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.

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Maybe I'm just weird for finding English and French (and other romantic languages) to be relatively similar grammatically. Most often they're all svo order, but I guess there are exceptions (object pronouns in the romantic languages). They all have the same subject pronouns. Compare that to Arabic, which has not just subject pronouns for single person, two people, and three or more people, but also different subject pronouns depending on case (well, I'm not sure, I don't know exactly how it works).

When it comes to conjugation, though, the romantic languages and English are very different.

So Dutch has (nearly) no grammatical rules? Sounds a bit scary to me.