Have you ever barely passed a(n) paper, class, or objective? Me: I just barely passed an english paper in one of my two english classes (11A and 12A), I passed the 12A paper with a 68. I'm in 11th grade, :P. I'm soooo sad.
Meh, it's debatable. The general reason why Japanese is so easy is because what you pronounce is what you also write down. The same cannot be said for English, which is why it's harder. However, while English only has 26 letters to memorize, Japanese has characters and syllables to memorize, not to mention 4 sets of characters with the same syllable sounds to boot. That's the 90% of total hardness in that language lol
So why isn't Spanish declared easier than that? What is said is almost exactly what is written down, and they have a much less complicated alphabet.