What have non- English speakers found most difficult about learning the English language?
Accents, pronunciation, reading. Accents – with so many English speakers spread out in the world, sometimes new English learners cannot even tell two accents are the same language. Pronunciation – The “th” sound is not a very common sound in many languages around the world, and takes many people years to perfect (and some never can). “R”s are also hard as English is (maybe? to the best of my knowledge?) the only language to pronounce “R”s with changing the shape of their lips instead of a flick of their tongue. Reading – English (and French sometimes too) are incredibly hard to read, as you must memorize the spelling of pretty much every word as there are multiple ways you could (technically) write them and they would still have the same pronunciation.
