What is the easiest language to learn???

Question

I have to take a 3 course language in College.


I have NO forigen language background.

What language would be the easiest to learn.

Spanish or Italian?

Answer 1

Actually I am fluent in both Spanish and Italian....you know one you pretty much know the other. Same for Portuguese and to some degree French (Latin/ romance languages) However, I would say Spanish will be easier for help is readily available. And I would even say, Spanish is more useful... Have fun and dont be intimidated by it.

Answer 2

Spanish will probably have a larger department and more teachers; I bet the Italian department at your college is one or two people. Talk to somebody in the Italian department and try to determine if you'd want to take a class with that person as a professor. Otherwise, go with Spanish.

I'd say that Spanish is a marginally easier language to learn, but neither one is terribly difficult for an English speaker to master, especially for three semesters.

Answer 3

Spanish is definitely pretty easy, except for the subjunctive mood use. Italian is a lot more "beautiful-sounding" though. I'm actually learning Italian right now and the main difference is...there's practically no one to practice my Italian with, and yet if I want to practice my Spanish, I just have to go to the foreign language hallway (where the Spanish professors are!) or over to Wal-Mart. However, I've decided to stick with Italian because I would really like to travel to Italy in the future.

Answer 4

Out of those two, most likely Spanish. I speak both, and Spanish was easiest for me. However, I learned it when I was very young.

Out of all the languages, however, I think the easiest language to learn is Dutch, or another Germanic language. They are very similar to Engish.

Answer 5

well, you picked two very similar languages. Either one would be good and would make learning the other that much easier. Personally, I would stick with Spanish. I think its a little easier than Italian (Just a tiny, little bit) and it will be more resourceful for you when you're out finding jobs.

Answer 6

Spanish and Italian are about equal difficulty, Spanish will probably be more useful in your everyday life after college unless you move to Italy.

Answer 7

I was going to say Piglatin is really easy. But they won't approve that one in college. Spanish has 5,000 words that we use in the English language so you have a head start on that one.

Answer 8

If you're not from the States, your best bet is probably to learn English.

Answer 9

Spanish, definitely! It's pretty easy and the most useful.

Answer 10

Esperanto. It won't do you any good in real life though. If you want something you can later use, take Spanish.