is there something that makes a language objectively harder/easier to learn?

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As a native English speaker, I hear things like “this” language is hard/easy to learn. Does this mean it is only hard/easy to learn coming from an English background, or would someone who speaks Spanish also find it similarly harder/easier to learn as well?

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Some languages are similar to others and have evolved to be their own language. It’s like if you go to Scotland or Ireland and you enter a group of people talking very fast. You’d understand most of it but still you’d have some trouble.
Spanish and Portuguese is sort of this way but many years into the future. Different words and grammar are different and those have evolved over time to be their own language with its own rules.
. Similar with Italian. Italian is a little more different . They all came from the same main language and eventually evolved.
So it would be sort of easy for a Brazilian to learn Spanish and a little more difficult to learn Italian, but way way more difficult to learn German or Russian.
And Japanese and Asian languages are way way different so that’s more tough.

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