No, it is not. WHAAT? Mostly this is a myth perpetuated by native speakers for several reasons (sometimes it’s just a sugar-coated way to acknowledge you are trying hard to speak German, sometimes is, as I said, a myth which is quite beneficial for them)… and by Mark Twain, as someone here already said :-)
The problem with German is that the first 10 to 20 lessons will be very hard: many peculiar things you will have to either memorise or understand, and then get used to them. Also, most people will find it difficult to just try and speak immediately. The bright side of it is that you can cover all the necessary grammar in 20 lessons (you will only need to learn a few more things along the road, but nothing scary at all) and be done with it…which is definitely NOT the case for English or Italian (the latter being a steady challenge). Patience, getting used to it (=practising), and finding the right method for you: these are the keys to learning German! I googled and I found the right learning curve for German:
I also gave some good pieces of advice here: Felicita Ratti's answer to How do fluent German speakers learn German? (I hadn’t thought of googling “German learning curve” while writing that answer… :-) )
Feel free to ask for some more advice! Das schaffst du schon! (you are gonna make it!)
