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

/^t/Summing up this whole discussion my personal opinion is that English is an easy language to learn if you just want to use it while shopping or when you want to talk about the weather but when it comes to serious matters like writing an academic discourse, reading professional magazines, translating different texts or just to speak fluently on every topic with English natives it appears to be quite hard. If we think about all those grammar tenses and their usage which for Polish learners are quite confusing, when and where I should put these articles "a", "an" and "the" only if you are English you have no such problems. So many idioms, irregular and phrasal verbs to remember, countable and uncountable nouns how and where to put them? Those are difficult questions but one good proverb says: "Everything is difficult before it is easy". We must remember that nobody is perfect there are lots of intelligent and highly gifted people but not everyone is prodigy and for some people not even English will be easy but Chinese or any other language in the whole world.