What language do you thiink is the easiest to learn? ^_^?

Answer 1

If you were a baby who does not know anything, I would say Mandarin is the easiest to learn. Why?
I give you an example. To teach a child to learn other languages, say English, with coutnting:
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 8, 9, 10.
It usually take days even week for the child to memorize those words and picture or figures to indicate numbers.

But for the Chinese, or Mandarin speaking children, it is:
yi er san si wu liu qi ba jiu shi.
一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十
一 = one line means "one"
二 = two lines means "two}
三 = three lines means "three"
四 = four means a square or quadrangle, with "four" corners.
五 = is a chair standing on the floor with one extra "line" on top,
so, "four legs" plus one on top = "five"
六 = "six" is the number of "man", and it looks like a standing with outstretched hands and legs.
七 = "seven" is the picture of a man or person raising his hands to bless something.
八 = "eight" is a picture of a mountain where eight people in the ark of Noah and his family of 8 persos landed (Mount Ararat)
九 = "nine" is a picture of a person running towards the goal, or the end, which is "ten"
十 = "ten" is of course , if you put your left hand with 5 fingers, vertically and the other hand with also 5 fingers horizontally totalling "ten" fingers.
I taught kindergarten children in two different schools in the year 2000 in Jakarta, and 2001 in Denpasar, Bali, and found out, that they can memorize the ten numbers in Chinese, in just two meetings, while teaching them to memorize the ten numbers in any other languages, be it English, Malaysian, Indonesian, Dutch, Makassarese, Sundanese, etc. will take them more than 8 sessions, and they still make mistakes in remembering them and writing them out.

As to words memorizing, it is the same thing.

It is simpler and no problem in memorizing how to read it, because they don't have to guess or memorize which "a" should be pronounced as "ah", in which word is sounds like "aeh" , or "eh" or "uh". "a" is always pronounced "ah" in Mandarin.
"e" is always "eh", "i" is always "ih" with only a few exeptions, and "o' is always pronounced as "oh".

Do you understand? is "ming bai mah?" And it is written as
明白. Ming is a drawing of the "sun" and the "moon". So you say, if I combine the light of the sun and of the moon together,
it becomes "bright' or in Mandarin it is "ming". and "bai" 白 is the picture of the "sun" with a little "ray" or small dot on the top, indicating "sun ray". Wait a minute, don't laugh, and say how can the sun and the moon look like a square. Well in the beginning or ancient time, it was exactly drawn like that, round sun and crescent moon. But they found out that it is more difficult to draw a round circle and crescent for the tine tots than to draw a rectangle or a square. Now they have now problems teaching how to write it in just a few days time.
Ming bai, means "understand" or literally means "as bright as if we combine the light from the sun and the moon." And as "plain" as the color "white". Meaning it is so bright and white, to me, so plain and easy to see, or of course, "understand".
Other advantage? It has been proven that people who knows how to speak, read and write Chinese, are later in their lives to be affected by Alzheimers' disease or dimentia, loss of memory!
By the way, Chinese is not my first language or mother tongue.
That is the last language which I learned successfully after I reached the ago of 55, that is ten years ago.
My mother tongue is Sundanese, my second language is Dutch, my third language is Makassarese, my fourth language is Indonesian, then English then, Manadonese, etc., etc., and the 15th was Mandarin and the 16th was Cantonese.
If you asked me which ones do I think are the most beneficial to me? It is Mandarin, English, Indonesian or Malaysian. If yo can speak those four languages you can go anywhere in the world.
Of course it depends where you work, but at least I should say, study English and your native language. Or English plus at least anothe language which you will use the most because of your business, or career.
Best wishes to all of you! Semoga sukses! Zhu ni xingfu!

Answer 2

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 easier to learn than any national language. 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 3

Depends on what your first language is. For an English speaker it might be Spanish. For a Chinese speaker, it might be Korean , or Japanese.

As a child it makes no real difference. Someone brought up in a Russian home learns Russian as quickly as another baby learning french in a french family.

Adults, I think it is related to how closely related the second language is to the maternal language.

I hope this helps a bit.

Answer 4

I took 3 years of French in high school, and have been taking it while in college as my minor--I find it a lot easier to pick up on some Spanish and Italian now. Listening to the music of the culture, watching movies in that language, or just reading it helps a ton. Long story short, I feel that French was decently easy to learn:-)

Answer 5

English is so much easier than Spanish (I'm Puerto Rican and was raised in Puerto Rico by the way). And Japanese is easier than English but the writing is really difficult.

God bless you

Answer 6

Personally, I took very easily to Spanish, but it's different for every person. Most people I have talked to think that Spanish and Italian are very easy though.

Answer 7

Foul language

Answer 8

for me, as a native english speaker, it has been spanish. Spelling and pronunciation is as easy as it gets. Grammar can get a little tricky, but not bad.

Answer 9

Netspeak.

Answer 10

Not English, that's for sure.