I don’t know why we ended up talking about languages but I can tell you English is one of the simplest ones around, probably due to its very basic grammar. This is one of the reasons –not the most important though- for having become the current lingua franca. I can speak 4 languages and can more or less understand other 3, but English is certainly not the hardest –although it’s probably in the group of the other 3 :-P
I started learning Japanese some years ago and while I can’t tell I remember anything at all I seem to remember it wasn’t too complicated. Sadly enough, I haven’t got the time to start all over again, so I was expecting you to come out with some MTF translations one of these days, any chance of it?