I'd say that English is easier to learn than most languages (precisely because of that ubiquity), but harder to master. The analogy to PHP holds: PHP is everywh

I'd say that English is easier to learn than most languages (precisely because of that ubiquity), but harder to master. The analogy to PHP holds: PHP is everywhere (a lot of websites run on it), learning material is easy to come by, and it's widely understood (most commodity web servers will just take your .php files and run them without any trouble on your part), but it will take years until you stop tripping over its quirks.