Show Weir Human Have you ever felt that you are attending the University of Bangkok For a new student student- could appear as a foreign university There are many foreign languages spoken in our halls The American point of view is if you want to talk to me learn English Many people just cant can't understand why foreigners dont don't learn to speak English and speak it all the time Some p people ople are even offended when they hear someone speaking a foreign language I remember the time when I was newly arrived in South America and just barely learning how to speak Spanish I had nobody to talk English with I felt like a year two-year-old child who could barly communicate his most basic desir desires s. s I wanted so very much to speak on on on- ona a post high school level leveland and get my feelings out Even 22 months la later r when I was very comfortable comfortable comfortable com com- with Spanish I still preferred to speak English It is human nature to do what is easiest for us Foreign students speak their native tongue among themselves because they can more fully express themselves that way E English glish is no easy language to learn either English has more words word than any other language in the world There are common words The average student at probably probably probably pro pro- bably knows about 2500 words or less Besides the fact that hat our gra grammatical grammatical gram gram- 1 rules have no rhyme or reason reason reason rea rea- son there are sev several ral exceptions to every rule that must be memorized The following poem illustrates what I mean We Well We'll II begin with a box and the plural is boxes But the plural of ox is oxen not Then one fowl is a goose but two are called geese Yet the plural of moose sho should ld ne never ver be meese Yo You f find ind a lone mo mouse use or a whole set of ofIn In mice mice ice Y Yet t the plural of house is houses not t hice If the plural of man is always called men nen Why shouldn't the pl plural ral of pan pan be e called pen If I speak of a afoot foot and you show me your feet And I give you a boot would a pair be called beet If one is a tooth and a whole set are re teeth Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth Then one one may maybe be that and three would be those Yet hat in the plural wouldn't be hose We speak of a brother and also say ay brethren But though we say Mother we never say Then the masculine pronouns are he his and him But imagine the feminine she and shim n. n So English I fancy you all will agree Is the funniest language you ever did see Anonymous If I haven't convinced you yet of the strangeness and difficulty of English English English Eng Eng- lish just enroll in Business English and you will soon see just how unfamiliar you are with your native tongue |