>>935856070That's because English has Latin and Germanic roots. So we have words like 'Roundabout' (Germanic) and 'Circuitous' (Latin) for the same thing. If you have a high verbal intelligence your vocabulary will have a word from each branch. Body/Corpus, Eat/Consume, Sleep/Dormitory etc.
Also, Spanish has five vowels while English has between 14 and 21 depending on which linguist you ask. English speakers can use a subset of what they already have while Spanish speakers have to learn brand new ones.
>>935856208Spanish is widely considered the easiest language a native of English could try.
>>935852990 (OP)Why do you want to learn? It takes several thousand hours of concerted effort to reach C1 and when you do nobody is impressed. Neither women nor employers give a single solitary fuck. I spent my teenage years studying Spanish and German the way autists study trains. Every adult in my life told me I was going to make big bucks and have a prestigious career. I don't know why people believe things like that but they do. What I ended up getting was a telemarketer job in downtown Philly making exactly as much as my monolingual coworkers, $14/hr. I used to hear the most naive advice imaginable. "Why though? Why don't you go work for the UN as a translator?"