A word often has many meanings such as "I present this present to you at the present time" or "I was crook at the crook who stole my crook and made me feel crook".

Wow - how do I translate that into Indonesian for my friends?

Also Australian English has these wonderfully weird expressions ,which I needed someone to translate for me when I first heard them - "the place is a dog's breakfast", "don't spit the dummy" and "chuck some snags/sangas/bangers on the barbie".

In my Indonesian language it is so much easier.

Indonesian has no tenses and uses words like "yesterday", "now" or "tomorrow" to indicate past, present or future. "I buy fruit yesterday, now, tomorrow".

So is the English language the most difficult language to learn and understand?

My friends say that learning English is nothing compared to learning Chinese Mandarin, Egyptian or Polish.

Mandarin has four tones, so one word can be pronounced four different ways each with a different meaning.

The word "ma" can mean "mother," "horse," "rough" or "scold" depending on how you pronounce it.

There is no Chinese alphabet, just thousands upon thousands of characters.

Arabic is written from right to left, and some sounds don't exist in other languages such as sounds made in the back of the throat.

In Polish, words have many consonants which makes them difficult to spell and pronounce. For example, "szczcie" means "happiness" and "bezwzgldny" means "heartless".

It is all fun to me so I will just carry on, and someday I may get to meet "Blind Freddy" who everyone except me seems to know.