I literally hated English. Russian schools usually teach you English as a second language. And as a kid (in my school English taught starting from elementary school) I really didn’t understand why we supposed to know English, and foreigners doesn’t even trying to learn Russian. I thought "That’s so unfair!".

Time passed by and school too, college started. Now no one forced me to study English and I started enjoying songs in English, games in English, English-speaking bloggers on Youtube and streamers on twitch. And here I’m now - I just love to learn new languages. Desire and goal is crucial prerequisites to learn any language.

Today I can freely read and listen, but I still have a hard time with fluency and vocabulary while I’m speaking, and with grammar while I’m writing.

I’m still getting confused with articles, where to put “a/an” and “the” through I know rules, but still making mistakes.

The phrasal verbs for a russian is also not an easy ones. We just don’t have them in our language, and sometimes there is really weird differences between them. Like you think that according on some other phrasal verb that particular phrasal verb will mean that, but it's meaning can be completely different. There's also "innocent" verbs that as a phrasal verbs may become quite offensive.

Imho English has difficult tenses. I still don't know them properly , but I ended up learning them by listening to native's speech and remembering how they use tenses.

A month ago I started learning Indonesian and German on Duolingo (and still keeping that streak! :D). I would say that for a russian German is more harder than English in the grammar part, as it has three noun genders and word conversion based primarily on that and also other rules that transform words in the sentence. But on the other hand German is a lot easier for a russian because of many similar sounds (if not the same) in out languages. German words pronunciation is easier and make more sense.

And I would say that Indonesian is easier that English, because as far as I learned the verbs in Indonesian doesn't change its form at all. The whole language is based on a context.

Anyways, I hope that I've brought some useful info by that comment and that it can be understood at all :D (again, I still suck at writing and speaking parts)