My nephew is 6 years old, and he's been learning Spanish in his classes. Wifey says that he is better at Spanish than she is, even though she did like 5 years of Spanish in school.
Yeah I hear that its subtle things like that which make English a baby to learn how to speak. Learning to read/ write it is a lot easier.I'm pretty glad I'm a native English speaker. Don't even have to think about most of these things.
The big thing that my step mum complains about is the different pronunciations of the same chains of letters. Like why does adding an s in front of laughter make it sound like slaughter?