I won’t argue with you there, I’m not qualified to compare anything but russian and english (and maybe Ukrainian). I’ve heard others say the same thing you are

I won’t argue with you there, I’m not qualified to compare anything but russian and english (and maybe Ukrainian). I’ve heard others say the same thing you are and my research agrees with that assessment. A friend of mine is fluent in both Russian and Arabic and English and would agree that Arabic was harder. When living in Ukraine I knew a lot of people from the Middle East studying medicine in Kharkov and they mostly all learned Russian very well, I can’t say the same for my english speaking students learning russian in East Ukraine. I am biased so I personally think Russian is a fantastic language both to speak and read. In addition to the literature and people, russian seems to be the most common non-English language after chinese on the internet which lets me see some corners of the web I would not otherwise.