Topic: In your opinion, what is the most difficult skill of learning English?

1. Many English learners say that listening is more difficult than any other skills. But in my

opinion, writing is the most difficult skill of learning English.

Firstly, writing requires good grammar. A non-native person has to remember a large number

of rules in structure which are quite different from their own language.

Secondly, as we all know that people spend less time to write than to listen, to speak and

even to read. Learners learning the language in their country are proved to read more than

any other skills while learners learning overseas must listen to the language most of their

time. In any cases, they spend little of their time for writing. It is clearly known that an average

person spend the most for listening, the second most for speaking, then reading and finally

writing.

Thirdly, when students of English as a foreign language write something, they have a big

question in mind whether what they write is correct or incorrect. Who can answer the question

for them and help them recognize the mistakes. It is, in many cases, the teacher who is

teaching them and is ready to give them a hand. The problem however I want to mention is

that the teacher does not have enough time to correct for all of them if there are more than

ten students in the class. When the teacher corrects the writing for just some of them, the

other students cannot recognize their own mistakes. Without correction, the mistakes may be

repeated many times and become bad habits which are hard to adjust.

In conclusion, writing is the most difficult skill that learners of any foreign language may face.

To be good at it, learners must give much effort.

2. In my opinion, the most difficult skill of learning English is listening. The procees of

learning a language is: listening-speaking-reading-writing. So listening is the most important

skill that is the key to the other skills. If speaking mainly requires your confidence, reading

effectively requires your knowledge of vocabularies, writing fluently requires your ablilty of

using grammar, then listening requires not only all of the things above but also your power of

logical prediction. That’s so complex. It’s very difficult to combine all. Ironically, I think there is

no choice for us except for practising listening everyday. Let me show you. Imagine that you

are listening a conference with many new words. If you feel embarrass at that moment, you

will continue missing the chances to listen the following words. So you need to be confident,

now is the time you used your brain. Basing on some words that you know, the expression of

people in the conference, the grammar that you have, predict the relationship between them.

In this case, maybe you must be like a detective more than a listener. Besides, you have to
practise listening day by day to familiar with accent of english speaker. As a whole, listening is

very hard. You must pass some fences in your mind to welcome a new language. Now,

listening still is a big problem to me.

3. Men who learn English as a foreign language often say that writing is more difficult than

any other skills. As the fact of the matter, most native speakers of the language have to make

their efforts themselves to write accurately and effectively even on what they are well aware

of. Needless to say, it is not easy at all for a non-native speaker to do something that an

average native speaker usually considers a difficult job to do. Here are three reasons which,

in my opinion, can answer the question why writing becomes the most difficult skills.

Firstly, writing requires good grammar. A non-native person has toremember a large number

of rules in structure which are quite different from their own language. This is a very big

problem if he or she learns the grammar with an English native teacher at the beginning. The

teachercannot help to point out the distinct differences between the two languages. In this

case, the learner must figure out the differences themselves and even outline some rules to

convert from their own language to the target language.

Secondly, people are often known to spend less time to write than tolisten, to speak and even

to listen. Learners learning the language in their country are proved to read more than any

other skills while learners learning overseas must listen to the language most of their time. In

any cases, they spend little of their time for writing. It is clearly known that an average person

spend the most for listening, the second most for speaking, then reading and finally writing.

Thirdly, when students of English as a foreign language write something, they have a big

question in mind whether what they write is correct or incorrect. Who can answer the question

for them and help them recognize the mistakes. It is, in many cases, the teacher who is

teaching them and is ready to give them a hand. The problem however I want to mention is

that the teacher does not have enough time to correct for all of them if there are more than

ten students in the class. When the teachercorrects the writing for just some of them, the

other students cannot recognize their own mistakes. Without correction, the mistakes may be

repeated many times and become bad habits which are hard to adjust.
In conclusion, writing is the most difficult skill that learners of any foreign language may face.

To be good at it, learners must give much effort.

4. Learning a language is to learn how to get fluency in 4 skills: Listening, Speaking,

Reading and Writing.It's not accidental that "Listening" is mentioned in the first position in

these four skills.Is it true that it is the most difficult skill of learning English?

In my opinion, listening is really the most difficult skill. In fact, it requires us a continuous

effort.However, before we decide to practise listening, we must have a basic knowledge of

English grammar so that we can realise and understand what the natives are

speaking.Therefore, "reading" and "writing" are also very important.They will help us to realise

the right structure when listening to English.English language has been spoken, or read by

many people in different area with different tones,therefore, if we don't practise regularly with

determination, it's very difficult for us to understand spoken English. Therefore, we must

practise listening English in all circumstances in life to understand and improve our speaking

skill. We can't speak English if we can't listen to what people say.Moreover, listening require

us a good reflexes while reading and writing don't.For example,a student who can listen well

may be fluent in writing and reading. But a student who is good in writing ang reading

comprehension may not be good at listening if he doesn't practise listening. Therefore, I think

that listening is the most difficult skill in learning English.

5. I have been learning English for a long time. It is true that I am a hard- working student

and my tests often get good mark except the listening parts. I have found out that is the most

difficult skill of learning English for me as following reasons.

First, listening is different from reading, we can read again and again if we can not understand

but for listening we can not listening again. While listening if I hear some strange words, I am

often interupted so I can not catch up with the following sentences. As a result, I can not

understand the content of the conversation or the monologe. This problem is so hard for me

to solve.

Second, we must all agree that pronunciation is the huge challenge in learning a foreign

language especially for vietnameses. In our language, there are only one - syllable words but

in English most of words are multi- syllable words, and in a multi- syllable word there is a

stress. It is very difficult to recognize stress in a word. Similar to word stress is sentence

stress, it must be very difficult to recognie stress in the sentences. Therefore, we can not
understand what the speaker are speaking.

Finally, the speed of speech in english is faster than in Vietnamese so for Vietnamese

listening comprehension is really the most difficult skill.

However, "practice make perfect", I think every learners will over come after a period of time

learning and using English.