2006-07-13 22:39:56 · 17 answers · asked by hanifsia 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
English.
2006-07-13 22:43:55 · answer #1 · answered by god0fgod 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As for easiest, it depends on which language(s) you already know. I'm going to assume you know English already. If you do know English, the easiest languages would probably be something like Dutch (because it is a West Germanic language like English) or Esperanto (because it is an atrificial language designed to be easy). However, the useufulness of these languages is questionable. Dutch is spoken by about 22 million people, but only in a relatively small geographic area (very few outside of the Netherlands and Belgium where it is an official language) and most Dutch speakers would probably know English as well. Esperanto, even though it was designed to be easy to learn, is only spoken by about a million people worldwide and it isn't the official language anywhere. However, there are studies which show that learning Esperanto as your first foreign language will help in acquiring additional foreign languages later.
As for usefulness, it really depends where you want to go and what you want to do. Just looking at the numbers, Mandarin Chinese would be the most useful as it is spoken by over a billion people. Most of them are in China and South East Asia, though, so it isn't really a global language. Spanish is the third most spoken language in the world after Chinese and Hindi, but is closer related to English than either of these and should therefore be a bit easier to learn. It is spoken mainly in Spain and the Americas, so if you're a resident of the US or the UK, that might make it more useful than Chinese and Hindi as well. The only global languages (in the sense that they're spoken natively at least somewhere on all the continents) are English and French, so they might also be worth looking into.
2006-07-14 06:09:05 · answer #2 · answered by anymunym 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English
2006-07-14 05:42:56 · answer #3 · answered by leadbelly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the most useful language to learn is English because as a language, it has the most educational material to choose than any other language and it is also the most widely used in the world.
2006-07-14 05:44:20 · answer #4 · answered by ProdigyCreator 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English.
2006-07-14 05:42:35 · answer #5 · answered by jocular_japes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
english is the most useful language to learn, but second is probably spanish it is quite easy and is very useful as spanish people are everywhere.
2006-07-14 05:43:33 · answer #6 · answered by jame_football 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the easiest language to learn is easily italian or spanish quite usefull in america but french is not very usefull but quite usefull
orevoire i think that how u spell it lol
2006-07-14 05:46:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont know how easy it would be to learn, but I would say Spanish as it is spoken all over the world. parts of USA, Mexico, Cuba, Domincan Republic, Argentina, Chile, Colomiba etc etc etc
2006-07-14 05:45:36 · answer #8 · answered by OriginalBubble 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since you already speak English: Spanish.
2006-07-14 05:43:18 · answer #9 · answered by fiend_indeed 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English. If not go for something like SPanish
2006-07-14 05:43:28 · answer #10 · answered by wacky_katie2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋