- Hello and welcome!
Since English has around 508 million speakers and has a lot of countries to make it it's official language, you might be interested in learning English. This thread is for both native English speakers and non-native English speakers.
We hope we'll make your experience with English easier!
- The basics of English
A lot of people struggle with some things in English, no matter if you're a native or not. Just know, we all experience these things.
Spelling: English is a little stupid when it comes to spelling. Not every word is spelled like it's written (I mean, every language has this). Like 'through' and 'thought', 'dessert' and 'desert', or 'cough' and 'rough' have almost identical spelling, but are pronounced totally different.
Grammar: English doesn't use endings on words like other languages do, like Latin for an example that clearly tells you which word is feminine and or the subject of the sentence. English solely is based on word order (subject-verb-object). English lacks grammatical gender and adjectival agreement. To addition to that all, English also lacks cases, but are mostly used in pronouns still: 'me', 'mine', 'my'.
Rules: They're are a ton of rules in English that native English speakers don't even notice. An example would be 'i' after 'e' except after 'c'. Many of these rules have ton of exceptions for them.
Origins: Most of English comes from Germanic, Latin, and French roots. So if you're familiar with any of those languages, it helps.
- Table of contents
- Post one: Introduction
- Post two: Levels/program information
- Post three: Members
- Post four: Links to help you learn
- Post five: Applications to join
- Rules
- ❀ Do not give false advice about the language, do your research.
- ❀ Do not try to make other languages seem harder or anything. This is focusing on helping people learn.
- ❀ Please be honest when filling out applications for teaching English since you have to be 13+.
- ❀ Do not make fun of other people's levels. This includes bragging about your English.
- ❀ Of course no spamming or anything.
- ❀ Finally, have fun learning! :)