Saw this poem on Pinterest and just had to share it with you. Once again, it has made me fully appreciate how very difficult it must be to learn English as a second language.
My love of my native language knows no bounds.
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Glorious, complicated, perverse English language
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The poem is very interesting to read as it shows how you think about pronunciation until you read through something like this which clarifies all your doubts about pronunciation. Great post!!
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So glad you enjoyed this post. 😁
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oh!!!!! its was fun to read it…Just loved it Fictionophile:)
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I’m so pleased. Thank-you very much for letting me know. 😍
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Bahahahahaha these are fantastic!
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So glad that you enjoyed them Sheree ♥
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I had lots of those to train with when I was studying for my pronunciation class!
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Brought back memories I guess 😍
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Yep! Happy ones 🙂 It’s a lot of fun to play with them
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Absolutely true
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I’m speechless! 😀
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😍😅😉
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Brilliant! Just shows how you never think about pronunciation until you read through something like this. We must be quite clever really to cope with all these complications of our language. 😊
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Yes Joanne. I felt quite clever getting my tongue around some of the words in the poem. It really is a complicated language.
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Brilliant! I’ve never really had a problem learning English because we have lots of English TV-shows and movies and they’re subtitled so we always hear how the words are pronounced, that helps. And I’ve always had a knack for English 😊
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I am in awe. ♥️
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Aww thank you 😘 You make me feel really smart 😂
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Great fun!
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Glad you enjoyed it Nicki.
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Very clever! My daughter spent 12 years teaching English as a foreign language (in Japan) and it always amazing me that the government doesn’t recruit those returning here to teach English to immigrants.
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