> English is a germanic language and hence a synthetic language This is nonsense. Morphological strategy is not a strictly genetic trait. This is like saying "

> English is a germanic language and hence a synthetic language This is nonsense. Morphological strategy is not a strictly genetic trait. This is like saying "your name is Baker so you can't be a barista". Every other Germanic language is far more synthetic than English, and English is the most analytic language in the Indo-European family. > and their writing system is notoriously difficult. Writing is not language. One is an invention, the other is a natural phenomenon. > In other words "simple is easier to learn"? No, simple morphology makes a language easier to learn for adults. Complexity can come in many forms. Mandarin is easy to learn for the same reason that English is easy to learn: the bulk of the linguistic complexity is in the vocabulary, which is easy for adults to learn, not the morphology, which is easy for kids but hard for adults.