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As with all languages, english has straightforward and complex aspects. The language has a systematic frame, but proves difficult to learn because of the large quantity of irregularities and exceptions to the general rules. The grammar is essentially simple—there is no gender alignment for nouns and pronouns; adjectives do not have to be conjugated for gender or plurality; there are only three articles, which are also genderless, and do not have a complicated conjugation system; english is a language of equality, as there are no hierarchical structures of politeness, although there are certain titles and more formal word choices; grammatical construction of tenses and modality are straightforward. Different tenses and modality are often constructed simply by adding an auxiliary verb or negative marker. The vocabulary is large and proves to be harder for english learners. This is both because english is a fusion language with Germanic, Romance, and Anglo-Saxon sources and because spellings and pronunciations are very irregular. english is also constantly evolving, with new colloquial vocabulary introduced into the daily lexicon very regularly. Words are spelled with single letters and letter combinations, prefixes and suffixes, can be composited, and some are even pronounced differently in different usage situations. In many cases, pronunciation and spelling need to be separated and isolated into a case-by-case basis for english learners. They may look at the vowel pairing “ea” and think [i] as in “reach” or “leaf.” But there are other possibilities, as in [?] in the past tense of “read” or [yu] when it is combined into a diphthong with the “u” in “beautiful”. When students hear the word “Wednesday” pronounced colloquially, they would never be able to match the spelling to the pronunciation. Different words are also just pronounced differently by different people—both [ði] and [ð?] are correct for “the” and people use them interchangeably and unsystematically in different situations and phonetic contexts. Some pronunciation differences are more conscious, such as [v?z] and [ve?s] for “vase”—generally the first is used to discuss a work of art when the speaker wants to sound sophisticated and the second holds flowers. english also has many loan words, most of them from french, which has its own very different pronunciation system and can be confusing. Everyday words such as “ballet” or “blasé” do not follow english pronunciations, which would seem to be more along the lines of [bæl?t] and [bl??s]. Different words from different languages are used in different areas. If an english learner visited New York she would hear many Yiddish words in use, whereas in New Orleans she would hear more french words. A quality that english shares with many languages is the existence of dialects. Dialects can range from different spellings (British english vs. American english) to different pronunciations (New Jersey accent vs. Deep South accent) to dramatically different grammatical structures and pronunciations (African American Vernacular english). The fact that english is essentially an eclectic hodgepodge of languages from around the word—Roman alphabet, Arabic numerals, Norse days of the week (Thursday), Germanic roots, french loan words—is one of its most beautiful characteristics. It can almost seem ostensibly unsystematic, but underlying the chaos there is a grand plan, just with many, many exceptions. Bibliography Gogate, Madhukar N. “Peculiarities of english Language. Published: 22/12/2004. http://www.mngogate.com/e01.htm. Dictionary.com for IPA spellings. 22/8/12. ITTT Course Unit 13 for Pronunciation information.


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