2006-08-29 22:47:19 · 9 answers · asked by T A 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
As far as learning to speak, I think that Spanish is pretty easy to learn. It's pretty straight forward, the only issue is that there are so many dialects. English isn't the easiest language to learn because of all of the exceptions to this rule and exceptions to that rule where grammar is concerned. But, I would have to think that the hardest would be some of the African languages like Bantu or Swahili as the meaning of words totally change with inflection and how you accent words.
As far as learning to read, I would obviously go with many of the Asian languages as their scripts are totally different from alpha numeric script.
2006-08-29 22:58:11 · answer #1 · answered by zaffaris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The easiest is English... That's the reason it was created, so it would be easy for the entire world to learn and speak it... It was to be meant as a peace language....
Hardest... has to be Chinese.... There are so many different associations possible... My 40 year old chinese teacher told us she still didn't know but about 50% of her own language... In China, language is an Art and only a few elites that makes it their life study actually know most of it....
2006-08-29 23:02:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know about 7 languages including English and French. the others are Indian languages. Most languages are inter-related (actually all of them are!) and it is easy to learn many easily.
Like for example French and Italian came from Latin, and English came from Anglo-saxon (early german) and so on.
According to my knowledge you can learn any language (even arabic, Mandarin or any other) 'cause these are fairly modern.
...the easiest in my opinion where Hindi and Tamil
...the toughest I learnt is my mother tongue(!) - Malayalam. This language is spoken in the south western state of Kerala in India.
...still tougher would be sound based languages like those used in some remote parts of Africa and Greece where they communicate through Whistling or sounds made from the mouth!
2006-08-29 23:02:33 · answer #3 · answered by Cyrene J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The easiest wld hv to be Malay language, in my opinion. As for the hardest, I'm learnin Turkish rite now and it's so bloody complicated! But well, it sounds so sexy wen I hear ppl speak da language so I guess it's worth it!
2006-08-29 22:54:23 · answer #4 · answered by Julie Mokhtar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In terms of grammar, I think Icelandic is a really hard language to learn, just because there's so incredibly many word endings to learn.
In terms of vocabulary, English is the hardest to learn, for the same reason. English has so many idioms and different words whose meaning is almost identical but not quite. Eg. "beer" versus "ale", or, "house", "abode", "home", "dwelling".
I don't think any language is easy. All languages have grammar: lots. All of which you have to master. Maybe Dutch is easy to learn for English speakers because it's so closely related, has less vocabulary and its spelling is very regular.
2006-08-30 12:20:11 · answer #5 · answered by duprie37 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the easiest is Italian and the hardest is Chinese.
2006-08-30 00:11:44 · answer #6 · answered by Victoria B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hardest : Arabic, Chinese, Japanese
Easiest : English
PS: Julie, I'm Turkish and I can't know but I think Turkish is easy to learn. It's similar with English. But the grammer is hard. (In the school I study hard to Turkish grammer to pass my Turkish exam) :-) Good luck!
2006-08-30 02:09:04 · answer #7 · answered by Irmak 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my opinion, all languages are hardest, only when u r learning them and easiest after uv learnt them.
2006-08-29 23:11:55 · answer #8 · answered by lifejourney 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hardest is arabic and easiest is english
2006-08-30 05:55:25 · answer #9 · answered by vertebralcolum 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋