It’s much easier if you speak a Latin based language already, like French, Italian or Portugais (sorry, I forget how to say the last one in English).

I would say it’s easy to begin learning, but difficult to perfect. As the answerer above mentioned, conjugations and other grammatical things are very difficult for learners of Spanish. I’ll focus on what about it is easy, though. For an English speaker, it’s easy because it’s a very phonetical language (words are pronounced how they’re spelt). Another advantage is that it is closely related to English in so many ways. English may not be a Romance language, but its words are often derived from Latin. If one notices the roots of words and their meanings, it becomes a lot easier to learn Spanish. Also, Spanish-speaking countries and English-speaking countries have become very interdependent upon one another, often borrowing each other’s words (i.e. internet, closet, siesta).

I know a lot of persons from other countries (Japan, USA, France) and they can say everything about spanish, except that it is an easy language to learn.

The verbs conjugations are a lot different according to the tense and the pronouns, the use of adjectives and adverbs has a lot of rules, too.

Just because you speak to a Mexican (or another native spanish speaker) and he can understand you, it doesn’t mean that you speak good spanish.

When an American tourist come here, maybe he will be able to communicate in spanish, but thats becouse we understand that he won’t know all the conjugations forms of a verb, and most of the times he will use the infinitive form of it.

Speak proper Spanish is completely different.

SPANISH IS NOT EASY…. or at least it depends on who you ask. Me, being my first language Spanish, had trouble learning english because the pronunciation was to tough for me to understand especially since my type of spanish was rural because i lived deep into the villages in Mexico where everyone kind of created their own version of how spanish should be. Every spanish speaking country has its own way of manipulating words into shorter ways of pronouncing them making it tougher to know the “real” spanish. I , growing up had to suffer trough ESL classes to get rid of what my english speaking teachers said was my harsh spanish “accent.” Eventhough I eventually got the hang of it and perfected it where I could talk and write it unfallibly, I noticed as my kids grew older that they had trouble speaking spanish where now they had grown up in the american society had installed the value of english in my kids. Their black, asian, and white friends could not understand why my kids would talk spanish to me when i could perfectly talk english. I held true to my value, knowing that my kids would have it better if they were bilingual. But to answer your question, spanish is hard to learn for people who are not familiar with Romance languages(latin,french, italian, etc.) which are closely associated to spanish. English is different having different origins(german, russian, old english,etc.) where the tongue has a tough time rolling as spanish often uses. Spanish is softer to learn compared to german or chinese that require familiarity in that department(not saying it has to but it will help) Well, hope that answered your question.

I took Spanish in high school and I had a hard time.

Spanish is easier because there aren’t words that mean two things like in English. Such as saw(I saw the softball) and saw(I need a saw to cut the log.). Then there are things like to, too, and two.

Because it is such a common language in USA, people are surrounded with it all their lives, so when you go to study, you are already familiar with pronunciation.

I think that it helps that spanish is pronounced pretty much the same way as it is spelled.
And like with other romance languages, the rules of grammer and tenses and structure and pronunciation don’t change.

the reason is because spanish is above 95 percent phonic.
most letter only have one sound
unlike english.

It’s because the root words are so much like English, and it’s a Latin-based language. Also the rules are so easy, not complicated at all.