which is the easiest foriegn languge?

Answer 1

Your own language. Although it may not be foreign to you, it is to many millions of people around the world!

Answer 2

For English speaking people most probably Scandinavian languages, like Danish or Swedish, because there are more similar to English.
All languages are hard in some ways and easier in others. Czech for an example has no articles and it has a logical grammatical system. no more than three verbal tenses and just a handful of irregular verbs, so it is easier than English in that way, but it has more variety of endings, and they have longer words because they use their prefixes, suffixes and infixes more.
French grammar is a nightmare and its pronunciation is difficult but it is a very small language compared to English.
Chinese and Japanese are most probably good languages for dyslexics to learn, because they write in symbols, so a dyslexic shouldn't have any more problems to learn it than any-other person.
German is has a lot of articles, but once you have got beyond that stage, it is much more logical than English. So basically they say it takes longer to learn the bases, but once you have pasted that it is easier than English because it is more logical.
However saying this what makes a language easy to learn is exposure to the language. If you have never heard a language before because you have not been exposed to it, it is difficult. What makes English easy is that people are always been exposed to it, through movies and music, English is everywhere and you can find it spoken everywhere. Also what makes a language easy is necessity, if you need a language you will learn it. If you don't need a language you will not put all your time into it.

Answer 3

For an English person I would say Spanish...Italian and French are a little more complex than Spanish....but Spanish remains very simple.
I would say English is easy if you want a basic level...but gets harder if you want to go beyond the basics because we have so many expressions and slang and it can become complicated.
I speak english, spanish, italian, french, portuguese, greek, turkish and bulgarian and have had lessons in thai, hindi, arabic, serbo-croat, japanese and chinese and I would rank them in this order with number 1 being the easiest

1: Spanish
2: Italian
3: French
4: Portuguese
5:English
6: Bulgarian
7: Serbo Croat
8: Turkish
9: Greek
10: Hindi
11: Arabic
12: Thai
13: Japanese
14: Chinese (because of written chinese)

What you also need to remember is that a if you are an English speaker, a european language will be easier than an asian because most european languages are from the same family of languages and so share similar characteristics in grammar, vocabulary.
If you take a work like "situation" and put it into french; situation, Spanish; situacion, Italian Situazione you will see that these are all similar to english making it easy to learn.....however if you take a language like greek situation = katastasi - a completely different word which means it will make it harder to learn because you will have more unfamiliar words to learn!

Good luck!

Answer 4

If you think that Italian is more complex than Spanish... I guess you're being taught these languages at different levels or with different methods? They have exactly the same complexity. Moreover, there are grammar categories which exist in Spanish and not in Italian, plus Italians make more use of borrowed English terms ;-)
It all depends on how deep you get into the language. Many Spanish methods are only intended to learn some holliday-essentials, while for example German methods take themselves very seriously and try to make a linguist out of everyone ;-)

Now, seriously, it depends on similarity with your mother tongue ...and MOTIVATION! That's the key word, if you fall in love with the language (or some of its speakers ;-) every language will seem easier!:-)

Answer 5

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.

Many people also ask, "Does anyone speak Esperanto? How can I practice it?" Well Esperanto is spoken by an estimated two million people world wide, and it's now growing because of the internet. It's the most widely spoken constructed auxiliary language, with the largest body of literature, music and even a few movies.

And yes, you can travel with Esperanto. To find out how, read this article in Wikipedia about the Esperanto "Pasporta Servo" (Passport Service):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasporta_Servo

If you want to find out more about Esperanto, Start with this Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

Answer 6

Any language is easy if you are under pressure to speak it. Live in a country and speak only that language for three months and your communication skills should be reasonably good in the language of that country. Dutch is very difficult because if you live there and try to speak in Dutch, they will answer in English just to help you. Germans do not have this problem and neither do the Spanish, but for a native English speaker, the easiest language to understand is the language they speak in Friesland in the north of Holland. It is a language, but it combines Dutch, some German, but also a good percentage of heavily accented English. Once you tune your ear, it is quite easy to understand.

Answer 7

English

Answer 8

For an English mother tongue: I think German.
but in general, I think English is a simple language!
Italian, Spanish and French have a difficult grammar.
Arabic, a difficult pronunciation but an easy grammar.
Chinese... no comment: too difficult (it needs a lot of memory)...

Answer 9

French

Answer 10

Hi,

I'm sure that the easiest language is french. And if you know french, you can easily learn spanish & Italian. Just to tell you, that i'm armenian & I know 4 languages: armenian, french, english, arabic & i took some primary courses of Spanish...
I found French the easiest one....

Answer 11

For a native English speaker, the easiest to master are: Italian, French & Spanish.