>>4597831Well, if you ignore the mountain of exemptions to rules. English spelling and pronunciation can get pretty complicated, even if it has a high information to syllable ratio and relatively regular grammar.
>>4597903Esperanto is not very neutral at all, actually. Very heavily biased to the romance languages.
And yeah English speakers have an awful time learning other languages. We have way fewer resources than other people for God knows what reason. At least Spanish is easy to pick up.