English is terribly confusing to a lot of non-native speakers but how hard is it really? Is the world's most difficult language to learn? For example, guess how "
Ghoti" is pronounced? The Economist
weighs in and comes up none the wiser:
That doesn’t settle a bar bet along the lines of “Is English hard to learn?” But any topic worthy of a good long argument—"Who's the greatest boxer of all time?" "'Dark Side of the Moon' or 'The Wall'?"—should have that element of taste and subjectivity to keep it fun.