Why the English language is so hard to learn

[JB White]

Cockney. Years ago I went see Rex Harrison in the lead role in My Fair Lady. Elisa Doolittle’s accent had to be cleaned up just so the American audience could follow the story. Even then I could hear people whispering “What? What did she say?”
And when a Yorkie tells a joke, just laugh when he laughs.

[Phloating Phlasher]

I get a good laugh when there's some news item from the U.K. & they get the "person on the street" interview.
WITH SUBTITLES!

[Johnny P]

The hardest part to learning the English language today is the environment that it is taught in.

[Phloating Phlasher]

please explain.

[JB White]

Aside from regional dialects, variable accents, and common slang differences in different regions of the US.
You can easily get into trouble and not know why.
Then you have differences in how people outside the US pronounce the language. Folks with, let’s just say, a Spanish speaking background roll their R’s. While people from the Subcontinent roll their L’s. All the while you’re making mental translations just trying to carry on a casual conversation.

“I met a fellow totally pissed and needed to help him off the pavement”
Did you meet an angry man and escort him off the street? Or….
Did you come across a drunk man and help him off the sidewalk?
All depends upon if you’re in the USA or the UK.

That’s just the very tip that of that iceberg!

[Johnny P]

please explain.

Glad to. Nearby town built a multi-million dollar high school to consolidate all the smaller schools and hardly a week goes by that it doesn't make the news for a disruption of classes in one form or another. Recently one student pulling a gun on another.

Sound normal school environment to you?