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1.The slang often creates a barrier. And here I’m talking about two different kinds: the first, I guess, would be just the idomatic expressions that are used, and of which new ones are made all the time (esp by young people). Those kinds of expressions are hard for even older native English speaking to keep up with!!

2.Then there are things like phrasal verbs (which, I’ll call a kind of slang for argument’s sake). Phrasal verbs are those verb phrases that we know so well and use so often that most often consist of some basic verb plus a preposition or adverb that then changes the meaning of the verb. Take for example, the verb to MAKE. Then add some prepositions/adverbs to it:

to make OUT (= to kiss and smoosh faces with someone passionately) to make UP (=to do at a later time, as with a test; to get back on good terms with someone you might have been fighting with) to make OVER (=to complete redo, as with getting a whole new wardrobe, look, etc.)

See what I mean? 😛 These phrasal verbs are some of the hardest things for non-native English speaking to learn, and to be able to use correctly.

3.Spellings in english is hard…because so many words have extra letters that you don’t need…like through…psycology.The fact that the spelling is far from phonetic – the same combinations of letters can stand for totally different words, like the “ough” in “tough”, “though”, “drought”, etc.

One might also say it’s the complex verb system, though – it seems obvious to native speakers, of course, but for non-native speakers it takes a long time to figure out which tense to use when, and many never quite master it.

Its pronunciation, and all the words that sound the same but arent, like see and sea, wander and wonder. it makes it hard to follow ppl sometimes, especially when accents are involved.

In most words that end in “e”, the vowel is

long (says it’s name) bake, take, fate, smite, home, phone.

The idioms are insanely difficult for others to understand. (“Rains cats and dogs,” “see the light,” etc.)