The Challenges Of Learning English As A English Language

People will definitely feel inferior every time they hear a word of English. They certainly would think twice to speak using English. We would be familiar with the expression, why should be English? It does not stop over there. The expression usually followed by argumentation, such as; English is difficult, difficult to understand, it took a long time to learn and understand, especially pronunciation and grammar, etc. We often hear those expressions. When we talk about English to others or our friends, they will certainly also reveal a similar thing, even students would say that if we are an English teacher who asked our students.

However, what they reveal is not wrong. Considering as a foreign language, English becomes difficult when Indonesian people try to learn it which is not a mother tongue. Learning English requires intensive study because that is not the daily language of Indonesian people use to communicate with each other.

For the students themselves, English is considered as daunting thing and difficult to learn. Generally, they put English as the difficult lesson after Math. In English, there are four skills, namely, listening, speaking, reading and writing. Of the four skills, there is one skill that makes students shy, even tends being afraid to learn the English, and especially is speaking. In fact, speaking is a skill, which is important to be learned, it will make light of students to interact and communicate with foreigner when they met or even when they