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cesheppa agreed:

English is interesting because it’s formed from MANY languages; I think all languages are like that (well all living languages.) a bit, but English (to me) seems a bit more of a mix than most. So a word often follows the rules particular to the language it came from. But of course there are exceptions all over the place (ie i before e except after C, but not in beige); I think exceptions are another thing that all living languages have, because a word gets imported from elsewhere, or the regular formation was awkward or hard to pronounce or something…

I think the easiest language to learn is the one (or are the ones) your parents have been speaking to you since you were laying in the crib barely able to focus on them. Everything else is a bit harder, but I’ve heard once you learn a second, the third is easier, the fourth easier yet, etc etc….

Ooops I accidentally agreed. Maybe I should be disagreeing…

serjo agreed:

I’m pretty fluent in written french but I cannot speak it, I don’t know why.I can read and write but it’s too difficult to understand when someone speak it to you even personally. As a Brazillian I can understand spanish very well, even so, I never studied spanish. I think english is the most easy language to learn although its roots are completely different from my native language (portuguese). It’s ironic that french has the same roots of the portuguese language and I find english easier to learn.

Nina agreed:

I think any language is simpler when youve grown up speaking that language, and so are other languages that your native language is deeply rooted in. Like my native language (which is an irony, because i speak English better than my native language), which has quite a number of words deeply rooted in the Spanish language and a mix of other Asian languages. So for me, its a cinch to learn Spanish since ive been basically hearing Spanish words that use the same meaning in my language