What is the easiest and hardest language to learn and why?

Answer 1

Not sure which is the easiest to learn but English is the hardest one to learn because we have so many words that sound the same but spelt differently and we have so many uses for the same word................ There Their
21 Reasons Why The English Language Is Hard To Learn:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was
time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Answer 2

I think the easiest language to learn is any of those artificial languages that have been deliberately made easy. I mean, Ido, Esperanto or Interlingua, for example.

Now the hardest language would be one that is very different from yours, and from the ones you know. So it depends on the learner. In my case (a native Spanish speaker), it's been Basque. But I'm sure Basque people, who have been learning it since their birth, don't find it so hard as I do.

Answer 3

The easiest is obviously your mother-tongue because you are born hearing it and the hardest would be one you have never heard because, unless you hear a language, you can never learn it.

Answer 4

If you are a native English speaker, the Defense Language Institute, which trains military linguists, determined that the four most difficult languages to learn are the four Category IV languages--Japanese, Arabic, Chinese and Korean. (I know there are several varieties of Arabic and Chinese, but this means ALL variations and dialects.) The easiest langauges are Category I--Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Answer 5

Well, learning a new language is always hard.

As for me, I'm learning Korean based on books and internet search. There are many pronounciation rules such as how it may change dpending whether or not the proceding letter is a vowel or consonant. The hardest part of writing is probably the word order.

Easiest language not my mother toungue? Mandarin. lol.

Answer 6

There's not such a thing as easier or harder language. Otherwise, the people who speak the 'harder' languages wouldn't speak them.

However, there are some languages that are harder to learn if your first language is English. Most of Occidental languages should be easier to learn than the languages in the Middle East, Africa or Asia since the structure of those languages and the writing is totally different to what we are usually in contact with.

Answer 7

easiest is Spanish beacause there are some words that are the same and speaking it its no hard but the hardest language its either Japanese or Chinese..they have to many alphabet and how can you read letters that looks like drawing no offense but Hindu is the same they dont use ''letters''

Answer 8

the easiest language would be english and the hardest language to learn would be arabian/middle eastern....

Answer 9

i think for hardest i would say any of the tonal languages. this would be like chinese, japanese...in languages like this, words can be comprised of the same sounds, but differing tones make the meanings completely different. this makes language learning hard because one "word" could have many meanings, depending on the tone.

Answer 10

I personally feel that spanish is the easiest, because you pronounce everything in front of you as is. I think Latin is the hardest, because most languages, if not all, derive from it. Also, I've seen some of my friends fail Latin in school. A lot of them who are 85 students like me.