General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

How many languages are logical?
Although, as you rightly stated, "The English language has largely abandoned...", there is so much to try and grasp when learning the language as a foreign language. So much that we take for granted.
For me, one of the peculiarities is, in spoken terms, a double vowel being shorter than the single vowel.
There is also our use of the word "the", which we naturally use correctly. Also, the preposition "to" and other prepositions.
Additionally, how we spell words and "pronounce" words. The "pronunciation" and spelling are different to the verb form.
For example, consider these words: advertise/advertisement, photograph/photographer, cup, board, cupboard, child/children, woman/women, rough, borough, reserve/reservation, hear/heard, bear/beard...
The list is long.