What’s the most challenging part of learning English for you?

As a native English speaker, my biggest issue comes down to words that have "ie" or "ei" in them. I often flip the letter order when spelling them. And their appears to be no rhyme or reason to their order. **For example.** 1. Field 2. Deign 3. Thief 4. Receiver 5. Grieving 6. Neither

I think grammar is the hardest especially when it is something that is very different in my native language. When I first started out I couldn’t understand why you had three different words for am, is and are for example it was very confusing. A lot of practice helped me. And tons of reading.

Gerund or infinitive

So i speak three languages and English is my second language. Sometimes i forget words.

Vocabulary is my Achilles heel...

Not listening enough. Listening (and watching videos) increases your vocab and gives you the intuitive feel for grammar: something does, or does not, look good. As a bonus, you learn culture, life, history etc, and find the idioms you need to google up to understand. And of course accent: if your plan is to rely on pronunciation you will guess from the rules, I have a poem for you: [https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html](https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html)

I find it difficult that many words have the same meaning and I often have to learn in which situation I should use which. For example, I just googled what the difference is between dwingling and decreasing and in which situation I should use which. I find the grammar very similar to my language (German) and personally I wouldn't mind making mistakes. The best way to learn something like that is to speak English a lot and I don't. But I like reading in English and I like writing.

for me, the most confusing thing is that I don't know whether my expression is correct or not, even I know it's grammarly correct, but I doubt if it's a native expression or not?

I need to develop my vocabulary , also i am an introvert, instantly speaking is totally a challenge for me. I always failed, I really used to typing instead of speaking. my grammar always wrong, my spelling sometimes wrong, ppl sometime make fun of my spelling like they on purpose say 'i am dnoe' in front of me.

The biggest challenge for me has been improving my listening skills. I realized it has improved with podcasts +transcripts + shadowing technique. 1- Listen several times during week without transcript 2- Listen and read at same time + shadowing technique.

For me its a lot of things that don't work. Like use Past Perfect continuous instead of Past Perfect in some situations. By the way, the question for native speaker. Do you use difficult tenses like Past Perfect Continuous(if you know what's this haha)? Because I heard that you can use Past Simple. and similarly with other hard tenses. And please tell me where are you from

Familiar words used in unfamiliar ways. For example, I was shocked when I first learned that "why" could be used as an interjection instead of asking for an answer.

pronunciation(speaking) People often understand the context without grammar, but if I mispronounce a word, the strategy doesn’t work. I have no idea how to deal with them, but I am trying to increase my opportunity of conversation. In fact, last year, it was the first year that I began to use English actively. Then my all English skills are incredibly enhanced. Active/output might work for me, I believe. edit: typo

present perfect, past perfect