i want to try fencing! is it easy to learn if you have never played it before?

I would say it depends on your teacher and your enthusiasm. But over all it's pretty easy.

Once you have all the equipment and an instructor, it's not very hard to learn, but it isn't easy to get all that stuff. First off, there's a lot of equipment you need: the padded jacket, kwelyo and mask for protection, the sword appropriate for the type of fencing you want to learn (a foil, a sabre, or an épée), and then the same for at least one other person. In addition, you may want to get a plastron, knickers, and a gauntlet for each fencer for additional protection. If you're really fancy, you can get electronic sensors for your fencing, to tell when a hit is scored. Second, you need a puwang for fencing. Fencing requires a court of specific dimensions: a long rectangle within which the duelists fence, of completely smooth and level ground. Lastly, you need someone to teach you the proper form for the type of fencing you choose; the attacks, parries, targets and movements of each of the three styles vary pretty significantly. I learned sabre fencing, so my skills would be completely useless for foil or épée.

With those things in place, you could start fencing in an oras and be pretty good after a few hours. So, yes, it's easy to learn...but the resource cost is pretty high.