What's the hardest and easiest language one can learn in adult stage or nearly adult stage?
2006-06-11 03:39:48 · 27 answers · asked by Lilium Gustavia 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Well, of course it depends what languages you already speak. If English is your native language and you have not yet studied any other languages, then the easiest ones to learn will be ones that are most closely related to English: German, Swedish, or other Germanic languages; or Spanish, French, or other Romance languages. After that, anything else in the Indo-European language group will be easier than anything outside of it. Different writing systems have wildly varying degrees of difficulty for someone who can read and write English: Greek and Russian are pretty easy to learn, Arabic will be harder, Chinese will be quite difficult.
2006-06-11 03:59:58 · answer #1 · answered by Kat 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It really depends on the person. The Defense Language Institute in Monterrey CA has a test to figure out what language (if any) a person can learn.
Typically a language that is in the same linguist group as your native/dominant language is the easiest. The hardest would be the one that has the most vocal, grammatical and structural differences.
I am trying to teach myself Japanese and the verbal is going quite well. The written language is another story. I had no trouble with English (my second but dominant language) or Italian.
2006-06-11 08:58:56 · answer #2 · answered by hhabilis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No language is hard for an adult. Every language becomes easy to learn for a matured mind in the stage.
2006-06-11 03:43:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
English is my native language and I am fluent in Spanish. I also speak some French, and Greek and understand Italian and Portugese although I do not speak them. I am currently learning Biblical Hebrew and Russian. For me Hebrew is the most challenging. I learned Spanish on my own and could communicate well in 3 months and was translating in the Calif. court system within a year. For me that was the easiest language.
2006-06-17 23:24:30 · answer #4 · answered by MiCielo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easiest... Bahasa Melayu : The Malay language is of Austronesian stock, spoken mainly in the Malay Archipelago of Southeast Asia. The language achieved the status of lingua franca in the region during the height of the Malaccan Sultanate in the 15th and 16th century. Lately, it is receiving attention from the international community due to its importance with at least 260 million speakers. Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Timor Laste, South Thailand, South Phillipines, Chrismas Island; Australia use Bahasa Melayu. Bahasa Melayu so easy coz you use end of tongue to pronounce it
Hardest... maybe mandarin
2006-06-12 03:56:44 · answer #5 · answered by lazuardi.sepi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, the past answers are not totally correct if you want to learn the basics of Spanish then it is very easy, but if you want to learn Spanish completely then that is very hard. Some people even say that Spanish is even more diffiicult thatn Chinese and not many people speak spanish perfectly, because the verbs in spanish have so many tenses that you have to know how to use.
the easiest language or dialect you can learn is the language they speak in Bali since it has no past, present or future tense.
good luck.
2006-06-11 22:56:31 · answer #6 · answered by john 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love finding out new languages and utilizing them with natives, i journey plenty and i have found out kinda many, english, norwegian, swedish (they're virtually equal, and as i talk norwegian i recognize additionally danish), french, spanish the ones are those i have studied. I'm local finnish speaker so that is no longer predicament to me. I could like to study extra languages! I ain't no tuition learner i study via movement, first-class method is to transport to nation and reside with locals and study language and paintings there. Write whatever? What you wish? I have Mercury Capricorn in sixth condo. Other method i am emerging Leo. Wow Michael R, are you aware Finnish!! So cool anyone learns it!
2016-09-08 23:38:22 · answer #7 · answered by malboeuf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I tried to learn Arabic once... until I finally decided you had to learn it from childhood. I also tried to learn Tewa and Towa... languages of the Pueblo people in New Mexico... and that was even harder than Arabic.
The easiest language I ever learned (I speak 8 languages) was Creole.
2006-06-18 03:40:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
easiest- Spanish (after English)
hardest- Hebrew
i know(fluently)- English, Spanish, Hebrew, Persian, and some Russian
wanna be linguist!
2006-06-11 05:12:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like Dave said, languages more closely to English, Indo European Languages are easier to learn. Russian, Arabic, Viet Namese...are very hard languages.
2006-06-11 09:29:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋