When I decided to start a site on English, I had no idea what I was getting into. The lessons on English difficulties are fairly easy – I just write down what I know, double-check in the dictionary, and voilà. What turned out to be much harder is writing the ESL lessons. I thought I’d be clever and offer them not just in English, but in French and Spanish as well. That is, there are ESL lessons written in French from the French speaker’s perspective, and the same thing in Spanish. These sound quite tricky, but in fact they’re pretty easy too – since I have studied both French and Spanish, it’s not difficult to approach each issue “backwards” and see it from that language’s point of view.

So it turns out that the really tough features are the ESL lessons written in English! Trying to explain my native language using only my native language, without anything to compare it to and while trying not to use overly complicated vocabulary, that’s the hardest part. I would have thought it would be the easiest – you just never know. 🙂