Some are easier than others

At the moment, I'm struggling to learn Czech.  I know how to say please and thank you.  I'd even be able to order beer in a restaurant if I wanted to.  The language blends consonants together in weird ways: p gets run together with k, m with l.  Some sounds are best described as throat-based sneezing. In addition to prepositions, there are weird little endings on nouns called inflections which give information on how words are used.  However, this language is easier to learn than Chinese.

English and Czech are related, though they're only third or fourth cousins.  Both are thought to be descended from an Indo-European language in use around 3700 B.C. Today, 3 billion people speak Indo-European languages, making it the largest language group of any on earth. Because English and Czech are related, there are words and word roots in common. Chinese and English have none to speak of, and Chinese does not have an alphabet. Czech does, though it's pretty different from ours (see below).