what is the easiest language to learn?

Question

i want to know waht is the easiest language in the world to learn

Answer 1

i think Spanish

Answer 2

I'd say Spanish and Italian, but it depends on what your own language is. My first language is Slovak (the same family as Polish and Russian), which is a very hard language, so it's not so difficult for me to learn another lingo, but then I love learning languages. But if you are really keen on learning a new language, you'll do it never mind how difficult it is. Good luck with learning!

English is actually the easiest language to learn IMO, lots of our people think the same.

Answer 3

No language is "easy" to learn, it depends if you have a flair for languages or not.

Firstly, I'd like to correct a few things above, German is NOT the easiest language to learn, it's grammar structure is extremely complicated and translators and interpreters are actually paid MORE per hour for translating into and out of German that Spanish, French or Italian for example, simply due to its complicity.

English, to some people, is very easy due to its simple grammar structure. ie., we have no masculine and feminine words, the verbs don't change much when you conjugate them, and the subjunctive case hardly exists. The difficulty is the pronunciation, look at the words "cough", "tough", "bough" and "bought" for example, the OUGH is pronounced in a completely different way in each case.

Spanish is generally thought of as an easy language, and this is true to a certain point. It's very phonetical., ie you pronounce words as they are written, it doesn't have declinations like German, Russian or Finnish and it's grammar structure is relatively straight forward.

I don't speak Italian, but friends who have studied it tell me it's actually easier than Spanish - I can't comment on this.

At the end of the day I guess it all depends on what your native language is, Spanish speakers can pick up Portuguese very easily and vice-versa. Likewise Catalan speakers can understand French if spoken slowly and deliberately. My vote has to go to Spanish though, the language rocks!

Answer 4

That all depends on what language you start out with, for English speakers Spanish or Italian, why?...because of the similar grammar, lots of cognates, and the pronunciation is closer to english than most other languages, not to mention fairly simple grammatical structure in comparison. But for someone who speaks a language that isn't derived from Latin or the germanic tribes such as any East Asian languages, then it might be a different story alltogether.

Answer 5

contrary to how it looks, Japanese is pretty easy, the structure that is. you just have to memorize lot for the characters but they have a logical sense to them that is easy once you are taught it. also, pronunciation is easy for English speakers because it has less intonations that English, meaning it is really flat (no curly "Rs" or anything hard to pronounce). if by easiest you mean least effort-i don't know then; but if you mean easiest as in easiest to understand, then this is the language for you! i also read that Korean is the most logically constructed language on the earth (meaning easy) and it is similar to Japanese is grammar structure, but having visited and practiced it, i think the pronunciation is more difficult than Japanese-good luck! learning a language is fun when you actually put it to use!

Answer 6

Languages come from different language-family-trees. Depending what is your mother language, usually the language that is the closest to it will be easier to learn.
Check this website and find out which language is the closest to yours. If you speak English probably German is the closest.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/arjenbolhuis/language-family-trees/

When you are learning a language it helps to be able to practice outside the class. This is also good to consider.

Hope it helps.

Answer 7

Try Mandarin Chinese. Seriously! There is no verb conjugation, and the grammar is very easy.

Swedish and Norwegian (they are pretty much the same language) are also very similar to English and have no 1st/ 2nd/3rd person verb conjugation.

The hardest languages to learn for a native English speaker are Finnish and Hungarian. I found Japanese to be very difficult as well because of complicated grammar.

Answer 8

Sign Language is not universal. American sign language is quite different to British. American's use one hand to finger spell, we use 2. Some signs are very different!!
I think English is easiest language to learn!!!

Answer 9

Depends on the how and why to be honest...My French teacher suggested I dump her class and take German since I couldn't seem to form the proper "accent"...then she was disgusted with me since I was speaking German with a French accent...Then I moved to Florida where I wish I had taken Spanish!

My sister speaks 5 languages and she suggest what ever one you choose make it one that you can use at least once a week. If you don't use it you loose it. So if there is a large Spanish speaking group around you pick that one, German, Dutch etc...

Answer 10

Sign language.

Answer 11

The easiest language to learn is ur own mother tongue. French is easy to learn