What makes a language easy?

Question

Name me some things and please explain yourself. Don't just say
easy alphabet or easy words, explain how it should be for it to be easy.

Answer 1

Lots of rules that can be readily memorized make a language easy for me. Those with a lot of ambiguity and unwritten rules like English make for difficult languages.

Answer 2

I don't think there is anything to make a language easy...just like other things, seems to depend on what's easy for a certain person...some people are good at drawing or sports or LANGUAGES!
I just noticed, the more you learn, the easier each one gets since they are all in a way in the same pattern...

Answer 3

For a child, all languages are roughly equally easy to learn. Once your brain has adjusted to the sounds of a particular language, though, another language is easy or difficult according to how close it is in terms of phonology, vocabulary, and syntactic rules to the one you already know.

For an English speaker, French is fairly easy to learn. The sound stock is similar, the amount of inflection is similar, and there's a fair amount of common vocabulary.

In contrast, Chinese is relatively difficult for an English speaker to learn. Chinese makes tonal distinctions that English simply doesn't make, words are inflected very differently, and there's virtually no common vocabulary whatsoever.

Answer 4

My experience tells me that languages are easy when the student is really motivated to learn it.

For example, if you are offered a job in a place you really want to be, and you do not speak the language spoken there, it will be way easier for you to learn it than it is to another person who cannot find a reason to learn that language.

Answer 5

Study. The more you study, the easier the language is for you.

Answer 6

poopon all day long