What is the easiest language to learn??

Answer 1

English and Italian though German and Greek are the hardest

Answer 2

If you are an English speaker, then any of the Germanic languages such as German, Dutch and Flemish - as the grammar is constructed similarly to English.

If you know any of the Romantic languages (French, etc) then, for the same reason as above, it is easy to learn another of these langauges (eg. Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, etc).

Of course, Esperanto was invented to be easy for everybody to learn, so in theory that should be the easiest language to learn......but not so many people use it.

I found Greek very easy to learn. Once you had learned the alphabet and the sounds each letter make - its just a case of reading what you see. Every word (almost) in Greek is spoken as it looks.................not like English where you have things like "bough" and "bow", "bough" and "trough", and so on, which must be very confusing.

Answer 3

English

Answer 4

The easiest language to learn, if youre native language is english, would probably be frisian. Apparently if u concentrate, you can actually understand what theyre saying.

But, frisian isnt widely spoken, its only actually spoken in some parts of the netherlands.

From my point of view, i thought Afrikaans was really easy to learn, compared to arabic, french, urdu, german, it is a piece of cake. A lot of things in english are the same in afrikaans.

Afrikaans shares 85 % of its vocab with dutch. Which brings me to the final answer: Dutch.

Try reading it, youll get what i mean.

Answer 5

I've heard that English is actually the hardest language to learn.. Easy for us becuase we grew up with it... To be honest I don't know what would be the easiest language... I guess it comes down to personal choice.. Some poeple might find say Japanese easier to learn than others.. :-)

Answer 6

Sign language, more specifically ASL if you live in America. Sign languages are considered a different language than spoken langauges, but what makes them easier to leanr is that rules of grammar don't have to necessarily followed. Sign langauge is conceptual, so if one doesn't know a sign, they can still "paint a picture" with his body and still be understood. If you're a creative person, sign langauge should be picked up pretty quickly.

Answer 7

It Depends On Person French Was Easiest For Me So was spanish and japanese but hindu was my most complex even though it wasnt that hard

Answer 8

There is no such thing as the easiest language. It depends on your ability to learn.

Answer 9

Spanish & French the romantic languages

Answer 10

For you as an English speaker, probably English Creole would be "easiest". Many of the words have English and French origins ("sikhaus" = "hospital", "dog" = "chen"), there are fewer prepositions (two) and pronouns, and simpler spellings. It's also spoken by several million people, so it's somewhat useful.

http://iteslj.org/v/creole/
http://www.mongabay.com/indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Creole-English.html

In general for speakers of any language, two of the easiest languages to learn are (believe it or not) Japanese and Korean. If one leaves out the Chinese characters used in them (and uses only one level of politeness, the one for strangers), the phonetic scripts are quite easy to learn.

As well, the sentence order is different but logical ("subject object verb" compared to English's "subject verb object"). The prepositions (particles, they are called) make referencing topic, subject and object pronouns much easier (there is no I/me/myself nonsense, only "watashi" in Japanese). Pronoun references are nowhere near as complex at Latin, but they're similar.

Japanese and Korean verbs are also easier: the roots don't (or rarely) change and are changed by suffixes. Instead of modern English ("don't judge") think 17th century English ("judge not"); modal verbs (have, can, must) and moods (imperatives, pleading) are suffixes, not separate words, plus they can be added together on one verb: one Japanese or Korean verb can say what it takes five English words to say. Once you learn the root verb, the suffixes are always the same, none of our "past participle" nonsense. (Japanese has only TWO irregular verbs, "to do" and "to come", English has dozens.)

Added to that are the phonetics of the language. English has nearly _40_ vowel sounds and more than _30_ consonant sounds. Korean has 14 consonant sounds and 11 vowel sounds and they never change; Japanese has more consonants, but only _5_ vowel sounds, and they don't change either. (There is one exception: nasalizations; for example, in both Korean and Japanese, an "n" is spoken as "m" before a "b" because it's easier to say. English does that too: "baked" ends with a "t" sound, not a "d".)

On top of that, you don't even have to learn the scripts to speak in Japanese or Korean, English letters can be used. A good comparison is Singapore which speaks Mandarin but writes in Pinyin, using English letters. Actress Michelle Yeoh can speak fluent Chinese, but she can't read it, she writes with the Latin alphabet that we use. (People read movie scripts to her and she memorizes them!)

http://japanese.about.com/
http://www.learn-japanese.info/

http://www.learnkorean.com/
http://www.learn-korean.net/

Chinese is definitely the worst language to learn (and Finnish runs a close second). It's not just the characters, there are tones: "ma" can mean "mother", "horse", "scold", "hemp" or it makes a sentence a question:

"Māma mà mǎ de má ma?"
"Is Mother scolding the horse's hemp?"

English is bad for this too. "I like cookies" can be said in _seven_ different ways, all with different meanings: plain, or as a question or statement combined with emphasis on each of the three words. Try explaining that to speakers of other languages! (Japanese for example, has NO accent stresses and this English quirk drives them crazy.)


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Answer 11

Spanish, I think, but for some people languages like German are easier. Depends on the person, really.