Name 1 language that is the easiest to learn beside English?

Answer 1

If you already know English, Spanish will be easy to learn because it's very similar to English in its grammatical style.

Answer 2

Esperanto - a man made language. Then it may probably be between the Germanic languages, considering English is a Germanic language. Of the romance languages, Spanish has the least confusing grammar. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that a stable 40% of English words come at as quickly as from French. So an English individual gaining expertise of French has a extensive benefit in that they already comprehend an excellent many words or roots of words. Ditto for a French individual gaining expertise of English.

Answer 3

There is a lot of similarity between German and English too. English is actually a Germanic language. I picked that up fairly easily. But French and Spanish are pretty easy too. If you were to pick one to learn to be marketable as an employee, I would recommend German (#1 economy in the EU), Chinese (Learn this, the sky is the limit), or Spanish.

Answer 4

In my view, there is no "easiest" language to learn. Each individual approaches the learning of a second language from the perspective of his native language. Esperanto was an attempt to combine as many grammatical, syntactical and lexical similarities as possible into a hybrid language; however, most of the similarities come from the same "language family," thereby making it a difficult language to learn from the perspective of, say, a native speaker of a Slavic language as opposed to a native speaker of a romance language.

For example, most native English speakers will say that Russian is more difficult to learn than English; most native Russian speakers will say just the opposite!

It's as much a matter of perspecitve as is learning to assimilate a foreign culture.

Answer 5

Any language is equally easy or difficult to learn. Usually, if you learn another language besides your own, the next one after that comes considerably easier. I speak Russian, English and Spanish. I am trying to learn Italian now and find it a lot easier than it was learning Spanish.

Answer 6

What? Are you kidding? How do you come to the conclusion that English is the easiest? Because you managed to learn it?
English is easy when you are born into it and learn the idioms that it's laced with, or if you're lucky enough to be imersed into it. Otherwise it's very difficult.
Take for instance the term 'go to bed.' Simple because you've learned the meaning of each of the words used. Now someone throws 'hit the rack' at you. You know what it is to hit, you know what a rack is, although you may not be familiar with the old Spanish inquisition rack. So now you're as confused as hell.

The easiest language is Esperanto. The past, present and future tense is always the same; -is for past, -as for present and -os for future. Also -us is a conditional tense and -u is an imperitive tense. Nouns end in 'o', adjectives end in 'a' and adverbs end in 'e'. You can always identify the direct object of a sentence because it has an 'n' on the end. This means you can change the order of the sentence and still retain the meaning. There are 28 letters in the alphabet and each has its own sound, no silent letters. If the word is spoken correctly, you automatically know how to spell it. With the system of affixes (10 prefixes and 32 suffixes), if I tell you a root word, you will automatically know the other possible variations of that word. In this paragraph alone I've just given you a few of the sixteen simple rules that the language is composed of. Learn a few words to go with it and you're set to discuss simple things about yourself. A weeks instruction and you can discuss physics if you've a mind to study a couple hours a day for seven days. (Results may very, consult http://www.lernu.net for intense instruction.)
You get the idea. Once you've got those basics, it's simply a matter of absorbing vocabulary and learning a few more rules.
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Answer 7

Spanish

Answer 8

Spanish

Answer 9

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 10

Actually, English is not the easiest to learn - it's Spanish.