English is, in fact, one of the more difficult languages to learn because of its many exceptions, quirks, and idioms. It is also one of the richest languages, with well over 600,000 recognized words - several times the number in other common languages. We have a range of words that describe very fine shades of meaning. For example: mad, angry, annoyed, piqued, furious, irate, cross, vexed, hostile, indignant, infuriated, incensed, raging, fuming, seething, livid, irked - plus idioms like hot under the collar and many more. All shades of meaning for one emotion - and in English we can select the one word of all those that portrays the exact level of anger we mean.
I'm monolingual. Not because I don't think other languages are good, but because I still haven't really REALLY learned this one yet. Give me another 70 years and I might get close.
