Sean Sutherland, University of Westminster The prime minister, David Cameron, wants more Muslim women in the UK to be taught English to reduce segregation between different linguistic communities and even limit the lure of extremism. Most of us who have tried it probably feel that learning a new language is difficult, even if that new language is similar to our own. So how difficult is it to learn English and especially if your first language is quite different? The difficulty of learning a new language will depend on how similar that language is to one you already know. Despite English …