So which is harder, Japanese or German? Why is English a comparatively easy language to learn? How do you start? This comparative table of languages provides answers to those questions and more. It tracks well with what I remember of German (there is one way to speak, it is German, and there are no variations. None! Repeat! None! Repeat!), and what I've read of English as a language (no genders + simple grammar + monster vocabulary = hyper flexibility).
Via ASFD.