English a hard language? Hah! Try chinese for a change, a word having different meanings? Try a meaning having different words in Spanish, difficult to pronounce? Have you tried to read French without messing up your Rs and Ls?

I won't even mentioned the convoluted mess that some german words are, and how difficult it is to write the other languages that don't use roman letters.

Weird point aside, yes you are right english is not the most spoken language in the world by a large margin.