2006-07-11 18:47:19 · 12 answers · asked by esha26 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
1. If your native language is English, then those languages that are closest to English would be easiest to learn (e.g. Frisian, Dutch, German). Since English was greatly influenced by French after the Normal Conquest of 1066, we have a lot of French-based words in English, which makes learning French and other Romance languages fairly easy to learn (e.g. Spanish, Italian, Portuguese). Of course, because we have sizeable minorities in the U.S. who speak, say, Spanish or German or French, those three languages are good to learn because you can practice a lot more than if you were to study languages that you could not practice a lot with.
2006-07-11 18:54:25 · answer #1 · answered by Language expert 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say spanish is the easiest language to learn. Asian languages would be some of the hardest to learn. Some of them are sing songy, for lack of a better word.
2006-07-11 18:52:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on who you ask. English is generally considered the easiest, because it does not have the complexity of verb subject agreement that other languages do. It does not have the tones of many languages, nor complicated characters.
If you already have English down, you're screwed because all the others are harder.
Spanish is next, I'd say.
2006-07-11 18:55:17 · answer #3 · answered by cheeser 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spanish
2006-07-11 23:00:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Indonesian language is the easiest to learn
2006-07-11 22:28:17 · answer #5 · answered by cloud 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello,
If you are from an English speaker country i would rank the following
1.Spanish
2.French
3.Italian
4.German
If you are a oriental speaker you might tink different since english uses more words than some of the hardest languages like Chinese......
From an Oriental perspective English is the hardest.....
2006-07-11 22:04:19 · answer #6 · answered by kida_w 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English, man, english. Well, for who english language is foreign language, at less. in the latin languages you can find 60 diferent forms to say just one verb, and 120 to say the verb 'to be', in spanish and portuguese languages.
2006-07-16 10:42:10 · answer #7 · answered by João 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that French, German and Spanish have always been consider easy to learn and then there is Italian, Swahili and Japanese.
2006-07-11 19:25:27 · answer #8 · answered by Willie S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends, English is rather easy to learn, but i found out that Italian and Spanish are also quite easy....
2006-07-11 18:56:47 · answer #9 · answered by gracie644 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I took intro to spanish in college and thought it was pretty easy.
French is hard, german is easy in the begining but gets a lot harder later.
Stick with spanish.
2006-07-11 18:51:05 · answer #10 · answered by David B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋