srsly.

I am a native Portuguese speaker (so it is "less dificul" for me to learn the other latin languages). However, it was easier to learn English than Italian. Obviously I am talking about the grammar. In terms of vocabulary it was easier to learn Italian (because a lot of words are extremely similar).


When it comes to French, it is even harder, for example.


English is a "direct" language. Probably one of the easiest languages to learn. How to learn English:


1. Learn the verbs to be and to have;
2. Learn the "negative form";
3. Learn the "interrogative form";
4. Memorize the dictionary.
5. Watch a lot of stuff in English.


Now if you are talking about "dominating" the language...like a native, every single language is difficult.

It all depends. English has more exceptions to every rule than most languages I have learned. Like for example German is like hard-mode English. It is SUPER easy for a german to learn English but hard for english speakers to learn German(proper). Some languages have rules with hardly any exceptions. It also depends on the 80/20 rule. Like for example I don’t speak fluent Japanese, but the majority of Japanese to carry on most daily conversations has few exceptions to the main rules.

I have worked for multinational companies most of my life and people from other countries make a TON of mistakes, and I notice trends in errors thay make due to not learning exceptions

lots of slang

Yep, German is hard. Tried it and gave up.

By "exceptions" (in English) you mean, for example, the irregular verbs? It wasn't that difficult to learn, if I remember correctly.

Plus, English do not have a lot of words to say the exact same thing or the exact same word so say multiple things (like in Portuguese, for example).



Now... I agree that foreign people make tons of mistakes. I do it everytime (especially if I am not paying attention to what I am doing, or if I just changed from a latin language to English).
Every language has a lot of slangs. You just don't learn them (usually). Portuguese is full of slangs (so I believe the same happens with Spanish and Italian). In Portuguese, I can say a sentence in a way you would understand (if you know Portuguese but are not a native)...and then say the same sentence in a way that only natives would understand, for example.