The Most Difficult Word/La Más Dificil Palabra?
Just as an opinion, but what do you think is the single most difficult Spanish word to understand?
Para ti, ¿cuál es la más difícil palabra de comprender en inglés?
(Please correct my Spanish/Corrige mi español por favor 
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For me, it's either "se" or "que", because both have a myriad of uses.
8 Answers
Ya.
It's used in so many ways. Getting the right placement takes practice.
Para ti, ¿cuál es la palabra más difícil de comprender en inglés?
Since no one has answered this yet, I'll try, although I am so familiar with the language now, that I would struggle to answer the question. However, I would say that "it", "one" and "his/her" are still words I keep getting wrong even though I know their rules. As a beginner, I remember I had a mental lists of hundreds, if not thousands of words that used to give me a headache, and I found ALL of them extremely difficult to pronounce.
As soon as I stopped thinking about how difficult English words are, and I concentrated on communicating and understanding what I needed to know and say, these problems vanished into thin air.
Bottom line: stop whimpering (using English) about how hard Spanish words are, and try to use Spanish to talk about things that interest you, rather than lexical and grammatical difficulties. Before you know it, you'll speak the language.
"Se" and its many used to bothered me and some still do, but I am getting more comfortable with it not. Reflexive verbs gave me a problem too, but now, I look back and scoff at how it gave me a problem. Now, I struggle with when to use the past participle. I think this is because they usually translate the same as the past in English.
For pronouncing a word, I definitivamente have a hard time with "definitely" in Spanish.
I would say for me the greatest difficulty I have is translating the english verb "to get" into spanish. There are so many different contexts to which this verb can be applied. Conseguir, Obtener, Coger, Recibir, Tomar, Mandar are just some of the examples of verbs which can be used to translate the various forms of "get".
I struggled to pronounce this phrase when trying to ask the question;
¿A qué te dedicas? = What is your job? What do you do /(lit to what do you dedicate yourself?)
I found saying/pronouncing the te then de something of a tongue twister until I slowed it right down and practised this short phrase on my own at home before trying it out on suitable occasions with people.
I´ve had a terrible time learning the word zanahorias (carrots).
Me cuesta mucho aprender la palabra zanahorias.
The preposition "a" creates a world of confusion for me, sometimes. I put it in the wrong place, I don't put it in at all...but I'm learning and getting better at it.
