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

Question

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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Answer 1

It definitely depends which language(s) you already know. As an example: French, Italian, Latin and Spanish (and quite a few others probably) have relatively similar words and grammar. Thus as I already knew quite some French, learning Italian was „easier“ for me.