I don't understand Esperanto, it's not important.

Rofl, anonym. In that order, huh? :P

Koala, you're proving your stubbornness by continuing to call Gaelic "Scottish". I won't argue with you if you continue to do that further.

And no, definitely not 200-300 years ago. Back when it was actually called Alba (in like 1000 AD) maybe, but not anything past 1200.

+Onoma, though don't see what's wrong with Esperanto being "artificial".

English has no subjunctive = simplest confirmed

Wrong PE, English also uses subjonctive, did you miss some of your English classes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_subjunctive

The way subjunctive is expressed in English is indeed easier, no doubt on that, but that's it, this is frankly the only thing we can concede as "easier" compared to Spanish.
English has a more inconsistent grammar (more irregular verbs than Spanish), inconsistent orthography and spelling (useless frills, blame the French for most of this :P) and a very inconsistent pronunciation (Spanish is pronounced as it is written, even French here is more consistent).
And subjunctive is frankly not that difficult, since Spanish grammar rules are regular, you are making something out of nothing.

If we were just defining the easiest language just by its conjugation system, then Chinese would be the easiest language (no conjugation of verbs, you basically just add a word or affix for past and future tenses and that's it), but does that mean Chinese is easy? Not at all, other factors have to be taken in count.

the subjunctive form of a verb often looks identical to the indicative form,

It's better than French to be sure

indeed better than french, but fortunately subjonctive in French is not used at all, you would find it mostly in literature, but not in common speech. So it is not that important.

Spanish has more regularity, but English has less builds.

Conjugation of most verbs in English:

Now:

I/you/we/they eat
It eats

Past:

I/you/we/they ate
It ate

And some helping verbs which are not too hard to understand.

Conjugation of verbs in Spanish:

Now:

Yo como
Tú comes
Vos comés
El come
Nosotros comemos
Vosotros coméis
Ellos comen

Was:

Yo comía
Tú comías
Vos comías
El comía
Nosotros comíamos
Vosotros comíais
Ellos comían

And there's seven more unique ways to conjugate verbs (not counting helping)!

While in English, I read up on this, subjunctive is by choice, and most don't even wield it.

Edited 5/24/2016 18:32:52

English is the best choice for a number of reasons the places that speak it are scattered throughout the world,it's the official language of business and diplomacy, and it's the most popular language if you count second languages