Redfrog
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Yeah, this langages are very far away from indo-european langages. It’s not only the alphabet but the words origins and sonorities. Chinese, corean, vietnamian, Japanese people cannot hear and prononce a lot of our sounds, as we can’t theirs.It's the same in reverse as well, korean, japanese and chinese struggle learning a language (other than english) that use the latin alphabet.
Japanese themselves struggle with english, it's even harder when they try to learn another language that use a latin alphabet like spanish or italian, 10 times worse at least.
The only european language that it's relatively easy to learn for everybody is english, because it's simpler and has way less grammatic rules than swedish,hungarian,spanish,polish,french,german,etc
Many pick up english, over any other language, not only because is more useful, but also because it's way easier from a non-european perspective.
About english, you are probably right and that’s precisely why there is and was a cultural domination around the word (as well as there was the Great British empire) . It’s just so much easier.