Why is it hard to ask questions in English?

Answer 1

Umm, well for starters, you just asked a question in English then, lol...

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Because you don't know the language well enough. If you are a fluent English speaker, it isn't hard.

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Yes, that is true. You'll improve with practice. For me, it is hard to form questions in French. It makes little to no sense to me.

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I think french is easy peasy lemon squeezy, watch...

Tu es en quelle class? That means, 'What grade are you in?'.

It can be hard to pronounce french words and there are lots of different ways to say them. But just like English you'll eventually get it!

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I think the hardest bit to asking a question in English is the question mark.

I can't seem to get that loop at the top perfect.. IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY!!

Btw guys, have you noticed the answer area has turned into a sort of comment forum? HAHA! It's funny as! 8D

Answer 2

There are lots of answers to this question. Here are a few.

* English has several origins. The language of Britain until the 6th century was Briton, a dialect of Celtish. This was then mostly replaced by a Germanic dialect with a massive influx of people from coastal Holland and Friesland (the Angles and Saxons). Then an overlay of French was added, especially after the Norman conquest. This complicated mix makes pronunciation and spelling follow many different sets of rules.

* English was not very standardized until the 17th century, roughly following Shakespeare, the King James Bible, and the Johnson dictionary of the English Language. (Compare this to Chinese, which had basically one written form of the language over 1,900 years ago.)

* English spelling was not standardized until the middle of the 19th century, and then separate rules emerged in various regions.

* Separate grammatical forms and regional dialects emerged as English was used around the world. "Getting up a good head of steam" is meaningful in England and America, as trains were developed in both places. "Three strikes and you're out" has meaning only in America, because of American baseball. Vegamite and Marmite are peculiar to Australia.

* And lastly, who says English is difficult? Four hundred million people have it down already!