes this even more confusing is that there is high variability in the pronunciation of the R sound among English speakers. If you are from the South East of England or Australia the R sound is very soft (almost silent) whereas most Scottish and American accents have a highly pronounced round R. As a Scot, I found it interesting that Americans have no problem with my accent whereas Australians struggle.
15:16 Native English speaker here. Not to nitpick, but English doesn't have future tense, but future aspect. English doesn't denote the future with an actual separate tense. Most native English speakers don't know this fact. 😁
Yeah, the English grammar books that I learned with teach “the 12 tenses,” but I’m aware English only has two tenses and then variations of those tenses, as well as phrases and modals to express intent. 👍
Once again, you're amazing. Yes, I think the same, English is difficult too. I've been studying English for over 5 months and these ones have been my nightmares (well, less tenses and articles) When your channel showed up and I started watching, I got obsessed for your videos. I wrote down your channel on my schedule as my course. Thank you so much for your work and support. I've been learning too much. Please, keep making amazing videos.
Jesus Christ - only 5 months!?? I'm native English and I somewhat find this disheartening because your English here is so good and in the same time I've been learning Spanish and can honestly say I can only string together a few words! wtf! And I'm going hell for leather!
English regional accents can be hard to understand,like Geordie or Scouse.but language is great, that's what makes it so much fun, wherever you hail from and what ever language you speak, language, dialects and cultural differences make language such fun.
I'm from Yorkshire and I lived in Lancashire when I was a kid, some of the pronunciations of words are markedly different, even though it's only a short hop across the Pennines, that's what makes language beautiful, because people have their own idiosyncrasies.long live different languages and different dialects, whatever country you come from 👍
In the past, the Guinness Book of Records ranked the Greek language as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types! :) I speak fluently Albanian, Greek, and trying to learn English, and then Italian or spanish in the future :D Such a great video.
I have been studying learning English on line for some time now but I STILL FACE some challenges when it comes to English Speaking fluency. I often feel lost when ever I WANT to express myself during very important engagements.Sir, could you kindly help me break this barrier by teaching me the simplest most convenient way to master English and be able to speak fluently and confidently. YOU are ABSOLUTELY GREAT and I enjoy every piece of your presentation.
If you missed my lesson on how English is EASY to learn, catch up here: ruclips.net/video/gh0AxqLMGDk/видео.html A correction and an apology! In this lesson, I used "the Ukraine" as one of my examples. I should have chosen a different example, as it is simply "Ukraine." "The Ukraine" was used by many English sources prior to the country's independence. I apologize for this error.
It has been 4 months that I moved to Canada . I thought I was really good at English then the plane is arrived to the Toronto airport and I found out that not even close . I am studying and my classes are online . I live with my sister so don't have a chance to talk English . Could't find a part time job because of the anxiety i am going through . That is tough ,definetely it is .
@@RR-yg3mr kinda yes I have started working on Jun it has been almost 5 months my english is so much better now still not enough but i am making a progress every single day
What I find difficult about English language is the following: 1. Pronunciation 2. Phrasal verbs 3. Idioms Anyway, there are way harder languages to learn. Try any Slavic one.
what I find hard to teach is some of the words changes and suffix is added. specially the er ist or. maker, doctor dentist etc. there is no clear rule when to use the right suffix. its like lottery if they are begginers.
For me prepositions are sometimes tricky and writing the words correctly, I always wonder did I miss the letter or something lol but reading, speaking and generally understanding the language comes easy to me. Btw slavic person here 😅
Native Texan here. The spelling is a nightmare. We spent a LOT of time in school on spelling and I can't spell very well decades later. Thank goodness for Google. I didn't notice the pronunciation being a problem. I think kids pick up their local pronunciation no matter how difficult foreigners consider it to be. In general, nouns and verbs are a lot easier than in many other languages. A person can get started in English pretty quickly and then as you progress, you pick up the more difficult features.
English verb conjugations are a snap compared to languages like French Spanish or German. Even with an irregular verb like "to swim", Once you know "swim, swam, swum", It's conjugated exactly the same as a regular verb and there's hardly any variation throughout. No constant changing of endings. Can you remember "will"? Then you already have learned the future tense. Other aspects of English are indeed quite difficult it would seem to me.
Thank you for some great education, but I have this thing which I wish those who teach language would get correct: "Verb Tense" is the conjugation of a verb to describe when in time an action happens i.e. past, present, or future. English has e.g. "I played.", "I play., and "I will play.". Notice how "play" changes only once i.e. in the past whereas it is the same in the present and future; only two distinct grammaticalized verb forms distinguishing time therefore only two tenses: the past and the non-past. This does not mean that English cannot communicate the future, rather it is done by means other than conjugating the verb: with auxiliaries, adverbs etc. French has "J'ai joué.", "je joue.", and "je jouerai." which are three distinct grammaticalized verb forms distinguishing time therefore three tenses. continuous
Thank you for explaining this. This video helps me think it’s okay to think English is difficult. My motivation for practicing English is loosing these days and I feel like I don’t wanna study English anymore…. Because In my country, having a skill of English is related to social status, which give me too much pressure to study.
Another issue that makes it difficult is word pronunciation variations, for example, those words that have weak forms, or changes that happen when linking words in normal speech (some sounds are dropped). Because we usually learn words in isolation and in their strong forms, not in the ways they sound in different contexts.
You inspire me a lot to learn english. My friend brought you up and since that day I cant stop watching your videos. I send my regards from Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
Hi teacher Alex, I really love your lessons and they help me a lot! You make everything clear and enjoyable. I wish had every English native speaker talks like you. I struggle with "Th" and for sure some phrases verbs (sometimes they don't make sense... but I know it's because I'm still thinking in Portuguese). For me as a Brazilian, it's a challenge. I have been practice a lot and as you said I try do not to be so hard with me because of my pronounce, in the past, it made me sad about learning and improve it.
Some English speaker have trouble with th. Personally, I don't. But I know a lot of natives that pronounce it like the letter f. It can more of slang thing , though. If you pronounce th as f people will still understand you. I think some people pronounce it also as v in slang but I'm not too sure about that one.
Hi, teacher. Nice to see you again. Good idea to explain the facts that make English difficult. Whether English is difficult or not, it's a wonderful language, which is pretty necessary throughout the world. Thank you so much for teaching us so important language. I wish you the best of luck.
As a native English speaker, the sheer difficulty of the language became apparent when I considered the following: comb, tomb, and bomb; to, too, and two; there, their, and they’re.
At least with the articles, incorrect articles will not usually stop a native speaker from understanding you. They come in handy in some situations for creating certain implications, but in most situations one could guess the intended meaning from context. There's a reason plenty of languages get along just fine without them.
Mr. Alex. You are an amazing and really great teacher. I love your insightful perspective and i love your simple, yet deep approach to explaining liguistic aspects of English. Thank you for your good work.
GOOD LESSON, GOOD TEACHER! I have beening learning English for many years, I am here to learn more, but the for the beginers, how can they understand an English teacher teaching English in English.
Hi, Alex... you know, for me English, though, it is my passion is.., you can say : crazy, and sometimes irrational, for example: if the past of the verb " lead" is "led" ,why the verb "read" is not " red ...red red", we have almost identical twin verbs -so to speak - except the consonants "L & R" . Eventually, as my teacher said to me :English is consistently inconsistent.!!!!!! *But really what is difficult, and I always find it challenging is the "Media Language" used in the press of today and Satellite TV News Channels. I hope and I would love very much you could give a lesson on this matter soon. Thanks with appreciation.,,,
Well, although the past tense of read is read, it is _pronounced_ as “red”. So the way it _sounds_ (in past tense) is: I’ve “red” that book, but you have to write: I’ve read that book.
@@johnjohntv1195 Thanks so much .. yes I know very much it 's "read", and pronounced as "red" ..I 'm an English teacher .. but my wonder is why not the pronunciation meets the writing as in led pp. of lead .. some troublesome students, so to speak, put one in a tight corner by asking in matters of such similarities and peculiar differences on words that share common features of phonic transcriptions ,syllables, consonants, and vowels.
I think English is a good lingua franca, because it is relatively easy up to "the reward period", when you can start watching films and listening to audiobooks and all the stuff.
The short answer is that English has changed, since the rules were set up and words were dictionarified. Basically, the words have changed, the usage has changed and the rules have changed.
Base on my experience learning English is really effective specially if you're a student, because you don't have to force yourself to learn english at once. Sometimes, i was wondering because i learnt to speak English first before i study grammar which is really tough. One thing I've learned is people can learn English without studying grammar specially if you're surrounded by an english native speaker.
Wow Alex, thanks for share this with us. "Focus on be understandable no perfect" in fact I I understand almost all, but when I try to Express I made many mistakes
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It's interesting because if you're a native speaker, it's easy to forget that things, not just spelling and inconsistency, but also how when you get into spaces where people are speaking it casually
*There is SO much slang...*
There's no necessary to make worry about the Slangs that many follow in the different part of the areas. So, no worry ! Slangs may be very common and differed from one to another. So try to keep learning up !
English is easy in the beginning. Then as you progress, you realize how much there is that you don't know and it becomes harder. But if you know enough, if you heard much English, it becomes easy again.
I have a similar experience like yours. In the beginning I studied the rules. But after some time I found that there were simply no rules in English because there were more exceptions to the rules than the rules themselves. In fact till today, I still need to check the dictionary when I speak and write English because each word in English is used so differently in different sentences or situations.
@@eugenec7130 You need to work on you grammar.
@@eugenec7130 pls don’t listen to the other guy your grammar is literally fine
@@eugenec7130 doing a good job!
@@sloogles5939 check your own grammar before criticising others’ lol
“Don’t worry about being perfect, worry about being understood.” I love that ✨
You're right.
It is very true...dont ever be self conscious...just speak as best as you can :)
dont feel sorry for trying to communicate
So true
Goodness me too
As a native English speaker, I've always heard that learning English as a non native English speaker is very difficult, and im just here to find out exactly why haha
Perhaps cuz you are in an entirely environment full of natives English speakers and can correct yourself every day regarding pronunciation, grammar structures, listening so on...yo soy hispano hablante y al ustedes no tener declinaciones en sus verbos such as: me, se, nos, or also " re" en la declinación del verbo en el futuro en fin , you know, a second foreign language always takes time for anyone but it is more obvious when it comes to learning English. Tongue so inconsistent. Jajaja that is all.
A correction and an apology! In this lesson, I used "the Ukraine" as one of my examples. I should have chosen a different example, as it is simply "Ukraine." "The Ukraine" was used by many English sources prior to the country's independence. I apologize for this error.
Thank you very much, Alex, for paying attention to my comment! It is another proof of being a wonderful teacher!
Thanks you very much for teach me
@@annaivanova87 Thanks, Anna! And thank you for helping me learn something! :)
@@engvidAlex Oh, you can't even imagine how much I've learned from you!
@@ylin8469 "...for teaching me." :) Use a gerund after a preposition.
My pleasure!
I’m here watching this as a native English speaker not to learn, but more so how to teach English. I want to eventually teach and this was super helpful. These are things as English speakers that we don’t realize make no sense to those learning
So true Will! Like Phrasal verbs- I literally didn't knwo what that meant. Then once I got it...I realized wow that's crazy, it's not logical at all...and I understood why that is such a big topic for English learners.
As a native speaker of English, I’d have to say the hardest parts are the spelling and pronunciation. The grammar is fairly easy though. All in all, English can really help you if you decide to stick with it and never give up 💯
All things are difficult before they are easy
Good one
yesss love this! So so true
One of my biggest problems is to understand common people talking day by day. It's not the same than hear a teacher like you who speaks clearly.
"Don't worry about being perfect - worry about being understood" Best Line
Здравей, Алекс! Много поздрави от България! 🍀
Studying all the different meanings and colloquialisms from a list would be a nightmare! I'm a native speaker and I hear things that don't make sense sometimes, my partner moved around a lot, she used to use words and phrases I had never heard before, context wasn't always enough, people will usually be happy to explain if you don't understand something. If I come across an expression I haven't heard before, I will try to use it a few times myself to imprint it on my mind, I'd do this for my own native language or for any language I'm trying to learn, you are just learning different ways of saying things, you are always learning new things, even in your own language, nobody understands every word, definition and expression in any language, imitate what the people around you are saying and ask if you are struggling, treat it like you would in your native language! You'll soon learn the little idiomatic patterns of the group you are hanging out with!
I am an English teacher and I am watching your video to polish up my teaching skills. I like your content. Thank you for the videos.
Polish, shine up. Or Polish, a language. A fine example to confuse many!
Most people that i know are more than happy to help new English speakers with word usage and phrasing. I work at Walmart, and i love to help explain things out. Also, it really helps if this person shows their willingness to learn as well as practice what they've learned
감사합니다.
Hi Alex my name's Fredy and I'm from Guatemala, a small coutry located in Central America.
I agree with everything you just said and you said something else, the magic word " practice " you know
It was hard for me to learn how to speak English but a long time ago I had the chance to go to the U S A and I lived there for five or six years, I don't exactly remember but I learned how to speak it, even though I studied it in my country then I had to go back to my country and I stopped practicing but I met a guy named Larry, he was a U S citizen and he lived in my country for six years I guess, so I started practicing with him for three years but again he had to go back to his country because he is a veteran of war, since then I haven't practiced it at all because I don't have anybody who to talk to in English but with your video lesson I've had the chance to brush up on my English and better yet I've learned new things about the language and ones again I completly agree with you it's hard at the beginning but I think I speak it better now than before but if you want to surpass all the problems that you just mentioned " you just got to practice the language all the time " that's the solution. well Alex I have told you the history of my life and I'll be waiting for your video lessons in order to learn more, thanks for paying attention to my comments bye.
What a great story! I wish every English student had a Larry. :)
@@engvidAlex Maybe they do but they don't mention it.
If you just have the chance to work with tourists that helps a lot, and you’ll never forget a piece. Keep going pal.
@@ramirotirado3274 Thanks for the advice Alex, I'll try to do my best and thanks for calling pal I consider you a pal too bye.
English is an incredible language, because despite having a fairly simple grammar, in one way or another it becomes quite a difficult language.
Look, I happened to learn two more foreign languages in addition to English, and I tell you - English is really simple to learn and to use. But I still have a big problem: to understand English from (or, by?) listening is really hard. English words are very short - mostly one or two syllables. Often zero sillables (contractions). And yes, phrasal verbs suck.
About "CLEAN UP". I am not a native English speaker, so all what I say here is IMHO.
I read somewhere that the preposition "UP" can impart a shade of completeness to the meaning of the verb. As an example from real life, when I worked in a store, my boss used "SWEEP" and "SWEEP UP" depending on the situation. When he gave me a general assignment to sweep the whole floor in the store, he used to say: "SWEEP THE FLOOR". But in case a minor spill had happened in a particular spot, he would say: "SWEEP UP this spill". I understand that in the case of a minor spill he assumed that I could finish the sweeping in one run bc the spill was minor.
I’m from North Texas and we have a lot of immigrants here from Mexico and Central America. I manage rental properties and I took over a property that was nearly full of monolingual Spanish speakers. I decided it was the perfect opportunity to learn. I even decided to move on-site and now I am in daily communication with my neighbors. If I learn Spanish I also want to encourage them to speak English. If I understand English objectively I can explain to them the difficulties they may face. I have made friends in Spanish now and if they are here I figured it would be kind to encourage them to learn English to increase their opportunities while they are living here in the states. Many of them are sending money home so it will only better their lives. Loved the insight in this video. Thank you sir!
Learn with you is not hard!! Thanks Alex! I'm from Brasil. I love English and love your lessons. ❤
watching this as a native english speaker is so interesting!
I grew up speaking English and I'm always so impressed when a non native English speaking person, well, speaks English to me. I don't care if your accent is good or if I have trouble understanding every word you're trying to say, I still appreciate it and am impressed with your effort and accomplishment. I know some Americans are jerks about it, but I'm impressed as hell.
Same! This should be the default response, but unfortunately, it isn’t for some people.
For me, as a Portuguese speaker, the R sound is the biggest challenge, because the way I pronounce the R sound is pretty different from the pronunciation of the R sound in English words, so I'm still getting used to pronouncing the R sound of yours hahaha. By the way, such a great video.
What makes this even more confusing is that there is high variability in the pronunciation of the R sound among English speakers. If you are from the South East of England or Australia the R sound is very soft (almost silent) whereas most Scottish and American accents have a highly pronounced round R. As a Scot, I found it interesting that Americans have no problem with my accent whereas Australians struggle.
if you use a trilled or taped R then you will still be understood
Valeu!
15:16 Native English speaker here. Not to nitpick, but English doesn't have future tense, but future aspect. English doesn't denote the future with an actual separate tense. Most native English speakers don't know this fact. 😁
Yeah, the English grammar books that I learned with teach “the 12 tenses,” but I’m aware English only has two tenses and then variations of those tenses, as well as phrases and modals to express intent. 👍
In Russian language we don't have articles, we don't have continuous, english people can't understand how we generally understand each other)))
For sure! It's the same in Polish. You have to re-train your brain and create new connections when learning a new language.
How are russians able to write with the English alphabet with your russian keyboard?
@@Mirador1 keyboards distributed in Russia have 2 alphabets ( russian and english). You can switch them
There is also no verb to be 🙂, not only in Russian but in other languages like mandarin and Vietnamese
Russian is very hard and complicated
Once again, you're amazing.
Yes, I think the same, English is difficult too. I've been studying English for over 5 months and these ones have been my nightmares (well, less tenses and articles) When your channel showed up and I started watching, I got obsessed for your videos. I wrote down your channel on my schedule as my course. Thank you so much for your work and support. I've been learning too much. Please, keep making amazing videos.
I'm so glad it's been helpful for you, Alejandra. Thank you for your super kind words, and good luck with your studies!
*so much
Jesus Christ - only 5 months!?? I'm native English and I somewhat find this disheartening because your English here is so good and in the same time I've been learning Spanish and can honestly say I can only string together a few words! wtf! And I'm going hell for leather!
English regional accents can be hard to understand,like Geordie or Scouse.but language is great, that's what makes it so much fun, wherever you hail from and what ever language you speak, language, dialects and cultural differences make language such fun.
I'm from Yorkshire and I lived in Lancashire when I was a kid, some of the pronunciations of words are markedly different, even though it's only a short hop across the Pennines, that's what makes language beautiful, because people have their own idiosyncrasies.long live different languages and different dialects, whatever country you come from 👍
Wars of the Roses?
In the past, the Guinness Book of Records ranked the Greek language as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types! :)
I speak fluently Albanian, Greek, and trying to learn English, and then Italian or spanish in the future :D
Such a great video.
Thanks professor, I'm from Brazil and I Love tour class. I have been watched you 1 week and I'm liking
I have been studying learning English on line for some time now but I STILL FACE some challenges when it comes to English Speaking fluency. I often feel lost when ever I WANT to express myself during very important engagements.Sir, could you kindly help me break this barrier by teaching me the simplest most convenient way to master English and be able to speak fluently and confidently. YOU are ABSOLUTELY GREAT and I enjoy every piece of your presentation.
Thanks teacher!
I love ur lessons and ur cool t-shirt 😎
If you missed my lesson on how English is EASY to learn, catch up here: ruclips.net/video/gh0AxqLMGDk/видео.html
A correction and an apology! In this lesson, I used "the Ukraine" as one of my examples. I should have chosen a different example, as it is simply "Ukraine." "The Ukraine" was used by many English sources prior to the country's independence. I apologize for this error.
Happy teachers day from 🇮🇳 thank you for teaching me better english 🙏🏽
Best teacher in the world, I'm from Argentina but i'm live in Canada... But I speak french here, not english. thanks for your excellent work!
It has been 4 months that I moved to Canada . I thought I was really good at English then the plane is arrived to the Toronto airport and I found out that not even close . I am studying and my classes are online . I live with my sister so don't have a chance to talk English . Could't find a part time job because of the anxiety i am going through . That is tough ,definetely it is .
tell me, have you improved your English skills now that you live in Canada?
@@RR-yg3mr kinda yes I have started working on Jun it has been almost 5 months my english is so much better now still not enough but i am making a progress every single day
What I find difficult about English language is the following:
1. Pronunciation
2. Phrasal verbs
3. Idioms
Anyway, there are way harder languages to learn. Try any Slavic one.
Yep. Like learning anything, it takes times and practice. You can want to learn a language, but if you don't practice it, you can't grow.
what I find hard to teach is some of the words changes and suffix is added. specially the er ist or.
maker, doctor dentist etc.
there is no clear rule when to use the right suffix. its like lottery if they are begginers.
For me prepositions are sometimes tricky and writing the words correctly, I always wonder did I miss the letter or something lol but reading, speaking and generally understanding the language comes easy to me. Btw slavic person here 😅
Your funny. Nothing is hard about learning English. Stop with this nonsense.
@@kaydod3190 It's "You're", not Your".
Think positive and positive things will happen. Greetings from São Paulo Brasil.
Native Texan here.
The spelling is a nightmare. We spent a LOT of time in school on spelling and I can't spell very well decades later. Thank goodness for Google.
I didn't notice the pronunciation being a problem. I think kids pick up their local pronunciation no matter how difficult foreigners consider it to be.
In general, nouns and verbs are a lot easier than in many other languages.
A person can get started in English pretty quickly and then as you progress, you pick up the more difficult features.
Min 8:25 I feel very happy because I can understand all that you are explain...
English verb conjugations are a snap compared to languages like French Spanish or German. Even with an irregular verb like "to swim", Once you know "swim, swam, swum", It's conjugated exactly the same as a regular verb and there's hardly any variation throughout. No constant changing of endings.
Can you remember "will"? Then you already have learned the future tense.
Other aspects of English are indeed quite difficult it would seem to me.
Another major hurdle are the sounds. There are many sounds in English that don't exist in other languages.
Yes? It has 49-52 depending On the version of it. American English is 49 and Australian English is 52.
I'm learning Japanese and it's really hard, so I don't know why I'm watching this. But I think it's so I can feel better that I already know English.
This is the first video which made me watch your videos. You answered what I wondered about.
Welcome to my channel! :) I hope you find a lot of useful content.
nice and very kind teacher tnx for hard working.
Thank You Alex. And here in India, today is Teachers day. So wishes to you, teacher.
Thank you for some great education, but I have this thing which I wish those who teach language would get correct: "Verb Tense" is the conjugation of a verb to describe when in time an action happens i.e. past, present, or future. English has e.g. "I played.", "I play., and "I will play.". Notice how "play" changes only once i.e. in the past whereas it is the same in the present and future; only two distinct grammaticalized verb forms distinguishing time therefore only two tenses: the past and the non-past. This does not mean that English cannot communicate the future, rather it is done by means other than conjugating the verb: with auxiliaries, adverbs etc.
French has "J'ai joué.", "je joue.", and "je jouerai." which are three distinct grammaticalized verb forms distinguishing time therefore three tenses.
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You are a great person! I've learned a lot from you for years.
You’re the best english teacher !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As a native English speaker and it being my first and only language, spell checker is a GOD SEND 🤣 even we need it sometimes
Thank you for explaining this. This video helps me think it’s okay to think English is difficult.
My motivation for practicing English is loosing these days and I feel like I don’t wanna study English anymore…. Because In my country, having a skill of English is related to social status, which give me too much pressure to study.
Another issue that makes it difficult is word pronunciation variations, for example, those words that have weak forms, or changes that happen when linking words in normal speech (some sounds are dropped). Because we usually learn words in isolation and in their strong forms, not in the ways they sound in different contexts.
You inspire me a lot to learn english. My friend brought you up and since that day I cant stop watching your videos. I send my regards from Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
Teacher you are the best, I learn everyday more and more. thanks 👍
Could you do another video where you explain specific phrasal verbs? ... I like the way how you explain them.
Hi teacher Alex, I really love your lessons and they help me a lot! You make everything clear and enjoyable. I wish had every English native speaker talks like you. I struggle with "Th" and for sure some phrases verbs (sometimes they don't make sense... but I know it's because I'm still thinking in Portuguese). For me as a Brazilian, it's a challenge. I have been practice a lot and as you said I try do not to be so hard with me because of my pronounce, in the past, it made me sad about learning and improve it.
Some English speaker have trouble with th. Personally, I don't. But I know a lot of natives that pronounce it like the letter f. It can more of slang thing , though. If you pronounce th as f people will still understand you. I think some people pronounce it also as v in slang but I'm not too sure about that one.
Excelent explication Alex, congratulations.
Thank you Alex for all 👍👍👍
Excellent teacher! 👏👏👏
The amount of english vocabulary is really challenging.
Hi, teacher. Nice to see you again.
Good idea to explain the facts that make English difficult.
Whether English is difficult or not, it's a wonderful language, which is pretty necessary throughout the world.
Thank you so much for teaching us so important language.
I wish you the best of luck.
thanks so much Alex, I really like the way you speak.
Thank you for the warning in this lesson
The phrasal verbs, idioms and spelling rules (linking etc) which making listening so difficult are most challenges to learn English.
As a native English speaker, the sheer difficulty of the language became apparent when I considered the following: comb, tomb, and bomb; to, too, and two; there, their, and they’re.
Thanks teacher!
Thank you so much for having this matter observed and discussed
You are the cutest teacher I ever had class, thanks for the video. 💕
You're an excellent teacher! I'm learning so much with You. Thanks a million. Greetings from Costa Rica!
At least with the articles, incorrect articles will not usually stop a native speaker from understanding you. They come in handy in some situations for creating certain implications, but in most situations one could guess the intended meaning from context. There's a reason plenty of languages get along just fine without them.
Mr. Alex. You are an amazing and really great teacher. I love your insightful perspective and i love your simple, yet deep approach to explaining liguistic aspects of English. Thank you for your good work.
Highly appreciate your content ❤
Everything in life that's hard is just a series of things that are easy. you just have to take that first step!
Thanks from Egypt 🇪🇬 I love ❤️🌹 you so much Teacher
GOOD LESSON, GOOD TEACHER! I have beening learning English for many years, I am here to learn more, but the for the beginers, how can they understand an English teacher teaching English in English.
Thanks again, Alex!
Thanks a lot for your valuable lesson taught us. Alex Sir, please explain about sounds of these two letters i.e. "w" and "y".
I grew up speaking English and never knew how hard it was to speak it, its always seemed easy except for a few words.
Hi, Alex... you know, for me English, though, it is my passion is.., you can say : crazy, and sometimes irrational, for example: if the past of the verb " lead" is "led" ,why the verb "read" is not " red ...red red", we have almost identical twin verbs -so to speak - except the consonants "L & R" . Eventually, as my teacher said to me :English is consistently inconsistent.!!!!!!
*But really what is difficult, and I always find it challenging is the "Media Language" used in the press of today and Satellite TV News Channels. I hope and I would love very much you could give a lesson on this matter soon.
Thanks with appreciation.,,,
Well, although the past tense of read is read, it is _pronounced_ as “red”. So the way it _sounds_ (in past tense) is: I’ve “red” that book, but you have to write: I’ve read that book.
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Thanks so much .. yes I know very much it 's "read", and pronounced as "red" ..I 'm an English teacher .. but my wonder is why not the pronunciation meets the writing as in led pp. of lead .. some troublesome students, so to speak, put one in a tight corner by asking in matters of such similarities and peculiar differences on words that share common features of phonic transcriptions ,syllables, consonants, and vowels.
I think English is a good lingua franca, because it is relatively easy up to "the reward period", when you can start watching films and listening to audiobooks and all the stuff.
Your class is simply amazing i can follow you easily...
It’s help ful & easy to understand 👍🏼
The short answer is that English has changed, since the rules were set up and words were dictionarified.
Basically, the words have changed, the usage has changed and the rules have changed.
Base on my experience learning English is really effective specially if you're a student, because you don't have to force yourself to learn english at once. Sometimes, i was wondering because i learnt to speak English first before i study grammar which is really tough. One thing I've learned is people can learn English without studying grammar specially if you're surrounded by an english native speaker.
Thank you, teacher
Great sir u r
Wow Alex, thanks for share this with us. "Focus on be understandable no perfect" in fact I I understand almost all, but when I try to Express I made many mistakes
I always can understand what u say better than other teachers.
but unfortunately most native speaker don't speak like that.
Thank you very much
It depends on the person learning it, either your cognitive abilities allow you to learn it fast or if not you will have a difficult time.
I did enjoy. You speak claro as if I Washington listening my own linguagem. João from Brazil
This class was amazing!!!
Thank you!
compaired to other languges its pretty easy to read and write and pronounce stuff
Best wishes for you ,mr Alex , you are an awesome teacher and I appreciate your efforts 😌🌸
Thank's a lot for sharing this content.
12=4x3 blooming my mind. Great tips, Alex!
"blowing my mind" or did you mean blooming? :) Thanks! I hope this makes it feel more manageable!
English is not difficult, it is possibly the simplest language to learn
Well there are many people who struggle and 75% of the word population can’t speak it
You should study more languages then
Thank you
Subscriber from Philippines, anyway I love your voice Alex and you explain so clearly. Hi!