What is the difference between these two sentences? I guess the first one is correct but what about the second one? In what circumstances can we use it?
- "Speaking English is not so easy."
- "To speak English is not so easy."
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is the present form of a person doing it, and defines a general situation in this case.
To speak english
is tenseless and has no adjectives: It's not bound to a person, or something that speaks in general, so To speak english is not easy
is wrong
That's how I would define it