It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language.

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English is actually quite easy. Yes, there is a lot of vocabulary, but almost no conjugations or declinations make it easy compared to some others. My native has 19 different cases with 2-3 variants each for tonal coherence, and 2 modes of full verb conjugation (with additional exceptions of course).

What i found very difficult in english is the fact that there's no rule on how to pronounce words; you have to learn how to pronounce each word individually. which means that you might know how a word is written and what it means while not being able to recognize it when listening to someone speaking in english.

But come on 12 different grammatical tenses.

They are mostly logical, it's actually permutations of 3 by 4 conditions.