What makes language easy or hard to learn?

• It’s easy when:

• It’s real and natural.

• It’s whole.

• It’s sensible.

• It’s interesting

• It’s relevant.

• It belongs to the learner.

• It has social utility

• It’s hard when:

• It’s artificial

• It’s broken into pieces.

• It’s nonsense.

• It’s dull and uninteresting.

• It’s irrelevant to the learner

• It’s belongs to someone else.

• It has no social value.

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