All languages have idioms, but the range, variety and unpredictability of English idioms are difficult for foreign language learners to acquire. The final phenomenon that makes English so difficult to learn is grammatical patterns—English has a number of unusual grammatical patterns and sentence-level patterns.

English is a tricky language because there are so many exceptions to rules of pronunciation and grammar. In a phonetic language, the letter sound is predictable and consistent so, spelling usually equals pronunciation. There are 27 letters in Spanish and 30 different sounds.

It has been called one of the most difficult languages to learn. Both for learners and native speakers alike – largely due to its unpredictable spelling and tricky to master grammar. We’re looking at some of the general reasons why people find learning English particularly difficult…

The Hardest Languages In The World To Learn

• Mandarin. Right at the top is the most spoken language in the world: Mandarin.
• Arabic. Number two, Arabic, challenges English speakers because most letters are written in 4 different forms depending on where they’re placed in a word.
• Japanese.
• Hungarian.
• Korean.
• Finnish.
• Basque.
• Navajo.

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TIL: The word with the most syllables in the English language is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Category:English 10-syllable words

• diiodohydroxyquinoline.
• ovolactovegetarianism.
• heterophenomenological.
• dimethoxyphenylethylamine.
• triacetyloleandomycin.
• extravehicular activity.
• biological immortality.
• abetalipoproteinemia.

The most difficulty arises when people learn English when they don’t have the advantage of sharing many borrowed words or grammatical patterns with English. This will include speakers of Arabic, Urdu and Bengali – three of the most common languages spoken by Muslim immigrants in Britain.

Trypophobia is a condition where a person experiences a fear or aversion to clusters of small holes. The condition is thought to be triggered when a person sees a pattern of small clustered holes, bringing about symptoms, such as fear, disgust, and anxiety.

A person who has trichophobia has a persistent fear of hair, particularly seeing or touching loose hairs on the body, clothing, or elsewhere. This fear can lead to a number of symptoms that may interfere with everyday life.

Is there a cure for trypophobia? To the extent that trypophobia is a kind of anxiety, drugs used to treat anxiety may offer help. But there is no cure, and little research has been done to look for one. Exposure therapy—in which patients are gradually exposed to unpleasant images or situations—may be helpful.

The term trypophobia is believed to have been coined by a participant in an online forum in 2005. The word is from the Greek: τρῦπα, trŷpa, meaning “hole” and φόβος, phóbos, meaning “fear”.

With all technicality, Taxidermiphobia is not a defined phobia. Rather, the closest word I’ve found to describe my fear is Automatonophobia. That is a fear of something representing a human-like figure, say wax figures, animatronics, busts, or statues. I rarely see the term including animals in the description.