For example, the easiest sentence structures that most resembles English and many cognates.
2006-10-09 12:51:09 · 21 answers · asked by car_lover_42020 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Spanish is a good one because English and Spanish both share roots in Latin.
2006-10-09 12:53:15 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
70% of words in English have cognates in French. This is especially true in scientific and academic vocabulary. If you are trying to decide which language to learn, look at the languages where you live. It doesn't matter how easy the language is to learn, if you don't have an opportunity to practice it, then you will have difficulty learning it.
Most people have said that they would choose Spanish. I am guessing that that is because most people on this site are American, and so they mostly learn Spanish in school. If you live in Canada, French or an Asian language would be more useful. So like I said, take a listen around you and see which would be most useful.
I have a degree in French, and I live in Canada. I find that I have an opportunity to use my French a lot, but there's not a lot of Spanish around here.
Sorry for the long answer.
2006-10-09 16:11:15 · answer #2 · answered by mbm244 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spanish for sure! It's much more phonetic than français so you can sound out new words with relatively more confidence than you would with german, swedish, dutch, french, portuguese...etc. For sure there are plenty of cognates...except the list in the textbooks that we have for grammar and vocabulary. Plenty of native speakers out there, its the fourth most spoken in the world. Yay! Ok. So, although English is a Germanic language, Spanish is still easier to pick up :) Nouns and adjectives (so far in most of the other languages I've searched into) have feminine and masculine differentiations (in german too) so that obstacle will probably always be there...and another advantage: it's a "popular" language since spanish, along with french, arabic, english, russian, & mandarin, is one of the official UN languages! Anyway, I wish you good luck!
2006-10-09 13:33:34 · answer #3 · answered by cristal 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
French, Spanish and Italian have the most cognates. Dutch and German have a lot too. But Asian languages such as Chinese, Vietnamese, Malay and Indonesian have the simplest sentence structures. Overall, I'd say Spanish is the easiest.
2006-10-09 12:57:01 · answer #4 · answered by Marakey 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
German. German and English are both descendants of an earlier Germanic language. Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, and Icelandic are also descendants of this earlier Germanic language and "brothers" of English.
You didn't ask, but:
Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Romanian are all descendants from Latin. Many people, I've noticed, on Yahoo answers say English is a Latin language. This is not true. Both the earlier Germanic language and Latin are descendants of a common Indo-European language. There are numerous words with Latin roots or origins in English, but English is only related to Latin, not a descendant.
2006-10-09 14:32:39 · answer #5 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Esperanto is the least complicated. each and all the uncomplicated nationwide languages require a minimum of four cases as plenty time to earnings. Out of those, norwegian may be the least complicated, yet no longer plenty much less annoying than dutch, french, frisian, swedish, italian being waiting to get instructions contained in the language could help plenty
2016-10-02 03:24:17 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scandinavian languages are easy for me. They have very simple grammar, sometimes directly translatable into English, and some words are very close to English words. However, the sounds are of course different, and like German, have more vowel sounds than English.
2006-10-09 14:35:01 · answer #7 · answered by kristi e 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spanish and French are Romance Languages - meaning they are derived from Latin (Romans). English was influenced by the Romance Languages. I took Spanish in high school and college. although parts of it were challenging, I found some of the words/verbs, etc. to be very close to English.
Buena Suerte (good luck)
2006-10-09 13:00:00 · answer #8 · answered by Malika 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Spanish is easiest to pronounce, spell, and has familiar words. I hear that German's sentence structure is more like English, however.
2006-10-09 12:54:55 · answer #9 · answered by Sinner & Saint 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm no language expert, but I'm on my second year in Spanish, and many things resemble English. I've tried Japanese among others, and Spanish is so much easier.
2006-10-09 13:04:38 · answer #10 · answered by Conspirator 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋