Why English is one of the most difficult languages to learn…

[salma]

Give him this to play with - it is a useful little resource.

There is also this one. I've found it helpful for french but it does english too.

Text To Speech, TTS: English, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, German, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Chinese

[starfish]

German is spoken in diverse countries (please include different German dialects):

This reminded me of something that makes me smile ... I work for a German company, I was with a German colleague from Hamburg, visiting our Swiss-German colleague in Zurich. We were in a restaurant one evening, our Swiss-German colleague went outside for a cigarette leaving me and my German colleague at the table. My German colleague asked the waitress a simple question in German, the waitress responded in Swiss-German ... the transformation on my colleague's face was absolutely priceless as the realisation slowly dawned that although she recognised the sounds and expected to understand completely, she actually had no idea what the waitress had said ... it was the funniest thing I have seen in a very, very long time.

Maybe the waitress used very colloquialized Swiss-German, I don't know, I don't speak very much German .... but my colleague didn't know either

[mourad120]

And chinese is the most spoken language worldwide, with regards to the huge amount of inhabitants mostly based in china...

You would consider learning it, if you plan to deal with them in case your english failed to help you much.

[Jazaireya4ever]

Starfish

Swiss-German is irritating to the ear lol, ihr instead of ich and all that is really annoying, kills my ear, but wait till you hear Alsatian, that's just a khalata of German (kind of Swiss style) and broken kind of French, can't understand jack really...
To me, German from Germany is a lot nicer, a lot more understandable and... nicer

mourad120

yeah, Chinese, hope it doesn't take over Algeria eh, that would be toooo badddd... I think English with them should be fine, in China they tend to have little kids speaking English at a very very young age and let's tell the truth, who in Asia actually really despise English?

[mourad120]

who in asia actually really despise english? :d

taiwan ...........

[Jazaireya4ever]

taiwan ...........

Interesting, elaborate on it please

[Desert winds]

al khiyal tres bien! tres intelligent!