Being dutch german is a piece a cake, only real difference is that german uses a grammatical system with four cases that's ran quite obsolete in the netherlands, (we only have two but they aren't even really grammatically related anymore). English is even easier at that without such cases, but their verb system again is a lot more complicated. Same goes for french, but that's a bit of a blend as their case system is just as easy to dutch, and the verb system is as elaborate as english.
Also english is pretty much everywhere and german is a sister language, so it's easy to say french. You see that it is so heritage related that the TS question virtually has no global answer. A british person for example, of the four languages I used, it will probably be the most easy to learn french as it's the closest to the own 'tracks' of language.
Edited by Aftershock, 05 September 2008 - 17:37.