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 Tue Jan 15, 2008 18:24 pm Articles - do you find them the hardest part of English |
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Hi Alex,
I think using the articles in English is difficult for people whose mother tongue doesn't have any articles. The best way to learn how to use the articles correctly is to listen to English until you know what sounds correct and what doesn't.
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| Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:18 am Articles - do you find them the hardest part of English |
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| English articles are also difficult for people who speak languages that use their articles differently from the way they're used in English. Germans can have quite a bit of trouble using "the" correctly, as do French and Spanish speakers. Some interesting problems come when the person's native language has "the" but no "a", as in Arabic, and I think also Yoruba. |
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| Thu Jan 17, 2008 16:44 pm Articles - do you find them the hardest part of English |
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The most difficult for me is determining anything with past tenses. We don't have it in our mother tongue. I learn English with a lot of listening/experience rather than reading. And I depend a lot on my sixth sense (whatever it is) so I don't think I have or had any problems with articles, even then, when I was first introduced to them. But for some reason the same system does not work with me and my tenses.
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| Thu Jan 17, 2008 18:51 pm Articles - do you find them the hardest part of English |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: | | English articles are also difficult for people who speak languages that use their articles differently from the way they're used in English. Germans can have quite a bit of trouble using "the" correctly, as do French and Spanish speakers. Some interesting problems come when the person's native language has "the" but no "a", as in Arabic, and I think also Yoruba. |
Hi Jamie,
Please give me some examples that show where the Germans have a hard time using "the" properly? Do you mean expressions like "play the guitar" or "on the weekend"?
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