I would not envy someone learning it as a second language.
The problem is that you have to learn English, because it’s the most spoken language in the world, and also because everything internationally is done using the English language. If you have to travel for work in a country where the inhabitants speak a language that you don’t speak, then the only alternative you have to make yourself understood is by speaking English. Furthermore, even if you work in your own country you have to learn English, because if tourists come you have to know how to interact with them. So much so that here, in Italy, learning English is almost mandatory in order to have a job. So yes, I wish I didn’t have to learn English, but unfortunately I have to…