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/^t/We may try to ask the non native learners of English the question whether it is easy to them to learn the language. It seems to be common among them to approach it from the side of its grammar. Frequently we can hear that English is very difficult because you must learn a number of tenses, conditionals, passives, modals or irregular verbs, what seems to be a lot more than in other languages and in this way much more difficult. Another point of view may assume that English is difficult because of strange pronunciation rules or sometimes rather their lack. Frequently the teachers can hear questions like 'Why is this sequence of letters read in a different way in these two words?'. These difficult to answer questions definitely influence student's motivation and that in effect makes learning more complex.