2006-08-07 18:30:09 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Studying Abroad
The one(s) you speak when growing up. It's always easiest because you have a head start in that language.
2006-08-07 18:33:32 · answer #1 · answered by Muralasa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As someone who speaks five languages, and teaches two, I would say that coming from English as a mother tongue, Dutch and Italian are going to be the easiest to learn. There's a table of various language groups, which divides them into various levels of difficulty. Dutch and Italian are in 1, English I believe is in the second or third group, out of four.
Edit: By the way, Spanish is in the second or third group, it's nowhere near the easiest languages to learn. That's a common misconception.
To the person who said I didn't consider those, I'd be happy to give you the groups in which those are found as well, but they are not group 1 languages, and that after all is what the asker wanted to know! Some more info here: http://psyling.psy.cmu.edu/papers/CM-L2/langspecific.pdf
2006-08-07 18:39:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who said English must be kidding me. The rules of the English language are not uniform at all and have many exceptions, you only assume that english is easier to learn becuase you already know it. Naturally your mother tongue will be the easiest to learn followed by languages that you learn earlier in life. As for learning a language now, it's all subjective to your own personal taste. To me, I think Spanish is while not easy, a good language to learn.
2006-08-07 18:36:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, The hardest language to learn is english. It's Proven. I have heard that spanish was the easiest.
2006-08-07 18:38:03 · answer #4 · answered by aluminouslife 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spanish
2006-08-07 18:33:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha i discover that Spanish is the toughest. N i are living in SD, CA all my lifestyles round a various organization of humans in which Mexico is like 40min away. haha But i discover A.S.L. (American Sign Language) to be VERY convenient! however alternatively I'm extra of a visible learner. ^_^
2016-08-28 11:01:32 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To each his own...
The person who said Dutch and Italian obviously did not consider Mandarin, Cantonese, Zulu, Marathi, Lebanese, Konkani, Russian, Thai, Bengali, Sinhalese etc... How sad!
2006-08-07 19:05:07 · answer #7 · answered by Wrobinhood 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
english, I learned when I was 8 , my daughter learned in 6 months when she was 6
2006-08-07 18:42:04 · answer #8 · answered by Shaki_smile 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English, and I think it should be the only one used in the United States.
2006-08-07 18:32:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd say the english language!
2006-08-07 18:32:41 · answer #10 · answered by loudy_foudy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋