> German has a difficult grammar I am not sure whether this can be objectively measured. All kids learn (at least) one language the natural way. I have the str

> German has a difficult grammar I am not sure whether this can be objectively measured. All kids learn (at least) one language the natural way. I have the strong feeling that related languages will always be easier for them. I speak English as a foreign language. I don't think articles in English are a challenge. It's the USA, but not the France. I can feel the cold or a cold and know the difference. I don't know many rules, it's mostly like I would use them in my mother tongue. I have many colleagues, whose mother tongue does not know articles at all. If they write a page of text, there are often a dozen of mistakes related to articles to correct. But it's not that I would just be smarter. I have spoken another foreign language daily for over 25 years. I speak fluently and can make myself fully understood. Still I make quite some mistakes all the time.