>>19858088Have you studied foreign languages before?
Languages don't map 1:1 on each other. And as you increase distance between the places where the languages originate, you wind up with major differences in the underlying paradigms where you literally have to learn different ways of thinking.
Spain is a lot closer to England than Japan is. It shares an underlying Latin base to some extent (via the French influence on modern English). Learning a language like Chinese or Japanese as an English speaker is a lot harder than learning Spanish and English is likewise a lot harder for them to learn as well.