Do you think English is easier to learn than your native language?

I live in China and I teach a lot of students English. I think this is a kind of survivorship bias. You know since you are English native, those who are around you should be good at English so they can go to an English country. Most Chinese students will believe that English is way harder than Chinese. But from a perspective of language learning, I agree with your Chinese friends. It's true that English is more structural.

There is so much good quality English language content out there, and so many English speakers. Ignoring all the inherent complexities in the language, that alone makes it easier

Yes. English is apart from easy grammatically speaking, it is also in like the midway between romance and Germanic language so,,, it's easier at least for Spanish speakers i think (I'm a native Spanish speaker XD)

Yes , it’s way too easy than Arabic.

This is going to depend massively on *what* your native language is. I personally think Japanese is light-years more difficult than Mandarin. The most difficult part of Mandarin is getting past the aspect vs. tense issue—after that, it’s pretty smooth sailing as long as you’re not tone-deaf. Japanese, on the other hand, haunts me. Oh, you’re just going to not include three-quarters of the words in that sentence? Cool, cool—not like I need those to know what you’re trying to say or anything. :)

Chinese has the same word order as English. Korean and Japanese, on the other hand, are the furthest from English and among the hardest languages to learn. For most Koreans, studying English feels like a lifelong task that’s almost impossible to fully master.

Yes. Just because of enormous amounts of good quality learning materials and media in English. My native language is not obscure by any means but difference is substantial.

English is easier. My native language is Swedish. We have two “genders” so there’s two words for one, three different versions of adverbs and so on. We also don’t have “the” instead we treat nouns like verbs and change the ending there’s two categories with four versions in each + irregulars. We’re also a toned language with sounds that’s hard for an English speaker.

English isn't really difficult to learn, at least the one we commonly use on the Internet or casual conversation, formal english or competitive english is a different beast, but that's probably the same for every language. Anyways, while english isn't more difficult, it is different from what I am used to. Like my language as dedicated words for maternal and paternal blood relatives with different words for different gender. English just use one word maternal and paternal blood relatives and grandfather, or aunt. Also, it's so weird how saying cousin brother or cousin sister is considered wrong, just saying cousin doesn't always explain from whose family and what gender. Now, I understand that that extra information is likely private information and not necessary for strangers on the internet to know, but I am so used to the extra information that just hearing anyone say "my cousin" feels like I am missing information, even though I don't need that information. Besides, on reddit at least, most people have an avatar or Anime profile picture with random usernames, so going deep in the family history a bit more wouldn't hurt. Knowing more information is just more satisfactory, kinda like sauces in food. The food item on its own tastes good and the sauce isn't necessary, but it's sauce which gives the satisfaction and fulfilment. Then there is this thing where we have different pronouns based on respect or seniority within a gender in my language. English uses the same pronouns regardless of whether the person you are talking to or talking about is younger, similar age or older than you or whether they are your junior, same position as you, or your senior. This is the reason why many students who speak my language (we have many native languages in my country) learning english use "they/them" for seniors or elders, because the the word we use for they/them in my language is the same as the word used for seniors or elders, ie the word for unknown quantity/many quantity is the same as seniors and elders.

If you are asking about high levels of fluency and writing in prosaic or artistic ways? That can't be easy. But English is very forgiving, or at least American English is, and even if you have a screwy / loose level 2 ability you can function at a 95% level for day-to-day life, even in school, even if you aren't reading densely written literature or writing intense opinion pieces for a major newspaper. So my answer is - depends on what you are trying to get out of the language.

For Slavic speakers, my native language would probably be easier than English. For everyone else, it would be harder. And that is not taking into consideration the amount of material available for learning English or learning my native language

Depends what is your native language,  Iam kurdish and i know a little arabic without even trying to learn it, because they are very close. Words are pronounced the way they are written, also many similiar words. Also learnt english without trying, the reason was all my  (Phone system/videogame/movie) were set in english lang. Overall i find english Way easier than arabic but can't say for the kurdish as i was born with aside from the fact that you just have to know the letters and then you can pronounce every word correctly, unlike in english.

Apparently, Arabic Chinese (Cantonese) Chinese (Mandarin) Japanese Korean are the hardest to learn for English speakers. https://blog.rosettastone.com/the-complete-list-of-language-difficulty-rankings/ Being a Japanese native speaker myself, almost have given up learning English. It’s not only the order of words are opposite but also the cultures feel too different. I’m not confident if I can smoothly carry a conversation with people in the west even if I speak the same language.

English is one of the simplest languages in the world.

I’m Korean, and in my opinion, learning another language becomes so, so, so much easier when the sentence structure is similar or the same. Personally, I found learning Japanese really easy. Of course, memorizing kanji and how to read them was a bit tough. But when it came to listening and speaking, the grammar was so similar to Korean that even as a beginner, I had no problem. But with English, I had to think of what I wanted to say first, and then rearrange it to match the sentence structure.

As a Brazilian, I think English is probably a lot easier than portuguese.

As a native I think it's an easy second language. No grammatical genders, no cases, no formal/informal split, no singular/plural split. Also it's widely available to practice and get value.

As a native Spanish speaker born in the US, I think Spanish is a lot easier to learn than English.