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Keith Anderson wrote:
> Many phrasal verbs make no literal sense at all, eg. if you consider
> "to put up with" (meaning tolerate), it can only really be learnt by
> memorising it; there's no apparent logic.
Colloquial expressions are one of the hardest parts of learning
any language, whether it's recognizing your native ones as such and thus
untranslatable or figuring out the meaning of those in your target
language. My beginning German students could come up with some really
hilarious combinations 8-)
> Very difficult indeed for learners of English.
And native English speakers learning other languages.
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