English is not so easy as it seems Hello everybody! It is my first note on Italki. I would like to tell what I'm thinking about English as man who have Russian language as native. It will looks like short comparsion. English language seems easy at the first sight. It has strict structure where subject and predicate must stay on their positions. For example, in Russian language you can say "tomorrow in school I will go" or "In school tomorrow I will go" and it will be correct. All of Russian poems uses this method to make a rhyme. English has so much time definitions! Russian has only three - past, perfect, future. But many questions can appears who starts to learn Russian. How I can describe "I'm wathing TV". It is just "I watch TV". If you frend don't understand you and ask you again - "do you watch TV as a fact or are you watching TV now?", you just say "I watch TV now". All of additional information about the time contains in suffixes of the words. Articles are the last and the most difficult part of english for me, as you can see. Russian language has no articles at all. I mean "a" and "the". I read a lot about articles in English and learn how to use it. In Russian language you just can say "give me apple". How does article "a" or "the" helps in this sentence? If you don't see an apple on the table just go to the shop, buy it and give me that *** apple! It was a joke. It so difficult to understand where I should use article or not: names, countries, countable nouns, uncoutable nouns, lakes, rivers, planets. "The man" or "a man". I want to say he is just "man". There are more exceptions then rules. I think it is just should be remembered. Thank you all and bye. Vladimir.