Think the English language is easy to learn? Well, check this out for size!
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I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, lough, and through?
Well done! And you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead--
For goodness sake don't call id "deed"!
Watch out for meat and great and threat.
(They rhyme with meat and straight and debt.)
A moth is not a moth in mother
Nor both in bother, brother in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose--
Just look them up--and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart--
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five!
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-T.S.W.
We read this in Honors American Literature today, and I thought it was hilarious. People who have English as their first language don't realize how difficult English is to learn until they see things like this.
anyways I still learning 
