English is my native language and for me personally the romance languages are fairly easy to learn, but most everything else not so much. I do okay with French and am pretty decent at Spanish, but the asian languages I’ve tried are much more difficult because of the many differences in grammar/sentence structure. I’m conversational-ish with Japanese and can say choice useful phrases in Mandarin and Korean, but I doubt I could ever master any of them, especially the writing which is a whole other challenge. Other languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Punjabi, Russian, Polish… those I can basically only swear in and ask where the bathroom is. Lol
