Many languages do not have articles. There are neither in Russian, Ukrainian, nor in Polish, Czech or Finnish. If you look at the map of languages with articles and without (there is such one) – the whole of eastern Europe lives without articles (it makes you think, is not it). That is why it is difficult for Slavic languages speaking people to understand, what kind of articles we are talking about in the Romance and German languages (and this is Italian, Spanish, French and, of course, English).

In English, there are words whose plural form is performed not according to the rules – they simply need to be remembered. Let us look at them.

Unlike the English language, the plural in many others, for example, in Russian, is formed quite difficult. In addition to the plural, there are as many as three different forms for plural numbers with the certain indication. Compared to this confusion, everything is incredibly simple in English: 100, 101, 102 – any number – cats, apples, roads. Just add -s at the end and it is done.

This word has penetrated almost all the languages of the world. It has become a universal element of computer program interfaces. A word that sounds the same and is perceived in every corner of the planet. And yet this word has an amazing fate. Before it began to overcome cultural and language barriers, it existed in the form of a joke, a fashionable language misunderstanding. Here are these two letters, the meaning of which is clear to anyone: OK.

As a rule, such speech formation is not even a question – it is more a clarification, a confirmation request. So, how can such a clarification be built and written in English?

Many probably expected that we will talk about some more trivial examples like 7 or 3, but no. There are several films with the name "9", except this there is a musical, a computer game and a TV series – impressive! And most importantly – there are a huge number of idioms and expressions dedicated to 9. Let us discard the stereotypes that numbers are needed only for mathematicians, and expressions – only for the humanities and writers. Combine this all and get an unsurpassed result. So, here are some of these expressions.

Idioms – an integral part of the English language – are constantly found in colloquial speech, from comedy series to business negotiations.

So, we begin to collect reasons for which, it seems to you, you cannot learn English. Today we will analyze two extremely common ideas that many people, who have problems with learning a language, like to hide behind. These are such ideas as "you need to learn the language from the childhood" and "you need to go abroad and live there to learn the language". Familiar stories, is not it?