Genuinely curious about your last point (don't know much about the topic). Is english intrinsically better at this, or is it because of the presence of jargon? Is it a studied phenomena, or is it something most people feel?
It also has a very simple grammar compared to most languages. Take this sentence:
"I would like not to go to school today"
The french equivalent would be:
"Je voudrais ne pas aller à l'école aujourd'hui."
"would like" is a simple combination of two words, but in french you need to know the precise conjugation of it.
"not" is actually expressed as 2 words with "ne pas", which can be positioned in several ways.
Infinitive, like with "to go", is simple in english: just add "to". In french, each verb is different, like "aller".
Then you got "the" in any circumstances in english, but the "l'", could also be "le, la, or les" depending of the word after it. A;so remember that each word is either feminine or masculine in french, even a stone or the sun.
Then "à" and "école" got an accent. French has many of them, you need to know the right one, where to place it, how to pronunciation it and type it on the keyboard.
Finally, "today" vs "aujourd'hui". I know which one is easier to type in a bug report.
Not to say English doesn't have weird traps, but it's very, very relaxing compared to the rest. And much more efficient.
Also describing a view of the country side with it feels a bit limiting. But I'm not Shakespear :)
Regarding "aujourd'hui", this monstrosity litterally means : "to the day of today"..
Our dear language needs a reform, lest it will survive only as a roman dialect.
오늘 학교에 가기 싫다 (I don’t want to go to school today)
Hangeul is a syllabary so anyone can read it, just like Latin. It was specifically designed in response to peasants not being able to read Chinese hanzi.
Things like the subject and topic can be and is omitted when it’s superfluous. (The above sentence omits the subject and subject particle. There is no topic here). English almost always needs to specify the subject, asides from very casual speech/slang. Korean, like english, doesn’t need to specify gender of nouns, and it also doesn’t need “a” or “the” markers. The location particle above could be dropped too.
However Korean does have complex honorifics and formality conjugations, which typically get longer the more formal/polite it is. Above we have the plain or dictionary form, which is usually the shortest form as well.
"I don’t want to go" and "I would like not to go" express different things.
One is expressing opposition right now, the other one is expressing desire or even a request, potentially while the action is already engaged. The first one is definitive, the second one is wishful thinking or negotiation.
I don’t think there’s a 1:1 translation of “would like not to”. I’d probably say something like “it’d be good if I did / didn’t do X”. Which is less direct than the equivalent “I do / don’t want to do X”.
English isn't inherently better as a world's language than anything else, it's just there, so it benefits from the network effect (it's more beneficial to learn language that has the most users, so it gets even more users).
Off the top of my head, I believe we factor in 15% more text space for Spanish. German is something like 60% more.
(FWIW, this also happens when swapping from ideographic languages to English - western localizations of Japanese video games often end up with very small text as a result.)
My first language is Portuguese, and English was not so hard for me to learn. I studied a bit of French and it was ok, but not as easy as English. And this considering it should be a bit easier since Portuguese is my main language.
Now I'm studying German and... it's way harder than English and French. At least, way more verbose and which more complex grammar rules and conjugations.