An increasing number of people decide to learn a
foreign language. What is the most difficult part when learning a foreign
language? How can the learner overcome these difficulties?
It is often considered beneficial(advantages, behooveful , useful)to
be bilingual and multilingual in this era of globalization, that is the reason
many individuals want to be at home in the language of other nations. Honing the
skills of a foreign tongue is a child’s play for someone, on the other hand, many find it an uphill task. This essay will outline the hardest part of
learning a foreign language and also suggest some solutions to surmount these
difficulties.
Discussing the challenges that one can find in
learning a tongue of other nations, the foremost one the phonological
differences. In other words, human speech organs can produce many sounds, and
these sounds are not used in a language. Also, no two languages use the same
phonological setup. There are some sounds that do exist in one language but not in another language. Hindi has about half as many vowels and twice as many consonants as
English, for instance. So, this leads to several problems of pronunciation. Moreover, the vocabulary, grammatical, and syntax structure of a new language can be a daunting task for
many. To be precise, many learners find the problem in memorizing a vast range of
synonyms and antonyms, and in understanding the complex sentence structure such as
parts of speech in a particular tongue, and to how to organize nouns and
pronouns at the proper place in a sentence. To exemplify, the standard word order in
Hindi is Subject-Object-Verb as against Subject-Verb –Object in English.
However, all the above-mentioned obstacles can be
combated if a person is fully determined to learn a new language. Firstly, one
ought to join a language course whether
offline or online. This will help a person to ask anything where the complexity
arises in understanding anything as language experts are always there to answer any question. Apart from that
learning, a new language is an ongoing process, everybody should devote some time
from their hectic schedule to understand it between the lines because practice
is the key to success. For example, reading newspapers in a targetted language, having conversations with the native speaker of that language, and learning new
words would definitely help. Last but not least, if a person can afford he must
live for some time in a country where that language is spoken.
To recapitulate, albeit learning a foreign language
can be an insurmountable task as keeping in view a few hurdles: sound variations
and problems in learning words and rules of grammar, yet by joining language
classes and with firm determination and
practice these difficulties can be
overcame.