I’ve tried many times to convince non-native English speakers that English isn’t that hard a language to learn. Grammatically it’s far simpler than most other European languages including Spanish. The problem is the spelling and pronunciation. Why is “cough” pronounced “kof”? If we say “Wensday” why is it spelt “Wednesday”?

Recently I was pleased to see that the writers of no less than The Economist seem to agree with my opinion on the relative difficulty of English. Their verdict:

“English is a relatively simple language, absurdly spelled.”

The rest of the article is very interesting and worth reading if for nothing else than to discover that there really is a language called !

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