Kimberly Said:

How I can Learn English Language, To be like A mother language?

We Answered:

THe more you read and try to speak. The more you'll learn. It takes time. Good luck and maybe try taking some night school ESL classes at the local high school. I bet that would help. Watching TV will also help you. I praise your efforts!!!!!

Clinton Said:

How quickly can I learn the English language?

We Answered:

Technically, to be able to read, write, speak, and listen fluently in English it usually takes 5-7 years. It should take you about 2 yrs. to be able to speak and listen well. The reading and writing are harder. If you're learning English as a second language (meaning also that you're surrounded with native speakers and not just learning out of a text book) it shouldn't be a tad easier.

Your writing sounds better than that of your second responder who made little sense to me.

Keep practicing. Listen to as many native speakers as you can by watching TV new programs, comedies, movies and the like. American English may not be the king's English, but it is English and just as OK. Remember, we got rid of the monarchy over here...

Good luck.

Edwin Said:

How to i learn language the easier way .ex :-?

We Answered:

I'd say hang around people at school who speak that language. You can also take classes. Like Irish said, the older you are, the harder it is to learn.

Judy Said:

Is English a difficult language to learn?

We Answered:

Well, its difficulty depends on what your native language is. If you speak a Germanic language, it's relatively similar, if you speak Japanese, it's very different. However, there are several aspects of English which are easy, and others which are hard.

Easy aspects include verb forms: most verbs only have 4 forms, the infinitive (e.g. watch), the present simple 3rd person form (watches), the present participle (watching) and the preterit/past participle (watched), although many irregular verbs distinguish between the preterit and past participle. However, the number of irregular verbs is a lot less than other languages, but more than languages such as Turkish.

Difficult aspects of English include pronunciation. English has quite a large number of phonemes, some with only slight differences ("beard, bared, bird, bored"), and is quite flexible in its syllable structures, so speakers of languages which can only have consonant-vowel syllables might find words such as "strength" or "asks" difficult. Specific difficulties in pronunciation depend on the native language of the speaker. There is also the large difficulty that the written form of the word rarely corresponds phonetically with the spoken form, meaning that English learners need to learn the spoken and written form separately, whilst in languages such as Spanish, once you've learnt one form you've learnt the other 99% of the time.

Grammatical difficulties include the infamous phrasal verbs (look up, look after, look forward to, look into) where a preposition or adverb significantly changes the meaning of the verb. The position of the preposition (separable v. non-separable) also makes a difference as highlighted by the two sentences "she turned on me" and "she turned me on". Again, speakers of Germanic languages will find this aspect easier because they too have similar constructs. Another grammatical difficulty is the relatively complex construction of negative and interrogative forms, often involving the dummy auxiliary "do", and for the case of interrogative forms, subject-verb inversion. On the other hand, English nouns lack gender, do not decline for case, and the verb conjugations, as already mentioned, are mainly simple and regular. Adjectives do not agree in number with the nouns they modify, and sentence structure is often more flexible than other languages.

So all in all, English, like all languages, has its quirks which are difficult to learn, but in other terms its simpler than other languages.