English fascinates me because among the world' languages, its spelling is perhaps the most divorced from its pronunciation. I oppose any attempt to reform this because it represents living history, and we've already done too much to bleach history from our collective memory (to our imminent peril, but that's for another post).
One English quirk is the letter string "ough," which is so versatile that it yields these different sounds:
Though
Thought
Through
Tough
Bough
Cough
No, I would not want to learn English as a second language.
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