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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No. You just don't notice because you know the language natively.

I know Russian, and I've had a go at Polish. Despite this claimed one-to-one correspondence between pronunciation and orthography (which really isn't true, anyway), its unnatural combinations of consonants and small use of vowels make it stupidly hard to pronounce.

You don't even really pronounce letters in words as you do in the alphabet. For example, how would you pronounce "sz", "rz", "cz", etc?

Russian, on the other hand, has a much simpler phonology. Once you know on which syllable the stress is, you can deduct the word's pronunciation.