Wow. This is an incredibly ignorant thing to say... just amazing how ignorant people are. Of course you think its easy, you learnt it from childhood and it is the language you know! just like someone as ignorant as you who great up in Saudi Arabia would think Arabic is easy and english is incredibly hard. As far as 'second languages' go, Engish is arguably the hardest to learn, because there are so many inconsistencys etc.

On another note, i think that the fact that North Americas baseball competition is titled 'world series' really summarises Americas attitude to the rest of the world.

I was just quoting your post in the case there was a misunderstanding and if you thought I was referring to the posts about World War II with the term, which I wasn't. You were trying to find a connection with my post, and I explained how it wasn't the same thing. It wasn't you trying to bring this back on topic either, because my post was much more relevant to this thread than any of the last 50. So it was more along the lines of you trying to bring it back Off Topic. As for the paragraph comment, I think a more befitting formating would have been double spacing rather than paragraphs. Paragraphs are used to distinguish main ideas, not to make something look nicer. My post had the same main idea, so I only used one paragraph. I will gladly switch to a more "readable" format though.

Most people who live outside the US really don't have any idea what is normal in the US.

Then again, most people in the US don't really have any idea what's normal outside of their little area in the US.

I guess that kind of makes it like the rest of the world.

I would say Chinese is the most difficult language in the world, followed by English.

Of course, if you speak any Latin-based language, it makes learning other Latin-based languages a lot easier. So someone who speaks fluent French as a first language wouldn't have too much trouble with English.

It's different in the UK as we know ALL about the rest of the Isles.

That way we know to avoid Birmingham.
I hear Birmingham is to be avoided in America too?

I would say Chinese is the most difficult language in the world, followed by English.

Of course, if you speak any Latin-based language, it makes learning other Latin-based languages a lot easier. So someone who speaks fluent French as a first language wouldn't have too much trouble with English.

Hm... I agree on Chinese being one of the most difficult languages to learn, but, in my opinion, English isn't the second, since romance languages (Catalan, Castilian, Italian, French, etc.) are far more difficult than English. I mean, each verb has a different variation for each person (both in the singular and in the plural) and they use a broader variety of verb tenses. Those languages are still less difficult than Chinese (whether Mandarin or Cantonese), in my opinion.

By the way, if you were referring to "Gangsta English" then maybe yes, English is the second most difficult language to learn.