English can certainly be difficult! It can understood through tough thorough thought though throughout the learning process.

Adultery is not the opposite of infantry; whimsy is not an adjective; you can live together in an apartment; and the Midwest is in the Eastern US.

past tense read and toxic lead vs reading and leading if somebody doesn’t underntand

vaseline sounds like it should have been spelled vasilene but the i and the e got switched as a funny prank and it stuck.

English-language spelling reform now.

As someone who speaks 3 languages, I can confirm english is a weak ass language.

It's strong point is that daily and normal speech and formal writing or speech are almost the same. Thats not the case with most languages, specially the older and more complex ones.

Maybe start with the fact that not all words in use in English are English words.

I genuinely read that as ba-se-lin-e

So? Eminem makes all the words in the English language rhyme so balance is restored in the world

My brain got fired while reading this. 🗿

It's phunny how fotographs phunction in filosofy.

There is nothing more useless than ph.

comb bomb tomb tome come

only two of these rhyme.

I've always found it funny how single vowels are pronounced in English, e.g. when you say the alphabet.

Any other language:

A, E, I, O, U

English:

Ayy, I (as in "mirror"), Eye, Oww, Yuu

Qu'est-ce que c'est ?

That's the ubiquitous "what's that" in French. All languages are evil to newcomers.

You're welcome.

I would like to recommend Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme—And Other Oddities of the English Language.

It's a pretty quick read and it explains exactly how the English language became such a mess. For each thing that doesn't make sense, it provides a reason that explains it. Short version: the timing of the Great Vowel Shift relative to the invention of the printing press really screwed it over. There's quite a bit more (Norman invasion in particular), but that was what codified all the badness.

Learning the "why" of so many previously preposterous language and spelling rules was gratifying and enlightening. They're still preposterous but slightly less maddening now.

There's also an excellent podcast interview with the author on 99% Invisible. Check it out. It made me buy the book and I definitely recommend it every time a post like this comes up.

At least English doesn’t have a “she” table, a “he” refrigerator, and a “neutral” lamp gender for everything.

read deed redemption, the farm flipper spinoff.

Base and bass (sound the same) and bass (sounds different)

Foundation

Instrument /deep sound

A Fish

How anyone learns English is beyond me