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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

Is English an easy language? I would say yes. That opinion is also shared by my fellow-students from the English Department who brush up their English and are certainly proud of its acquaintance. The same question asked in a classroom of teenagers in a primary school will not trigger such as an unanimous response. Well, first of all, any foreign language taught institutionally has to be learned, tested and graded. Naturally, those musts will deter some of the 'less-gifted' language learners from even hearing English. Attitude and character seem to be here one of the key concepts. Therefore psychologists maintain that extroverts are more apt to acquire second language, while introverts are not expected to make an astounding progress due to their timid disposition and the ascribed lack of communicativeness.