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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/I think that it is really hard to judge whether English is difficult or easy to learn. Like all the other languages it has its difficulties as well as easy parts. There are many important factors that decide upon our success with learning any foreign language. It depends on our natural abilities, age, purposes for learning and our motivation. I am also convinced that our native language has some influence on whether a given language is difficult or easy to learn for us. I know that a Spanish learner would say that Italian is easier to learn than English. A German learner could say that English is simpler than Spanish. It's understandable as English and German are closer as they are Germanic languages whereas both Spanish and Italian belong to the group of Romance languages.