Hobbo's Poems
A quirky look at life from a Yorkshire poet and his dog's perspective
Easy English for beginners
Easy English for beginners I'll teach you how To pronounce bough. Not as is sport That's saved for nought. No, don't nod off It's not like trough. And please don't go It's easy though. I'm sure that you Will soon be through. With all this stuff Enough's enough.
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Excellent!
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Cumbrians won’t need pronunciation guides of course!🙂
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Noa we doant! How’s this for a Cumbrian joke:
‘What’s the difference between a foot and a camera?’
– ‘Dunno!’
‘A foot has five toes and a camera only has fortos’ (Only works with Cumbrian accent!)
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Very good!😂Works for me!🐪
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I can’t imagine how anyone learns English. Great poem that points that out!
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Thanks. I got the idea after trying to teach a French friend English.🙂
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Ha ha. I think French is hard to learn too. Lol.
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😂I think any second language is difficult unless you are brought up with it.🙂
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English is a tough language to learn, I know this first hand. No bilingual classes when I was growing up.
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My French friends were always telling me how difficult that English was. I think the poem is a small illustration of one of the reasons why.🙂
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perfectly captures the zaniness of our pronunciations and how diiicult it must be for others to learn
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Yep. It must be difficult if you haven’t grown up around it.🙂
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