Merhaba,

  I just found a sweet CELTA (the price is not sweet) for teaching English, and with in 1 one year I should be off and ready to teach . For those native speakers of Turkish could I have input on the difficulties you had learning English? These I will keep in mind when I begin to teach to help others.

Many thanks

English is a chaotic language. Full of exceptions and irregularities. Still simpler than learning French or Italian though. I don´t like it. But I have to use it to communicate. I wish it was simple and regular as Turkish then it would be a piece of cake to leant it.

Yes, English is the worst because of the "few" rules many "exceptions"

I think English is difficult because of the many rules, but how is the vowel sounding or any other things that made english hard to learn?

I am thinking of teaching children so I have to make lots of games   to help

 None of the languages is difficult enough if you have so called language aptitude and do you really think English is the hardest of them to learn?

And as far as kids are concerned ,in my opinion the best of teachers should teach them.Young learners absorb info so quickly and if the teacher is pseudo´teacher´may do more harm to them than good.He or she may only root mistakes and make their learning more difficult in the future.

Anyway

for games and other resources look at

www.englishtips.org

Russian site that provides all books,dictionaries,films,software,games,ect...

English version available,to download you must register

one more thing,future teacher of English

we say

to improve English not to better...no personal offence..just a thought

No offense taken and thanks for the tips. Will take them into consideration!

 my pleasurekeep in touch in case you need any help)

Yeah, Turkish is very simple. So simple I want to slash my wrists sometimes. 

I´m not a native speaker, so I can´t say a whole lot about the main question, however from observing my bf who is Turkish and speaks English at an intermediate/almost advanced level, it seems that one of the main challenges in learning English is the placement of prepositions in a sentence and using verbal phrases. I don´t know if it´s a challenge for every learner or just him, but I think that´s something that might require extra attention when teaching.

Though more colloquial in tone, it is not incorrect to use "better" as a verb synonymous with "improve" (I double-checked in "Use the Right Word" just to make sure).

And, I would only hope that the teacher would uproot mistakes . I would be more concerned if s/he made them ingrained or planted (if you want to stay with the botanical vocabulary) them in the children´s minds.

Me too

when i study my lessons, i have to open all the past lessons and review them all over again.  As you could imagine my office table, occupied by my turkish lessons.

 Thank you for correcting and pointing verb better,we are learning all the time and it is fascinating.