As an English speaker, what do you think is the easiest foreign language to learn?

Answer 1

Spanish. The pronunciation is completely consistent. If a letter or syllable is pronounce one way in a particular word, it is pronounced the same way in all other words. The gender of a word is generally indicated by the word ending. If a word ends in 'a', its feminine, otherwise masculine. If you live in the USA, there are lots of spanish speakers to practice with. It is a useful language because its spoken throughout latin america and spain. Lots of English words of latin origin (usually the posh words or technical terms) are almost identical in Spanish and can be derived by rules about how to convert from English to Spanish. For example, words ending in 'tion' in English, generally end in 'cion' in Spanish (Information = Informacion). There are lots of spanish-speakers you can practice by chatting with via language learning websites.

Answer 2

All the germanic languages are easiest to learn for english speakers, as its the closest to english.
But personally speaking, I found african languages, easiest. Living in the country of the language, makes learning easier. As you can hear it being used and people will be happy to correct you. I can always tell if someone has learnt english and not lived in an english speaking country. And I'm almost positive vice versa works too!

Answer 3

Being an English speaker I think is kind of a drawback at learning foreign languages. You guys don´t have any mean of gender in your words, it´s all just "the", totally different than French or German or Greek for example. It would be kind of hard to learn all the different genders for different languages. I think Spanish or Italian would be good languages to start with, they´re relative simple and give a good basis to other languages if you want to go forth......

Answer 4

Sign Language

Answer 5

American......ahahah I'm kidding......I think that English is the easiest language in the world so every other language is more difficult. Try to learn French, Spanish or Italian, they are very difficult languages with a very hard grammar, but they are more useful than others and they use your same alphabet.

Answer 6

Spanish is meant to be the easiest language in the world to learn if you are English Speaking!

Answer 7

German closely mimics our language structure (our language is Germanic after all) but confuses the matter with ridiculously long words. French is pretty easy to get a grip on once you sort out the tenses (STAMP as we were taught at school - sortir, tomber, allez, montir, partir - it's been a while and I'm now a bit flaky) and the masculine/feminine bit.

Good luck!

Answer 8

I always thought French, it was easy in school. Now that many Latios are near where I live, I find Spanish is easy because I can hear it in conversation, and learn entire phrases.

Like last week I learned "mejor que nunca" (sorry, don't know spelling) means better than never, not better late than never, but better than never before. I heard two kids talking about TV, and I learned a phrase. Neat!!

Answer 9

Spanish

Answer 10

I think french is easiest but thats only because it's the only language i've tried to learn!