> English is a germanic language and hence a synthetic language
This is nonsense. Morphological strategy is not a strictly genetic trait. This is like saying "your name is Baker so you can't be a barista". Every other Germanic language is far more synthetic than English, and English is the most analytic language in the Indo-European family.
> and their writing system is notoriously difficult.
Writing is not language. One is an invention, the other is a natural phenomenon.
> In other words "simple is easier to learn"?
No, simple morphology makes a language easier to learn for adults. Complexity can come in many forms.
Mandarin is easy to learn for the same reason that English is easy to learn: the bulk of the linguistic complexity is in the vocabulary, which is easy for adults to learn, not the morphology, which is easy for kids but hard for adults.
This is nonsense. Morphological strategy is not a strictly genetic trait. This is like saying "your name is Baker so you can't be a barista". Every other Germanic language is far more synthetic than English, and English is the most analytic language in the Indo-European family.
> and their writing system is notoriously difficult.
Writing is not language. One is an invention, the other is a natural phenomenon.
> In other words "simple is easier to learn"?
No, simple morphology makes a language easier to learn for adults. Complexity can come in many forms.
Mandarin is easy to learn for the same reason that English is easy to learn: the bulk of the linguistic complexity is in the vocabulary, which is easy for adults to learn, not the morphology, which is easy for kids but hard for adults.