I don't agree. English native speakers are a people that find difficult to learn any language, except their own. May be it is a consequence of the English grammar simplicity!

If you read NUMBERS in the middle of a foreign language text, how do you say them? I tend to read them in my first language instead of the text's language!

@jlawler: If it came to Portuguese it would be: eu i, tu iste, ele iu, nós imos, vós istes, eles iram. And it is exactly equal to the perfect preterit for the regular verbs of the 3rd conjugation (ex: eu parti, tu partiste, ele partiu, nós partimos, vós partistes, eles partiram). It is a pity it has not survived in this form; it would be much more regular and distinct from the ser verb's perfect past tense.

The link is dead :(

@Cerberus: Yoou asked why the infinitive. Not why the "que".

In French it is the same: Carthage a besoin d'être detruite / Carthage doit être détruite

Note: 'Mover' is pronounced 'muver' and its singular first person 'movo' is pronounced 'movo'

Portuguese: direita (fem. inflexion of direito) - Direito ; Spanish: derecha (fem. inflexion of derecho) - Derecho

English has not complicated tenses (3 tenses) and verb conjugation flexes very little inside each tense — compare with latin languages ... I can speak fluently Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, English ... I know what I am talking about.

@dainichi: there are at least 2 phonemes in French— just the ones I am recalling right now — non-existent in English: 'é' ("café"); 'gn' ("peigner")

@Joe: both of them.