Is English an easy language to learn?

I am not sure how it can be compared in that way.

It has a very broad vocabulary drawn from many languages over some 2000 years. These include Latin, Greek, German, French, Scandinavian; more recently (last few centuries) Indian and other Asian languages; and nowadays a lot of Americana - which tends to ignore etymology with a very few, rather peculiar results. Plus others: [i]algebra[/i] is close to its Arabic root, for example

This polyglotism gives English many of curious spelling and pronounciation results - e.g.:

- [i]Ruff[/i] and [i]rough[/i] rhyme with each other and with [i]tough[/i], but not with [i]through[/i].

- [i]Through [/i]rhymes with [i]too, two[/i] and [i]to[/i]) but not [i]or bough[/i]

- [i]Bough[/i] rhymes with [i]bow[/i] the gesture but not [i]bow[/i] the knot, which rhymes with [i]no[/i].

The language has a lot of formal grammar rules, as most languages do, and they allow you to write very elegant, accurate, clear [i]text[/i], and to [i]speak[/i] very accurately, mellifluously and concisely; but taken too far they can make everyday speech sound a bit stilted.

On the other hand, English does not assign genders to nouns, as happens in French. It does have irregular verbs but the verb constructions generally are fairly straightforwards.

Neither does English have generic and familiar forms of the personal address [i]you[/i], as in German and French.

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Just to make it more fun, the British Isles encompass four native languages of which one, Welsh, is still spoken and written widely if only within Wales; and even just the English of England comprises many accents and dialects.

In my opinion, English is [u]very[/u] difficult to learn, for a variety of reasons.
Example:
(a) speaking about the past:
I have waited
I have been waiting
I waited
I was waiting
I had waited
I had been waiting
The differences in meaning are very subtle.

(b) to + infinitive vs. gerund:
I like to go to the theatre
I like going to the theatre
Again, the meaning is slightly different, right? Or consider this example:
I stopped smoking (I quit)
I stopped to smoke (I stopped my car, to smoke a cigarette).

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People who think English is easy to learn are either native speakers, or people who do not know the language.

Dixi et salvavi animam meam.

I’m always amazed about how some non-English speaking people have learned it to such a high level. In fact, in the Scandinavian countries as well as the Netherlands, the average level of English is truly astonishing. In some cases it’s actually hard to tell they’re not native speakers.
After having taught myself Spanish to a reasonable level, I can say with certainty that English is a very forgiving language - It’s possible to make numerous mistakes in a single sentence and still be fully understood. That’s certainly not the case with Latin language verb structure. It also simplifies on other languages by dispensing with object gender and consequent adjective agreement.
This leads to far less thought required to say basic sentences.

My pet hate is the ever increasing incorrect use of an apostrophe with a plural. This makes my teeth grind.
I feel like keeping a big red marker and a tin of red spray paint so that I can correct this glaring mistake on shop signs or even other people’s graffiti 😂

No. It isnt. It is one of the most mongrelised languages, with roots from all over and almost none of the regular grammatical rules other languages can draw on.

Just even think about "there, their and they're" many English speakers don't know the difference
It would be confusing to learn, my sister in law has foreign students every year who stay with her and go to school to learn English, they come from France, Spain, Brazil Italy and most of them have had more than one language already, they all told me that it was very difficult and complicated compared to other languages, however they all successfully learned

I'm a native speaker but dyslexic... my opinion - it sucks!

Inconsistent syntax and rules.... like it's vs its verses nearly all other possessive use of the apostrophe. Whose vs who's again in another complete change to the possessive syntax rules.

There, their, they're... here, hear... etc

If I wrote a new computer language with all the syntax anomalies English it wouldn't last 2 seconds. How can your write a token parser with all those exceptions!

It's far from the hardest, I know that much. English is maybe in the middle, depending on your primary language (Does it use the same letters and similar sounds? If so, it'll be easier)

It’s easy to speak but very hard to learn to write with many similar sounding words all having different meanings and spelling.

It has to be easier than learning the gender of every inanimate object

Not the easiest nor the hardest.
Some of the hardest don't even use their voices.

If you can't whistle you would be very hard put to say anything in whistle language of sfyria on the greek isle of Evia. 🙃😈

it's got it's awkward parts and people love correcting grammar.

You're gonna have to learn your theirs there coz they're dicks about it. :D

I suppose so but I never cared to learn it to the best of my ability
I just wanted to get by lol

I watch anime with my son in Japanese with English subtitles. It’s often funny when the translation is too literal.