English - The reason why it is so hard to learn

0 I don't know if it has more words, but it has so many examples like wind (wrap around) and wind (what blows outside) and so many strange spellings that I wonder how anyone can master it! 0-

0 English does have a lot of words compared to many other languages, but speakers of English use about the same number of words in everyday conversations as the speakers of any other language. So English really isn't that hard to learn after all!02br
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00 If you can handle 10,000 words well, you doing fine. You should be able to communcate fairly well. For really g

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01cite10CalifJim12cite10If you can handle 10,000 words well, you doing fine. You should be able to communcate fairly well. For really good understanding and fluency, a mastery of 20,000 would be wonderful. Most native speakers know 150,000 words at least passively.CJ12blockquote

10Just out of curiosity, how did edu

0 English has the highest voabulary of about 500.000 but most of them are scientific, archaic and literary words. So, to say that English is a difficult language to learn because it has the most words is right down wrong. In fact English is by far the easiest language that I know of. 0-

0 Dude, only a small number of native speakers know 150.000 words even passively. The average person's vocabulary doesn't even remotely approach that figure. Those who know that many words must be writers and linguists, most people don't even bother to look up unknown words.0-

0You might find these articles interesting: 01a05000 02a00 and 01a05100/ 02a02br
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00One of the good points they both make is that it's hard to define a "word." Is a 01i00can 02i00the same word as the verb

0Yes, it is true: about 500,000 and it develops really fast, faster than the others. But this takes into account only the words in the dictionary, so it could be questionable. German is for example one of the languages, in where one word could be created by every individuals complettly new and the dictonary contains only 300,000, otherwise it is imposible to print every combination, they are too

0French is not easy, neither is German for that matter. How can a language be easy if every noun is either masculine, feminine or androgenous without any systematic pattern. How can a language be easy if you can't construct a sentence if you don't know the gender of a given word? Does your language have 100.000 nouns? Multiply it by 3 because you never use them alone. I used to study Russian, Ge

0 Hey thanks for the interesting pages, grammar geek.0-

0OK, for thr record: I have been learning 01b00Russian02b00, 01b00German02b00, 01b00Polish02b00 (some months), 01b00English02b00, 01b00Chinese02b00 (some months), 01b00Japanese02b00, 01b00Czech02b00 (some weeks), 01b00Italian