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Default Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary

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Originally Posted by Harry Smith View Post
I always tell my students if you want to make friends with English you shouldn't pay attention to all these difficulties because some time later they don't seem difficult at all. Learning English and learning to drive are alike. They both seem difficult at the beginning and are very easy two or three years later.
Having taken Spanish, Latin, German, and driving, I found driving to be the easiest by far.
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