Learning English is Easy
During childhood, a person can learn two and even three languages with relative ease. As one approaches adulthood it becomes more and more difficult to learn new languages. It requires conscious application and considerable motivation. I have often heard people saying that English is an easy language to learn. I have also heard that Chinese is the most difficult, and many speakers of languages are proud to say that their language is one of the hardest of all.
With English, I feel that it 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.
Furthermore, 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 easier to learn. I think if someone has desire to learn English, it won’t be hard at all. It is absolutely hard for those who complain that there are too many vocabularies to learn but hardly pick up a book to read.
In fact, English is easy to learn because it is anywhere and everywhere. We find English not just in the area that we live but also in the outer space, deep in the sea, at the peak of Everest…everywhere. As long as we see, listen and speak using it everywhere and every time then it will make it very easy to learn.
Moreover, 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.
I believe that it is your perseverance and how hard you apply yourself when studying another language that makes that language seems easier or more difficult. It depends on how much time you spend listening, speaking, reading and writing in that language and how curious (desire) you are to find out things you are not sure of. Of course, it does help if the language you are studying is similar to your own in some way. Every language has its peculiarities and also easy and difficult features. I also believe that the idea of English being easy to learn comes mostly from the fact that the very basic grammar rules are in fact quite easy compare to the other languages. So I agree that it may be easy to start off with English, but once one move on it is a bit tough. Nevertheless, when there is a will, there is a way.