is English easy or not

i think it is difficult to learn

After moving to Romania I've learned what a silly language English is. I think it's easy to learn at a level but not even native English speakers get it right all the time.

Here they learn a lot through gaming, films and music.

Opening, variation or language?

I hear you can go out for one as well

It is really easy. A few rules and memorize a ton of exception. Still easy.

exceptions*

There are many languages which are way WAY harder to learn.

Mandarin Chinese is more difficult than English...Russian is about as hard. (as English)

About as hard as English or Mandarin Chinese?

Cuz English's like really easy to learn.

I think it's easy

     What makes English difficult to learn for many people is that it doesn't actually derive from any actual ancient "British" root. Basically an heir to German dialects spoken by Angles and Saxons that swarmed into the island in the 5th-7th centuries, it absorbed a lot of words from the native language. This was a mish-mosh of ancient dialects that had mixed with the Celtic tongues of earlier migrants, heavily influenced by the Latin spoken by the Romans who ruled the island for a few centuries. Compounding this was the fact that many Latin scientific, geographical, literary and philosophical term derived from Hellenic roots. Later, England was conquered by Germanic vikings who had first lived for more than a century in France, picking up the local Celtic, Latin, and German idioms. After 1066 the conquerors' language and Latin as used in the Catholic Church were the "official" languages, but the Anglo-Saxon dialect was the most used tongue. A gradual merger resulted in a common language by the 14th century.

     Still, many parts of Britain retained their own versions of the language. Still today, heavy Scottish, Welsh, Cornish or Irish accents are difficult for many other English speakers to understand. Add to that the many places around the world that England colonized and the words taken in from those languages, and a lot of English speakers have trouble understanding each other. (Once, working to set up a Rolling Stones concert, I overheard a conversation between a back-up musician--a Jamaican country boy--and the monitor mix technician--Outback Australian. After five minutes of frustration the called over the British stage manager to translate.)

     So words that sound the same but have different meanings (feet--feat, blew--blue, to--too-two) that come from different root languages, different ways of pluralization (horse--horses, foot--feet, hippopotamus--hippopotami) and myriad other confusing details that have no set rules because of the different original sources making learning English difficult.

English is one of the easiest languages to learn