wanting to learn a second language is their any one considered easier to learn than another?

Answer 1

Spanish, easy on the tongue, flows like a song, very easy to pick up, and is only second to the US, all over the world. Will definately not be a waste of time. I Took french all through high school, can't remember a word because its used very little here.
Spanish on the other hand is as important as english. It is my third laguage, truly a wonderful language to learn and easy too.
Good Luck

Answer 2

Go for Spanish. It has a lot of similar Latin-based characteristics to English. It is also the second or third most widely spoken language in the world, think of all the holidays you could take, in Spain, South and Central America!

French might be OK if you know a bit already. Because it is pronounced quite differently to the way it is spelt (from an English point of view :) you might find it more difficult.

And German may have many similar Saxon words to English, but the language is structured quite differently. Takes a bit of getting used to. And Germans and particularly good at speaking English (basically because noone can be bothered to learn German :), so you will rarely have a problem being understood there.

Answer 3

I don't think that is the good question because any language has its difficulties and can also be easy in some ways. Of course the fact of using the same alphabet is a help but then again when you start from scratch you can still make it. I think if you want or need another language you will manage but if you try to learn any language when it has no interest for you then it'll be very hard.
I started to learn languages because i wanted to travel around the world so i first chose languages that are the more used around the world. Then i chose languages by centre of interest like researches i wanted to be able to do in the local language...I now speak 6 languages and am starting another in another alphabet !!
Good luck (English)
Buena suerte (Spanish)
Viel gluck (German)
Bonne chance (French)
Buona fortuna (Italian)
Powodzenia (Polish)
(smile)

Answer 4

Try learning Esperanto (I speak English, Esperanto, Spanish, and German) Esperanto was far easier to learn than any of the others, and it opened the world to me. I've had conversations with people from every continent, and every country, and I only had to learn the easiest language on earth to do so.

You might ask, why is Esperanto easier to learn than any of the other languages? It's because it is a language designed to be simple to learn. Most of the time spent studying a foreign language is spent learning the irregularities and rule exceptions ("I before E except after C", " 'sheep' is both singular and plural", etc). Esperanto has only 16 gramatical rules, and no exceptions to any of the rules.

And before you ask, yes you can travel with Esperanto. Read this article in Wikipedia about the Esperanto "Pasporta Servo" (Pasport Service)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasporta_Servo

Answer 5

Germanic languages; English is a West Germanic language so something of that type interior of reason hassle-free with the aid of fact a brilliant sort of the words are the comparable as English and the pronunciations are close to English. English greater often than not feels like Dutch and the spelling is comparable. English is likewise similar to German. Then comes the Scandinavian languages which additionally are Germanic, like Norwegian and Swedish. those languages are heavily regarding English so i stumbled on them less difficult to learn. yet if you consider which you're in for international business corporation, i prefer to propose chinese language or Russian. Spanish is barely functional in usa. otherwise, that's a ineffective language.

Answer 6

It's easier if you visit the country regularly and can practice. Or can see a steady diet of un-dubbed films.
So choose French, Italian, Spanish, wherever you travel most.
As a speaker of several, I have always found it difficult to learn, but I would say French or Spanish are probably the simplest out of a difficult lot.

Answer 7

I am learning spanish at the moment, its not as easy as it would have been when I was young, but im getting on fine. It is a good choice as its the 2nd most popular language to English

Answer 8

In theory, Spanish should be "easy" but don't let anyone convince you that it is. It should be but the Spanish do not pronounce as they should - especially in Andalucia. Here they shorten words, miss the S almost everywhere and lisp a lot.

I can speak it quite well now but understanding what is said it still a struggle. I found Italian the easiest. German quite difficult because of the complex words and the sentence structure.

Answer 9

German is easier to learn than French, but if you're returning to French say after a number of years of not speaking it then relearning French is straightforward in comparision to German. Japanese is actually not difficult once you memorise the vowels etc, Japanese is easier to use in a learning context than is German if you want just the oral skill not the complete language skill set.

Answer 10

Depends if you already know bits of another. Like I did a bit of French at school, and now find Spanish and Italian easy to pick up. German sounds fairly easy, there's a lot of similar words.