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Word of the Day: The thing
You will hear native English speakers say the thing multiple times daily, but what are they talking about?
The thing is precisely the idea, fact, question, etc., that the person needs, is talking about or means.
Many students say, ‘English is too difficult!’
But, you see, that’s just it.
English is not too difficult; it only has too many words with various meanings.
Ha, ha, ha!
I bet you didn’t expect me to say that, did you?
You see, in this case, the thing refers to the difficulty of learning English.
Anyway, this is just the thing that I want to express to students.
English, itself, is not difficult.
We need to keep learning vocabulary and building our repertoire day by day.
That’s what we need to do to keep moving forward and improving.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 77.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.