easy for me vs easy to me.

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Nathan Mckane

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What is the difference between these two?

This lesson is easy for me.
This lesson is easy to me.

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Nathan Mckane

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Is there any difference in terms of meaning?
 

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Is there any difference in terms of meaning?

Yes.

This lesson is easy for me [to understand (for example)]. It is for your life, for what you are going to in the future, etc.
This lesson is easy to me. I consider this lesson easy in my opinion
 

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What is the difference between these two?

This lesson is easy for me.
This lesson is easy to me.

tnx

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Hello, Mr. McKane.

(1) These two prepositions also confuse native speakers.

(2) I often am not sure which one to use in a sentence.

(3) I want to share something I read on the Web:

To me, golf is a pointless game (= something like a game that is a waste

of time). (If you like golf, do not be angry with me. This is only an

example!!!)

For me, golf is a pointless game.

The poster said that those two sentences mean the same.





The important thing that I learned is that maybe:

To me is an ellipsis (deleting some words) of It seems to me.

For me is an ellipsis of As for me.

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Is there a difference between your two sentences? I do not know.

Like you, I want to know what others say.

Thank you for posting this interesting question.

P. S. That poster gave an example of when there is a difference. I have

changed his examples a little bit:

* It is pointless (a waste of time) for me to study X. I have no good

reason to know anything about X. I will never have a need to know X.

Maybe other people need to study X, but I do not.

*It is pointless to me to study X. It seems to me that there is no good

reason for anyone to know X. No one will ever have a need to know X.
 
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