What is generally considered the most easy language for a native english speaker to learn?

Answer 1

Designed to be learned easily, Esperanto is the gateway to many other languages and cultures. Check the site below for information on Esperantos' value in learning other languages.

I frequently make this next statement, and I live by it.

"If you can't learn Esperanto, you can't learn any language."

It's not uncommon for a student of Esperanto to become fluent inside of a month, maybe less, if you've the desire.

The sites below are the best initial places to investigate the language and it's history. (Yes, it has a history (119 years) and a culture.)

Research and make your own conclusions.

Ĝis!

Answer 2

It depends how good you want to get. If you want to get by, it's pretty easy, if you want to really be able to form your own grammatically correct sentences, it's difficult. As with anything, you get out what you put it. I found the pronciation easy, as once you learn how each letter should sound, they pronounce every letter in every word - there are no silent letters in german, and no different ways of pronouncing the same letters like in english (through and rough for example). English speakers think german word order is weird, but once you learn the rules it's pretty straight forward (time, manner, place/verb 2nd position and participle to the end of clause etc). I find prepositions impossible, they never translate directly, but that's true in any language. There are three genders for nouns (feminine, masculine and neuter) and you really need to know them in order to be grammatically correct, as the noun's gender affects what ending will be on your adjective (adjectives change endings in german). Also there are 4 cases (nominative, accusative, genetive and dative) which you need to know and understand as this also affects meaning and adjective endings. That's all stuff we don't have to deal with in English! As you can see, learning a language is more than simply learning words, you have to understand the grammar. But I love German because its grammar is very regular - once they have a rule they generally stick to it! German is a whole lot more regular than French - I swear they just make it up as they go along!

Answer 3

Frisian or Dutch are the closest related languages to English.

That's not however very practical for most in the US, unless they plan on spending lots of time in Holland (not a bad place at all to spend some time!)

It is important to understand though that language isn't learned, it's acquired in a very different cognitive process than how we'd "learn" facts.

There are learned aspects of language-you learn lexicons for example. Knowing words and putting them together in a grammatical manner is something completely different.

So the real answer is which ever language you are motivated to learn, as long as affective features of the acquisition process are not impeded and you have guided assistance to figure out the syntactic, pragmatic and lexical features of that target language.

Answer 4

Generally Spanish is considered the easiest. French is also considered one of the easier languages to learn, but the accent is more difficult to learn. Meaning, it is harder to actually pronounce the words correctly. Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and those types of languages are generally considered to be the most difficult because they are drastically different from English.

Answer 5

with out a doubt it is spanish.. grammar is similar and there is alot of similar words as well as the opportunity to learn from people that dont live across the world

Answer 6

Perhaps American. They just have to learn the different way of spelling, pronouncing etc.

Not too difficult.

Answer 7

Any language of the Latin language family.

Answer 8

Probably Spanish first, then ebonics. Ebonics is a little tricky and takes time dawg. :)

Answer 9

I'd guess french. There's lots of similar words

Answer 10

I'd guess Spanish