At least English is an easy language to learn.
I’m not sure whether it’s changed or not, but it used to be said that people from the UK and USA were far from the world’s best at learning a foreign language. I started to do French A level, but dropped it due to mental health problems. Failed Spanish O level. Only 1 out of the 4 person class passed. Got a mediocre equivalent of a B for Latin O level. The first bouts of ECT wiped great chunks of what I’d learnt away.
When I was in a Connecticut high school, they asked the rhetorical question, “Why is English so difficult to learn?” The answer was that rules for English speaking had so many exceptions to each rule.
Yeah I’ve seen memes like that. I don’t know why some primarily English-speaking people think English is a difficult language. It’s a pretty simple language, really. And most languages have a lot of weird exceptions.
My pen pal visited from Brasil and said, “I want to make sex and have love with you.”
And you turned them down because of their grammar, right?
Just a thought but maybe languages that historically tend to have spread far and wide tend to have less grammatical consistency just because of the great distances between the areas that speak it.
I mean that would probably just make for more dialects but perhaps it contributed to its seeming lack of universal rules like “I” before “e” except after c.
I’m sure there’s a long complicated, funny story behind all the different spellings of words lol different rulers and popular literary works changing certain customs etc. This is all just my therory tho haha feel free to disagree if you’re a language expert or something and this is all just hogwash 
Connecticut, what a treasured land it is 
I think English is a much more free language, so its become complicated over time. With all the freedom English allows for its no wonder there are inconsistencies and confusion when learning it. Like in french there is a body that officially determines if a new word is masculine or feminine. English doesn’t have an official body that decides things like that. In English people can combine words and you know what they mean. Like some people combine gigantic and enormous to form ginormous and people know what you mean. Other languages don’t allow for that kind of freedom.
They do though. My language is exactly the same.
Also, in my language, if you put two words together to form a new word (like in “washboard”) that’s perfectly fine linguistically. Everyone makes new words all the time. And there’s no confusion.
What language are your thoughts if you know more than one?
Both of the ones I speak fluently. None of the other 3 languages I can just understand. Sometimes I have to translate my thoughts to my first language before speaking and sometimes I can’t find the words in my first language.
I heard a joke that was like “English waits in dark alleys to beat up other languages, then rifles through their pockets for loose grammar”
I would guess that english is so easy to learn in part because it is so ubiquitous that people are exposed to it so frequently and early on, and in part because English has siimilar features to like a dozen other languages.
It also has very simple grammar and syntax.
I am fluent in English and pretty decent in French because I live so close to French-speaking places and we get a lot of crossover. I think in mostly English, but when I am speaking I sometimes slip into Franglais (slang for when you badly mash up French and English) on accident.
It used to really annoy Mr. Star, who isn’t from here and isn’t used to French, because he is partially deaf and would think he couldn’t hear me properly, rather than me just accidentally not speaking his language.
English is easy to learn, hard to master.
@Ninjastar I mix up Danish and Norwegian all the time.
Sometimes if I’m tired enough, I forget half the Scandinavian words I need, and replace them with English
Out of all the languages i tried to learn as an adult, Flemish was easiest to pick up, but i have forgotten almost all of it.
Someone once told me french has significantly less words than English. Like a huge difference