English is the PHP of languages
It has its weirdnesses, but in the end it's easier to learn than other languages (and thankfully, unlike PHP, natural languages don't have issues with maintainability or addition of new features)
It has its weirdnesses, but in the end it's easier to learn than other languages (and thankfully, unlike PHP, natural languages don't have issues with maintainability or addition of new features)
It's one of those tests American takes to get into university.
EDIT: Actually I'm not so sure. Swedish has genders and most of time it's not based on anything. I'd call it a tie.
Do they decline depending on the case?
So, probably harder than English
In English you have to learn spelling and pronunciation separately. Which is lot more work than Swedish genders. The structure of the language is simpler. But there is more exceptions to every rule.
So tie before Hollywood effect.
The worse mismatch between pronunciation and writing I know is Gaeilge (Irish)
I just checked and it would have held true for 13/16 words in the above sentence. From spoken English into writing it is also true. It took me years to accept that the word "know" has k-letter in the beginning.
That is significantly worse than Swedish, if you guess the "en" gender, you are correct more than 50% of the time. And the language stays pretty much understandable with wrong genders. That might not be true with English.
My native Finnish is more structurally complex than either of those. But I think it has fewer exceptions. Terribly hard to tell when it's bit too fluent.