Why is English a world-wide spoken language and not another one?
The reason why English is so widely spoken is not because it is so easy, because it is not. I am leaning 5 languages right now: Korean, Japanese, Russian, Latin and Italian which I am no longer learning. I also speak Azeri, Turkish and English fluently. In my opinion, English is the third hardest, Russian being the hardest and Latin being second. Japanese is definitely the easiest of them all grammatically, but when it comes to the alphabet, Korean has only 24 letters. If number of letters really made the language easy, Hawaii language has 11. I find Japanese easy, because unlike most languages it does not have the singular/plural form of nouns. Also, unlike many romance languages, it does not have the definite and the indefinite articles. Word order does not matter in Japanese, but to make communication easier, speakers follow a certain order, but no matter what the order is you will be understood. All these are also in Turkish and Azeri with exception of singular/plural form of nouns
