One advantage that English certainly has is a very rigid, predictable sentence structure. I come from Russian - a language where words can be rearranged in many

One advantage that English certainly has is a very rigid, predictable sentence structure. I come from Russian - a language where words can be rearranged in many possible orders while being not only grammatically correct but also stylistically valid (also with slightly different accents and meaning). The fact that putting words in different order is just a mistake (and not originality) was completely alien to me, but now I enjoy it a lot, because it makes the language so much easier. And prononcuation of English is, of course, a special hell - but one that you very quickly get over with, once you start systematically watch movies and tv series with subtitles instead of dubs. And what other language has as much movies, tv series, music and videogames other than English, through the whole 20th century and up to this point?