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difficulty and English
To be belongs to the set of irregular verbs in English ; some individuals, especially those who have learned English as a second language, may have difficulty recognizing all its forms.
Many academics often publish material in journals requiring different varieties of English and change style and spellings as necessary without great difficulty.
The differences in pronunciation of Iranian and Afghan Persian can be considerable, on par with Scottish and Cockney English, although educated speakers generally have no difficulty understanding each other ( except in the use of certain lexical items or idiomatic expressions ).
Shortly thereafter, Stiller, who spoke little English, had difficulty adapting to the studio system, and did not get on with Moreno, was replaced by Fred Niblo.
Chacón, from Venezuela, spoke little English and had difficulty understanding when Ashburn was calling him off the ball.
It was only with difficulty, however, that Pope Paschal II was persuaded to grant the pallium, as the papacy was attempting to again assert papal jurisdiction over the English Church.
A difficulty in English translations from Chinese is that English translations tend to specify a particular gender ( as in the case of " emperor " versus " empress " or " prince " versus " princess "); whereas, in Classical Chinese, words such as hou ( 后, " sovereign ", " prince ", " queen ") or huangdi ( 皇帝, " imperial supreme ruler ", " royal deity ") are of a grammatically indeterminate gender.
In English, other common idioms indicating difficulty in understanding complicated language are: " It is all Greek to me " or " talking double Dutch ".
Laslo's difficulty in speaking English led him to give his name as " Mason " to the immigration officials who let him into the country.
), the Universal Translator was probably developed independently on several worlds as an inevitable requirement of space travel ; certainly the Vulcans had no difficulty communicating with humans upon making “ first contact ” ( although the Vulcans could have learned Standard English from monitoring Earth radio transmissions ).
International students may have difficulty completing satisfactory assignments because of the difficulty with grammar and spelling, differences in culture, or a lack of confidence in English academic writing.
The prevailing anarchy in Ireland, a country which, nominally subject to the English Crown, was torn by feuds among its practically independent native chieftains, made the task of the lord deputy a difficult one ; the difficulty was increased by the ignorance of English statesmen concerning Ireland and Irish conditions, and by their incapacity to devise any consistent and thoroughgoing policy for bringing the island under an orderly system of administration.
John Clare, the nineteenth-century English poet based in Northamptonshire, wrote " The Landrail ", a semi-comic piece which is primarily about the difficulty of seeing Corn Crakes – as opposed to hearing them.
His difficulty with his second language is revealed as Art writes his dialogue in broken English, as when Vladek is imprisoned and tells Art, "... every day we prayed ... I was very religious, and it wasn't else to do ".
" In English, the difficulty of perceiving even brief isosyllabic lines as rhythmically equivalent is aggravated by the inordinate power of stressed syllables.
However, some find difficulty in speaking fluently due to a limited vocabulary and the general lack of usage of the English language as a conversational lingua franca among Sabahans as a whole.
For the first time, a herbal was available in England in the vernacular, from which people could identify the main English plants without difficulty.
* Spelling: probably the biggest difficulty for non-native speakers since English spelling does not follow the alphabetic principle consistently.
There are also three difficulty settings, which also determine the length of the game in the English version.
He knew a little German from singing Lieder and said that he could read basic English, but had difficulty in speaking it.

difficulty and written
An individual with global aphasia will have difficulty understanding both spoken and written language and will also have difficulty speaking.
This difficulty was notably written about by economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, both of whom called it the " economic calculation problem ".
Fermat was not the first mathematician so moved to write in his own marginal notes to Diophantus ; the Byzantine scholar John Chortasmenos ( 14th / 15th C .) had written " Thy soul, Diophantus, be with Satan because of the difficulty of your theorems " next to the same problem.
" This confusion, as Lynn Hunt writes, " demonstrate the difficulty of drawing ... a clear generic demarcation between the erotic and the pornographic ": indeed arguably " the history of the separation of pornography from eroticism ... remains to be written ".
Reading disorders-any of a group of problems characterized by difficulty using or understanding the symbol system for written language.
Programs were written, with some difficulty, to take advantage of the exact timing of the machine to avoid any " dead time " on the CPU.
Because marches were some of the first music to be written for grade school bands ( which were just becoming prominent throughout the country ), many marches are fairly modest in difficulty.
The name of the goddess was written in various ways: Sirona, Đirona, Thirona, indicating some difficulty in capturing the initial sound in the Latin alphabet.
McKinney, Wright's daughter, writes that they were written at " a precious and dearly-won time of warmth and bounty to counterbalance at last what felt, in contrast, the chilly dearth and difficulty of her earlier years ".
( The Cyrillic alphabet doesn't have special letters for q, ğ and w, so Mişär speakers have no difficulty reading Tatar written in Cyrillic.
Compounding the problem is the difficulty in ascertaining how much minstrel music was written by black composers, as the custom at the time was to sell all rights to a song to publishers or other performers.
A book, ' The Fundamentals of Density Functional Theory ' written by H. Eschrig, contains detailed mathematical discussions on the DFT ; there is a difficulty for N-particle system with infinite volume ; however, we have no mathematical problems in finite periodic system ( torus ).
There is only a slight difficulty if the sequence has fewer than two elements: the summation of a sequence of one term involves no plus sign ( it is indistinguishable from the term itself ) and the summation of the empty sequence cannot even be written down ( but one can write its value " 0 " in its place ).
However, developers and advocates of competing emulators often criticize ZSNES for its relatively poor accuracy and being written in x86 assembly, meaning non-portability across processor architectures and high difficulty to develop and maintain.
As he had written about a subject that was considered daring at the time, Maugham had some difficulty finding a publisher.
Gulati went on to say that she sympathised with the teenager's difficulty in balancing her culture with her upbringing ; " She has obviously been unable to express herself in terms of her family and she probably talks like this to her friends, or has written these songs in private ".
He did complete some short works in 1997 and also a Ninth Symphony ; its score was almost unreadable because he had written it with great difficulty with his left hand.
Though apprenticed to a carpenter, he eventually abandoned this trade due to extremely poor eyesight – later in life, faced with difficulty reading official documents, he would insist on spoken reports rather than written ones.
The need for a language-specific Hebrew website derived from the difficulty of typing and editing Hebrew texts in a left-to-right environment ( Hebrew is written right-to-left ).
Some districts also have " Intermediate " level competitions, where the questions are written with a lower level of difficulty to provide experience to new, younger players.
The third movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto (' Allegro Ma non Tanto ', not overly fast ) is widely known amongst violinists for its formidable technical difficulty and is widely considered one of the several greatest concerto movements ever written for the instrument.
Both themes, the difficulty of passage and the presence of ghosts, are referred to in the famous Icelandic song Á Sprengisandi, written by Grímur Thomsen ( 1820-1896 ).
He wrote many masses, some of spectacular difficulty, most likely written for the expert papal choir ; he wrote over 100 motets ; and he wrote 18 settings of the Magnificat, and at least five settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah ( one of which survives from a single manuscript in Mexico ).

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