which language is the easiest of alll to learn from scratch? french, jap or german?

Question

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Answer 1

Since The root of English is in germanic language, Learning German is by far the easiest language for someone who speaks English to learn.

Hope this clears things up for you.

Answer 2

Pretty much only infants learn a language from scratch, and it doesn't make much difference to them. Even severe stroke victims have something of their native languages inside.

If you're starting from English, forget Japanese; its structure and vocabulary are utterly different from ours. Japanese has picked up a number of English words, but phonetic differences may make even these hard to recognize.

Both German and English are West Germanic languages, but they have been separated for many centuries. An advantage may be that German words are easier for us to understand, as they have a tonic stress. On the other hand, (High) German has gone through another consonant shift and also retains many Germanic words long lost to English, and German grammar retains many inflexions that have long since disappeared from English, including the original Indo-European tri-gender system and the declination of nouns and adjectives.

Technically, French, though also an Indo-European language, is much farther removed from English. But English has imported far more Latin and French words than German has, making French easier to make out on the page. Learning to understand a language where everything appears to flow together, however, makes for greater problems.

Offhand, it you want to learn to speak and understand, German may be easier. On the other hand, it you want to read, try French.

Answer 3

Assuming you know English: German, French, Japanese, in this order.

French should be a little harder than German in the beginning because of all the Latinate grammar. But on the long run French would be easier because there are so many French words used in English. Japanese will be really hard because all grammar and most vocabulary are totally unknown.

Answer 4

That's tough...I would say, of those three, German would be the easiest (though it's still rather difficult). French right behind it, then Japanese (though Japanese, I think, is still easier than Chinese).

German is very similar to English, and its pronunciations aren't really too difficult if you work at it. Everything is spelled the way its pronounced, and many words are very similiar to their respective English words. Sentence structure is very concrete, though different from English, and it's very specific, with very few "exceptions" from the basic rules.

Answer 5

From a close experience: As I speak German and French.... French of course.

Answer 6

Too bad you didn't include Spanish, because that's the one I would choose. Japanese may be the toughest. If you know Spanish, you can talk to more of the people in the world than if you know Japanese, German or French.

Answer 7

If you know Chinese then I advise you to take Japanese. It's really useful, the pronunciation is easy and you can pick it up quite fast if you have a passion for it. the same for the others.

sounds like you're thinking of taking a 3rd Language in Sec School :) take care