The English is
considered the international language par excellence, the first option to
communicate when one travels to a remote country where the local language is
not spoken. We hear it on television and in movies, in music, in every
international event.It is practically the wildcard to be understood all over
the world.But this does not mean that learning it is an easy task.
The first impression
that the English is positive, it is grammatically very simple and Basic. Tenses
and conjugations and structures are really piece of cake compared with other
languages. But immediately one discovers the "dark side" of the
language, and the chaos of the pronunciation, where it seems that the
exceptions are the rule. In most of the languages you learn quickly that
certain combinations of letters are always pronounced the same way, and so one
can read a word I did not know before and anticipate how to pronounce. But
the English tend to confuse students. For example, the words
"cough", "although" and "through" end exactly
with the same four letters, but each pronounce different. "Food"
and "flood" sounds very different too, as well as "weak"
and "steak". Why so similar words are pronounced so different? It
gives the impression that there is to learn all the words of memory, instead of
learning the rules of pronunciation. At the same time, there are
words that are written in different, but are pronounced as. I'll never
forget the story short I learned in one of my English classes:
"There was a man
named Wright who wanted his are Wright to write"Wright"right." So
Wright Wright taught to write "Wright" right. "Now Wright
writes"Wright"right, right?"
The reason why English
has this kind of irregularities is that this language had a difficult
childhood. It is not a language that had a source defined by a single
root, but it is a confluence between the old Anglo-Saxon languages and Celtic,
and even a bit of latin.The island of Great Britain was invaded and inhabited
by different currents through the years, and this gave as result an equally
multifaceted and original language as we know it today.
It is easy to
underestimate the English at first, but really requires the same dedication and
effort than the other languages to master it, is why that Trusted Translations
we ensure that our resources have the knowledge and experience required to maximum
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