July 2003 Archives

There is no language that is really easy or difficult to learn in a certain manner of speaking.

I have to say it mostly depends on how far one wants to take it. How much fluency does one want to achieve? Is achieving native speaker type fluency one's desire? Is accuracy unimportant as long as one is understood and can understand? I believe accuracy is important, but just how important it could be to each English language learner would vary. Most people do want to speak correctly. How much accuracy each person achieves will vary. Everyone is, of course, different and has different needs, desires and expectations for different reasons.

English has a few adjectives whose comparative and superlative forms are irregular. That is, they don't form the usual patterns for forming comparatives and superlatives (-er, -est; or -ier, iest; or more-, most-).

The rules for comparisons are quite simple but even native speakers seem to make mistakes.