Mandarin Chinese falls in that category too. Speaking is easy. Reading/writing the pictographs is a major undertaking. Arabic is fairly easy to read, but requires a different inflection when addressing male/female persons.
English is so easy..."We eat what we can and what we can't we can."
Depends on what you mean by "speaking." If you mean reading out loud something written in the language, then I agree with you. When I lived in Korea, once I got a grasp on the pronunciation of the characters I could read it out loud pretty well but if you mean conversation then it is NOT easy until you have a sufficient vocabulary and practice to do so.