Actually, English is pretty easy to learn. I'm currently trying ("trying"... I mean really, I'm not doing much) to learn Russian because my boyfriend's family immigrated from Russia - I haven't understood much yet. Plus, I don't really get the alphabet they use. And have you ever learned French? If you want to speak French, you have to know if the sun is masculine or feminine |D Seriously, I can't remember. (I think the moon was masculine, while the sun was feminine.) English just has "the" as an article, while in French you have two: "le" (masculine), "la" (feminine).
And don't you EVER try to learn German: there are THREE articles: "der" (masculine), "die" (feminine) and "das" (neuter). German Articles, everyone! And seriously, I won't start explaining all the cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive). Even native speakers don't know how to use them properly
English really is simple to learn. S-P-O, "a"/"an" and "the"... everything's so hilariously easy compared to other languages |D
But that's why I love the English language. It's easy to learn the grammar.
Still, I agree that the pronunciation is weird, and I still don't get the vowel shift completely - Middle English was pretty easy to read/pronounce. (Must be because it's very similar to German.)
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