In your opinion, what is the biggest barrier to learning English? |
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Added: October 2003 |
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| italianbro - 4th November 2003 15:14
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| For a foreign student the worst thing to do is to hang around with people of its same country, the learning of a new language implies being with mother tongue speakers and a daily practice, which very few do.
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| Willbut - 4th November 2003 23:24
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| That's fine if you have access to native speakers, but not so easy if you're in a non-English speaking country. You can always visit sites on the internet, though.
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| kluxx - 10th November 2003 19:34
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| It has more to do with mastering verbal comminication, than with English itself - but here's my observation on myself & other newcomers: people who used to speak in rich, literary language at home, have more difficulties at first with verbal exchanges than those whose native language was poor and simple :).
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| tdol - 10th November 2003 20:49
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| Kluxx, what's your native language? Which native languages would you say were poor and simple? I'd imagine all languages are complex.
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| Rejane - 21st November 2003 20:58
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I think the biggest problem is that i expect to much about myself. I would like to be fluent as I am in my first language.
Also, a little mistakes and fiascos here and there have a negative impact in our learning process.
To understand english is a very smooth process. The difficult part is to be in control of all the data we have .
I don't mind to speak with accent. what bothers me is that i am not in control of my own communication.
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| Joan - 24th November 2003 23:35
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| You seem in full control to me. there are a couple of mistakes, but I wish I could do that in a foreign language.
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| HOANG Y NHI - 24th December 2003 07:06
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| my biggest barrier of learning English is writting
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| willbut - 28th December 2003 00:43
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| Barriers are psychological.
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| RR - 5th February 2006 23:11
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| Lack in practice of loud reading.
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| deniseloveshermother - 17th June 2006 07:30
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| The biggest barrier to learning English for me is writting. I am afraid of getting marks on my paper and I am afraid that the words I want to write will not be written correctly.
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| ljacob - 14th August 2006 20:26
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| In my opinion, the hardest obstacle in becoming fluent in English is the ambiguous pronunciation.
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| Ada - 22nd November 2006 09:40
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| People don't have patience to listen your beginner English. Most of time they don't want to speak with you.
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| Trish - 19th December 2006 08:58
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| There are some countries that they don't want the local peeps to learn English like Japan. I think that is one of the biggest barrier.
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| Jotter Scalems - 19th January 2008 23:22
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| I think the trouble is that few people really master the language. Everyone thinks they can speak English fluently once they are understood. My written English is good enough to give the impression that I'm a native speaker, but my accent still gives me away.
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| cristina - 12th March 2008 08:21
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| i think the biggest barriers in learning and speaking the english language is our native language it self or the what we called our mother tongue...because if were not really a native english speakers we cannot express our selves through the use of english language exactly and automatically!
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| Vidableek - 26th September 2008 18:29
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| I think that the hardest thing about learning english is all the inconsistencies it has. With words like "thought" and "laugh", it doesn't really make sense. Or like how comb is pronounced coe-mb, but bomb is pronounced bah-mb.
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