>>49 Actually, English is more similar to German and Dutch, because it's a Germanic language. French and Spanish are latin languages, which is one of the reasons why French people generally suck at English. English is similar to French in terms of vocabulary (because of the French invasion of the British island in 1066), but when you look at the grammar, it's quite different.
As for the subject, English is by no means the hardest language in the world. It can be hard if you didn't grow up hearing it, because when you're young, it's very easy to pick up nearly any language. It only gets more difficult after that. For example, my mother tongue is Dutch, but by watching Cartoon Network a lot, I learned English quite easily.
English can be hard in the sense that its grammatical rules have a lot of exceptions. Other languages, however, such as Dutch, pretty much have no grammatical rules. Almost every other verb is conjugated in a different way, which can really confuse people who want to learn this language when they're over 10 years old. We find it rather easy, because we grew up hearing it everywhere. There are a lot of other things, but I think the idea's clear by now.