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May 23rd 2006, 09:28 PM
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Reasons English is easy:
Nouns don't have genders.
Regular verbs are only conjugated in third person plural (in the present tense, at least.)
No moods.

Reasons English is hard:
Letters can make completely different, unpredictable sounds in different contexts.
The use of articles, although similar to some other languages, really doesn't make much sense, intuitively.
It has a lot of tenses (one example from the machine translation book I'm reading: the simple present tense of French can correspond to any of 4 tenses in English, depending on context.)