Is English Language to pick up at the start?

[Hugoenglish]

I feel that English is an easy language to pick up at the start. Many students can start speaking it fairly quickly and progress rapidly through the early stages. this might be because it seems not to have the complexity and abundance of grammatical rules that many languages have. However, this is also one of its difficulties; having mastered the basics of English, many students then find it hard to reach the very high levels, because there are so many exceptions to everything and so many funny little rules.

All in all, I'd say it is easy to begin with, but it gets a lot harder. if your goal is to reach fluency, then English is not an easy language. It has an enormous vocabulary, its spelling system is a mess and there are many tricky little rules. There are other factors that affect it, such as how close the language is to your own.

Spanish will be easier to a Portuguese speaker than a Japanese speaker because it is very similar. Personally, I don't think any language is easy, not if you wish to master it. As languages embody entire cultures, they are highly complex things and require years of learning for most. I'm still learning a lot about English and I have been speaking it since I was a baby and teaching it since I finished studying it at university. I too think that there is no such thing like an easy or difficult language. English has a lot of advantages for people wanting to be able to quickly get a basic knowledge of the most commonly used phrases and respond to simple yet useful questions.

That's why English probably is faster and easer to learn than for German for example where the nouns and verbs have different endings depending on the context you are using them in. English words usually don't have varying endings (there is almost no declension and no conjugation in the English language) which reduces the number of pitfalls you are bound to stumble into when learning other languages. Also, the English language has a lot of words that are made up by only 3 or 4 letters and there is a good balance of consonants and vowels which makes it easier to learn and memorize new vocabulary.

An English word usually has different meanings depending on the context - a fact that I regard as another advantage for learners of English because you can express a lot of different meanings with a relatively small number of words. It all depends on who are learning the English Language…..!!!