I always thought that if you spoke a gender enabled language (Spanish, Italian, French, German) it would be easy to learn verb conjugation. I worked for 5 months in German and spoke with Germans and other nationalities and discovered that this is not the case. Several, much to my surprise, said that English was easier then other languages spoken on the continent. If recently, decided that they all through tricks at you. I've only ever tried Spanish and German and I had different difficulties with both.

Cheers,
-D