Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-30967537-20190618052218/@comment-30967537-20190625100448

"Paid" and "spent" are not "one and the same" ...
 * I paid £10 for this ... I spent £10 on this
 * I paid him £10, I paid her a compliment ... you can't use "spent"
 * I spent time doing something ... you can't use "paid"

English/British is one of the richest languages (because it includes so much from other languages) but it is also one of the most difficult to grasp all of the subtle nuances and absurdly different pronunciations of the same group of letters e.g. "ough".

Sadly, most foreign people speak English better than the natives (myself included ... my mother, who is Swiss, is constantly correcting me!) because they learn grammar and structure which is much more important in their spoken languages ... which is why I think all English people should learn at least one European language e.g. Spanish.

Now correct all of the mistakes I've made above!