Is English an easy language to learn?

[Valmy]

Huh.  Weird I thought the oral version was much easier, the wacky spelling does not come into play.

What wacky spelling?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioUK6I73_bk

[Syt]

Personally what I find difficult are the large number of similar sounding verbs but with different prefixes that change the meaning. 

I hadn't thought of that.

rinnen = to trickle/to flow
gerinnen = to clot/to curdle/to coagulate
entrinnen = to escape
Zeit verrinnt = time is running out

greifen = to grab/to grasp (physically)
begreifen = to understand/to grasp (mentally)

Yeah, I can see how that can be confusing.

[celedhring]

I love that from German myself. The Kompositums and verbs with prefixes feel like a mathematical formula sometimes.

[Duque de Bragança]

French - Relatively easy vocabulary for an English speaker, but tricky pronunciation and certain elements of grammar. Oral language is much harder than written language.  If I were, say, a Chinese speaker learning French or English, I imagine I would find French the more difficult of the two.

Huh.  Weird I thought the oral version was much easier, the wacky spelling does not come into play.

You're not the only one. Written French with its literary tenses, tense agreement (same as in Castilian and Portuguese actually) even scares lots of native speakers.

[Duque de Bragança]

The only remotely useful language to me would be French (we work with a lot of French people in my industry). However I already speak two romance languages; seems overkill.

French is never overkill.   

I can figure out a lot of written French based on what I know of Spanish.  It's like a more elegant form of Spanish.  Italian seems like a "cooler" version of Spanish, while Portuguese is just wacky and not nearly as similar to Spanish as I would have thought.

Portuguese is still the closest to Castilian in terms of vocabulary unless you are talking of Asturleonese. Much more vowels in Portuguese though, which is actually a plus when learning foreign languages. The pentavocalist system in Castilian is more like a hindrance when learning languages.

[Syt]

Something that always confused me about French was whether an adjective goes before or after a noun.

[Zanza]

Personally what I find difficult are the large number of similar sounding verbs but with different prefixes that change the meaning. 

I hadn't thought of that.

rinnen = to trickle/to flow
gerinnen = to clot/to curdle/to coagulate
entrinnen = to escape
Zeit verrinnt = time is running out

greifen = to grab/to grasp (physically)
begreifen = to understand/to grasp (mentally)

Yeah, I can see how that can be confusing.

raten, abraten, beraten, zuraten, anraten, verraten, bevorraten, braten...

[Duque de Bragança]

Something that always confused me about French was whether an adjective goes before or after a noun.

Both, depending on the meaning. Usually after, as in more neutral. Before the noun is more like poetry or some idiom.

[Archy]

Personally what I find difficult are the large number of similar sounding verbs but with different prefixes that change the meaning. 

I hadn't thought of that.

rinnen = to trickle/to flow
gerinnen = to clot/to curdle/to coagulate
entrinnen = to escape
Zeit verrinnt = time is running out

greifen = to grab/to grasp (physically)
begreifen = to understand/to grasp (mentally)

Yeah, I can see how that can be confusing.

raten, abraten, beraten, zuraten, anraten, verraten, bevorraten, braten...

raden, afraden, beraden, aanraden, verraden, bevoorraden, braden we can alos to this silliness 

For us Flemish English is easy to learn a lot of it is around day to day. we use subtitles on tv.
Seeing that German and Dutch share the same Dialectcontinuum, most of the basic stuff is understandable for Dutch speakers.
I even once was asked in a café in Trier by and Anglophone which kind of German we spoke (Schwyzerdeutsch, ...).

[DontSayBanana]

German was extremely easy for me, but I got to skip the trouble most Americans have with the phonetics- switching accents has always come naturally to me, so I didn't have the trouble with ä, ö, or ü that Americans typically have, or the vowel + consonant + ch construction (like in mädchen or brötchen).

[Syt]

Personally what I find difficult are the large number of similar sounding verbs but with different prefixes that change the meaning. 

I hadn't thought of that.

rinnen = to trickle/to flow
gerinnen = to clot/to curdle/to coagulate
entrinnen = to escape
Zeit verrinnt = time is running out

greifen = to grab/to grasp (physically)
begreifen = to understand/to grasp (mentally)

Yeah, I can see how that can be confusing.

raten, abraten, beraten, zuraten, anraten, verraten, bevorraten, braten...

raden, afraden, beraden, aanraden, verraden, bevoorraden, braden we can alos to this silliness 

For us Flemish English is easy to learn a lot of it is around day to day. we use subtitles on tv.
Seeing that German and Dutch share the same Dialectcontinuum, most of the basic stuff is understandable for Dutch speakers.
I even once was asked in a café in Trier by and Anglophone which kind of German we spoke (Schwyzerdeutsch, ...).

Similar with Dutch for Germans. Most of the time I can guess what's being talked about, and more so in writing. Similar but to a lesser extent with Swedish or Norwegian. Not so much with Danish for some reason.

[DGuller]

raten, abraten, beraten, zuraten, anraten, verraten, bevorraten, braten...

I just had a sudden urge to run off into the forest. 

[celedhring]

The only remotely useful language to me would be French (we work with a lot of French people in my industry). However I already speak two romance languages; seems overkill.

French is never overkill.   

I can figure out a lot of written French based on what I know of Spanish.  It's like a more elegant form of Spanish.  Italian seems like a "cooler" version of Spanish, while Portuguese is just wacky and not nearly as similar to Spanish as I would have thought.

Portuguese is still the closest to Castilian in terms of vocabulary unless you are talking of Asturleonese. Much more vowels in Portuguese though, which is actually a plus when learning foreign languages. The pentavocalist system in Castilian is more like a hindrance when learning languages.

Yeah, fortunately I'm Catalan and I have eight vowels. When I want to annoy Spaniards I exaggerate my accent by using them when speaking Spanish 

[derspiess]

Portuguese is still the closest to Castilian in terms of vocabulary unless you are talking of Asturleonese. Much more vowels in Portuguese though, which is actually a plus when learning foreign languages. The pentavocalist system in Castilian is more like a hindrance when learning languages.

Yeah, but the problem is I somehow managed to convince myself that it was a lot more similar to Castilian than it actually is before I bothered to explore it.  Plus I kept hitting a couple annoying mental blocks when I took an online introductory Portuguese course. 

[Duque de Bragança]

Portuguese is still the closest to Castilian in terms of vocabulary unless you are talking of Asturleonese. Much more vowels in Portuguese though, which is actually a plus when learning foreign languages. The pentavocalist system in Castilian is more like a hindrance when learning languages.

Yeah, but the problem is I somehow managed to convince myself that it was a lot more similar to Castilian than it actually is before I bothered to explore it.  Plus I kept hitting a couple annoying mental blocks when I took an online introductory Portuguese course.

Did you achieve Portuñol proficiency? Should be doable with your Argentinian connections.