Is English the hardest language to learn?
English speakers hold a lot of myths about their language. English doesn’t have a much larger lexicon than other languages: Most those technical terms from Latin were borrowed by the other European languages, too. English isn’t the most difficult language for speakers of Indo-European languages to learn and maybe not even for other languages’ speakers. Maybe English is thought to be so difficult because so many people learn it and learning a foreign language is always difficult. Chinese seems very difficult to Europeans, but not nearly as much to Koreans or Japanese. Koreans learn a sizeable amount Chinese characters in school (though they don’t use them) and also Korean shares half its vocabulary with Chinese. Japanese shares less of its vocabulary with Chinese, but they both write using basically the same characters. A person who speaks vietnamese wouldn’t have much trouble pronouncing Chinese. Similarly, most East and Southeast Asians would find English a difficult language to learn
