Question for anyone who knows English as a second language, was it an easy or hard language to learn?

[Anonymous]

[NamerOfStars]

I'm a native speaker, but the consensus I've gotten from those who aren't is that English isn't too hard- until you try to pronounce it. Some people will tell you that English has no consistent system of phonetics, but that's not true; it actually has six of them. The problem is there's no consistency which is used where, not even among a given origin language.

[Zenpanda]

Movies, cartoons, anime and video games with my older brother as a child (we also spoke English to eachother eventhough were Dutch).
So to me it was easy as I started from a young age.

[jennifer_bloom]

I thought it was hard but it was because I was shy and afraid to speak in public when I was younger.

[DryGermanGuy]

Relatively easy, but as a young person you take up new content like a sponge. I found English, French and Spanish very similar in their complexity.

[Astarlessnightsky]

Hard, but much more easy than french or japanese.