I'm Chinese. Just imagine the transfer between phonetic and character-based......

I also speak a bit of French, Spanish, and German. English, with no genders for words, is unbelievably simple. Of course, we have to balance that out with absurd pronounciation.
i speak some mandarin thanks to my family and uh....... yeah it is a very different transition.

i also know a pretty solid amount of russian thanks to family as well but i can't evenn imagine being fluent.

english is a hard language and i have trouble with our own grammar let alone russian and mandarin grammar. ugh