Is there any language that is easier than English?

Answer 1

There's no harder or easier language: the german kids speak fluently german - the same happens to the finnish, chinese, japanese, bolivian, arabian and any other child in any place the world - if there were a real hard-mastering language you would find one that no kid would be able to speak it as her/his mothertongue.

The difficulty depends on which your mother language is. If you speak a germanic language, then they would be the easier to be learnt than the altaic ones.

Esperanto was made to be easier for everybody, but in reality it's easy only for the post-indoeuropean-languages speakers.

Answer 2

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 3

English is only an 'easy' language for beginners but as you start getting interested in it, discover its beauty (and the myriad of exeptions to the many, many rules) English becomes a very complex language. But I think this would apply to most languages. I have just learned Malay, and it was 'as easy as English if not even easier' in the beginning. Now I discover its depth and richness (most Malaysians won't go that far though) and it becomes, just as English, a beautifully complex language with very precise words and expressions, albeit most of them rarely used nowadays.

Answer 4

Well it all matters on opinion... If you are learning as a child, it is probably easier learning any language than learning it as an older teen or adult. But since I am Korean... I think that it is pretty easy because English is kinda hard considering that a letter doesnt have to have only one sound. You can just sound out a korean word and know how to spell it.

Answer 5

well, for me, no...
There are languages that are more regular than English (especially for past tenses), languages with fewer and easier sounds than English has (th and some of the dipthongs cause a lot of people trouble), languages with smaller vocabularies (actually all of them--although that arguably makes English easier), tons of languages with easier spelling, and no doubt languages with simpler aspect systems (present perfect vs. present simple vs. present progressive) and fewer inexplicable idioms and collocations. So yeah, all languages are easier than English, just as all languages are harder than English...

Answer 6

English is a very hard language. Pretty much anything besides Japanese and other asian languages is easier.

Answer 7

Korean is the most logical language on the planet.
But most languages derived from Latin, such as Spanish and French, are confusing in some areas.
Greek, Slavic and Cyrillic languages (Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish etc.) are quite general and fun to learn, and, in cases like Russian and Ukrainian, once you learn one, you can learn the other doubly fast.

Answer 8

are you kidding? english is really hard. think about it...the plural of ox is oxen, but what are the plurals of fox and box? the past tense of tan is tanned, but the past tense of ran isn't ranned. if you grew up speaking it, it comes naturally. but there are millions of exceptions to the rule when it comes to learning english as a second language.

Answer 9

English isn´t easy at all!..Spanish and italian,,,portuguese, are more or less easy. Mamma Mia que cosa!

Answer 10

Hawaiian only has like 13 letters in their alphabet.