What are these English "exceptions" I keep seeing people talk about?

There are several irregular plurals, for instance. Goose, geese. Child, children. Not sure what the problem is... all languages have some irregularities.

I don't actually think any language is harder than the others. Not that I've done research on it, but I do have a degree in Linguistics and I did study over a dozen languages.

Most of the exceptions are the past tense and past participle. In most words, you add 'ed' to put a verb into the past tense, and usually the past participle is the same.

I walk to school, I walked to school, I have walked to school. (regular)

I go to school, I went to school, I have gone to school (very irregular)

common mistakes made by foreigners trying to learn / remember exceptions: fled, blew (and blown for past participle) , dealt , forbade, drove, drew, rode, just to name a few.

Another thing that is difficult about English is that fact that it is very specific in which tense you need to use. I know that it is not unique to English, but there is no good rule for learning when to use regular present tense and continuous when the two are the same in your language. For example, I called a cell phone in another country and after the first recorded message, the English one came on and said "The person you are trying to call does not answer." Is not answering is more correct, but is just known intuitively.

Also, the structure for conditional sentences is complex and varies depending on which of 3 different types it is. In many other languages the structure is much simpler and stays regardless of what kind of conditional it is.

-Fine, an adverb must take a suffix to distinguish it from an adjective in the normal form, in comparative forms the adverb ending is dropped and the distinction is lost.

-Indirect objects that are pronouns are placed before proper nouns in sentences, but the order is switched when an imperative is used; an inaminate comes after a animate with a normal relative clause to the indirect inaminate unless it is restrictive which reverts the order to the origanal positions.

-Some phrasal verbs change transitivity by always splitting them, some must always be split.

-Compound adjectives shift stress in predicate positions unlike their attributive placement.

-English has slightly more pronoun suppletion than something like Spanish, while Spanish articles are inflected to agree, they are identical in form to object pronouns, English uses a completely separate word as an article, which requires learning more words? The Spanish plural pronoun also takes an S.

I find it so odd, I've seen some of your other posts, you seem to only know about European languages. It seems so strange that Russian is seen as beautiful despite having some of the most irregular, misshapen, overly redundant grammar I know, but English is "primitive". European languages are exceptionally difficult and nauseatingly irregular, they are flukes, they are mutants!

The rest of the world doesn't care to be like that, but its all Vortigese to you.

A language like Turkish has only 8 vowels, 20 consonants, hardly any clusters of consonants, stress on the final syllable, no gender, pronouns are declined identically to nouns, all nouns are regular and identical, all verbs except for "be" are regular and identical, no articles, wh-fronting is not done, all adjective comparatives are regular, etc. Yet this language is supposedly so much more complex because it has fewer spaces between the words.....English seems much more difficult than Turkish but nobody says anything because it is more analytical.

The world needs less "linguists" like you, the world would be better off if it weren't filled with so many European natives who think Russian and Icelandic are some ideal when they are not. The world needs fewer people who only know about European languages.

Gee, why are you so ticked off about this? If an ordinary person finds it hard to learn English because of exceptions to rules, what's it to you? I think it gives English a kind of down-to-earth personality.

Look at the I before E thing. That's USUALLY right, but not always.

You sound pretty angry about this.