No. It's probably the most frustrating syntax I've had the (dis)pleasure of working with.

Anything remotely complex is weird and unintuitive. I've had the displeasure of writing AppleScript as both a novice and intermediate scripter/programmer. The latter is much more frustrating because instead of just the "natural language"(for lack of a better term) falling apart you are now very much aware of what it's lacking.

It's been a little while since I last wrote any AppleScript but while I didn't find it completely horrendous to write, it was certainly harder to write than most scripting languages because there is a lot to remember about how a script can and can't be structured.

You can now write in Javascript instead of Applescript (https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/La...). For examples of Applescript equivalent code in Javascript, see https://github.com/dtinth/JXA-Cookbook. Yes, Applescript looks horrible, but it was originally designed for non-programmers, so it had very verbose English-like syntax.

My experience has been that it's pretty frustrating after a few minutes. It's a dead language with very few references available online. Apple recently added support for using JavaScript wherever you'd use AppleScript, and it wouldn't surprise me if they end up killing it off completely in a few years.

Unfortunately if you know English, the doors to truly learning AppleScript are forever closed to you.