Hello folks,
thanks for the contributions enriching my collection of linguistic fun. But now in earnest:
English is a very easy language to learn,because it changed to an almost synthetc language, i.e. it lost a lot of morphology and the parts of speech are rigidly defined through their position in the sentence.
It has no gender; every verb has only 4 forms (learn, learns, learning, learned) or 5 ones with the irregular verbs (see, sees, seeing, saw, seen), but the number of irregular words is very small compared to German. Here you could say: The irregular is the rule.
There are different levels of speech as in every language; in English they are easy to discern by the use of four letter words or polysyllables.
In the barracks you could hear: "Who is this f**ing guy who can't handle his rifle?"; more politely you could say: "Would you be so kind, please, to introduce me to this cohabitating gentleman who seems to have difficulties in the employment of his rifle?"
If you think the orthography difficult, look at German - it is pretty awful. Don't expect logic in languages, it is all development (and history, especially your orthography).
Be glad to have such an easy language; it can't be so bad - even Shakespeare liked it so much that he decided to use it for his plays.

Wilfried