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The article states that the hardest thing to learn in a language are structural distinctions which one's native language does not make. Does anyone here have ex

The article states that the hardest thing to learn in a language are structural distinctions which one's native language does not make. Does anyone here have experience of such features that English has, coming from a different language?

avidiax 5y ago
Gendered pronouns Some of the verb tenses (e.g. past perfect continuous) don't exist in other languages. Verb inflection
- meepmorp 5y ago
  What's your native language?
  - avidiax 5y ago
    I don't speak it, but this is relative to Cantonese.
yakireev 5y ago
Articles, as in "a" and "the". Slavic languages don't have them, and we Russians can never learn to use them properly. Alas. Some languages don't mandate always keeping track of whether something is "an object" or "the object", can you imagine?