“Polish grammar is crazy, man. It’s got, like, seventeen cases.”
“I just don’t get how you can create these monster words in German that go on forever.”
“Why do I have to speak different Japanese to my boss, and to my colleagues???”
“Holy Alphabet, what are these squiggles?”
Ask any learner what they think is difficult about learning their language, and they will come up with a long list of things they dislike, struggle with or simply hate. But ask a little harder – for the absolutely hardest part – and the answer is likely to be the same, no matter what language they’re learning.
Wiktor (Vic) Kostrzewski (MA, DELTA) is an author, translator, editor and project manage based in London. When he works, he thinks about languages, education, books, EdTech and teachers. When he doesn’t work, he probably trains for his next triathlon or drinks his next coffee.
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