@goatsarah @madelainetaylor @wihtlore I'm pondering Japanese now, for... reasons. Basically spelling is either perfectly phonetic (hiragana, katakana) or ideographic so the question makes no sense so I don't know why I'm pondering it at all!
I always thought the hardest thing about learning English would be its excessive reliance on idiom.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, an' all that