English takes no skill to speak.

Seriously, some of the dumbest people in the world speak it. It takes no skill to speak. Whereas other languages such as Русский, Español, Tiếng Việt, 日本語, 汉语, 한국어 and several others require skill. I'm sick of hearing this comment about how English is one of the most difficult languages in the world. It's the easiest. Anglophones are also some of the most ignorant and obnoxious people in the world.

English is an easy language to speak? What a laughable thought. I wish I could properly clarify what I'm thinking. The use of auxillary verbs, and no clear reasoning as to when to use each form. Examples:

He reads occasionally. He is reading the book. Does he read occasionally? Is he reading the book?

If you speak English as your first language, or you learned it as a young child, that may seem quite natural to you. However, if English isn't your first language, it's quite confusing.

Why does English have so many ways to pronounce simple words? Rough, through, though. The ough part sounds different in each case. How about their, there and they're? Your and you're? Those are mistakes many people make.

English has many irregular verbs as well. The past perfect tense is done so many ways it's confusing.

There are many other things. The point is, English isn't a simple language. However, it's not the hardest langauge to learn. Any language is "easy" to learn provided you're exposed to it when you're younger than 6 or so.

Personally, I think the romantic languages are relatively simple, however, this is because of personal bias. If I was raised with Japanese, I suppose I'd consider Chinese or Korean to be simple compared to the romantic languages or Arabic.