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Speaking is something that comes across as an effortless process, almost working by itself. Our brain, however, has a lot of work to do when we construct a sentence. In addition, languages differ in myriad ways and this also means that there are differences in how we plan what we want to say in different languages, says Balthasar Bickel, senior author of the study and a professor at the University of Zurich.
And if some languages seem easier, it is because they make fewer distinctions in their grammar. While English always uses the (e.g., in The tree is tall and Snow covers the tree ), German makes a distinction between der (subject) and den (object) (e.g., in Der Baum ist groß and Schnee bedeckt den Baum ).