what is the easiest language to learn??

Question

i want to learn another lang. that is easy and fun and posibble similar to swahili (if not simallar) then oh well
thanks!!

Answer 1

If you think you would like to learn Swahili, by all means begin because there are probably more materials on that language than any other African language save Afrikaans and Arabic.

On the other hand, American Sign Language is very very easy to learn and you can use it in interesting jobs such as special education, court interpreting, medical interpreting, and business. Once you've mastered one sign language, there's British Sign Language and other world sign languages.

Answer 2

Well I don't know of an easy language related to Swahili, but a close language that is related to English would be Dutch. Both are in the Germanic family and share many similarities. You should be able to pick up the pronunciation pretty easily as well. Other languages that I've heard that are not too bad would be the Scandanavian languages like Norewegian, Danish, and Swedish. The added benefit from learning one of these is that they are all for the most part mutually intelligeable, so you will be able to talk with and person from Norway even if you were to learn Danish for example.
Most importantly I would advise you to look into the language with the culture and people that interest you the most. There is no point in studying something that will only bore you to death. Good Luck!

Answer 3

Many people did not read your additional information about wanting a language like Swahili, so I'll give you languages similar to Swahili. (Do you know Swahili? If not, why not learn Swahili first?)

Anytime you want to find languages that are similar, you should see what language families they are a part of. For example, everyone knows that French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian are Romance languages.

Swahili is a Bantu language, so if you want to learn a similar language, you simply need to find another language in the Bantu family. The most popular languages in the Bantu family aside from Swahili (which is spoken by the most people) are Zulu and Xhosa, spoken in South Africa.

Here is a list of the most common Bantu languages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_languages


If you are truly interested in a language, then it will be easier for you to learn it than languages you are not interested in, so don't be intimidated by languages that people say are "difficult". It is possible to learn any language, if you really want to.
Good luck!

Answer 4

Well, German is the closest of the major languages to English. The closest is actually some minor dialect, I believe in or around Belgium.

I found Spanish to be fairly easy after studying French. With Spanish, once you learn the basics of pronunciation, you can pronounce anything in the language whether or not you understand the meaning yet or not. Spelling is very simple because basically one letter has only one sound associated with it, as opposed to English, which is quite the opposite.

Why not try a difficult language? Maybe spend a couple decades learning how to write thousands of Chinese characters?

Answer 5

I think the the easiest language is sign language. this is because if you don't know the sign then you can spell the word. There is also so many different ways to sign a sentence that the grammar will most likely be right in one form. Another reason that it is good is that every thing is in present tense so you don't have to make sure you use the right tense, all you have to do is say how long ago it was or is going to be (ex. Store go to i 2 days past). Another reason it is easy is that you don't have to worry about pronouncing the word right.

Answer 6

All languages have some difficulties but generally speaking, Spanish, Norwegian, Hatian Creole and Malayan / Indonesian (They are almost the same language) are considered some of the easiest in the world to learn. Malayan and Indonesian are good introductions to a non-European type of language which are not hard at the same time. What's more, there is future potential in Indonesian and it could become a major language in Asia and the Pacific region some day.

Answer 7

How about a language that can help you learn other languages?
Esperanto!
16 gramatical rules... NO EXCEPTIONS!
Also, it's completely phonetic.
Stay with me here because it's quite long but worth it.
Believe it or not, Esperanto represents the best chance for the survival of the multitude of dying languages since it's purpose is to provide an alternative to any one National tongue to the disadvantage of others.
Consider if you will, Esperanto is an easily learnt AUXILIARY language. This means that myself and that German, Japanese or Korean fellow over there needn't sink a lot of time and effort into learning each others mother tongues if they don't wish, where whose ever tongue we settle to communicate in will hold the advantage in any discussions; since the likelihood of having a mastery of the second language will be remote at best. Each partner has exerted a similar effort in order to communicate; a linguisticly neutral hand shake if you will. Yet we are still free to talk in our mother tongues when and where we choose.
Further, I am now in a position to visit just about every country in the world and with the help of my new found Esperanto speaking friend (2 million plus) learn of his / her culture and language. This second facet is possible because in learning Esperanto I now have a firmer grip on linguistic principles. I will provide a link below on the benefits of learning tertiary languages after Esperanto.
I frequently make this claim and I live by it...
"If you can't learn Esperanto, you can't learn ANY language."
However, if it is Culture you desire, then you've no need to look much further than the Internet. In music there are Folk, Jazz, Opera, Rock, Hip Hop, Rap, childrens' songs, etc. In literature there is multinational translations plus original works. The yearly Esperanto Congresses are a play ground for young and old alike for interaction.
There are many people who have a negative image of Esperanto because they assume that it intended as the SOLE world language, which is as far from the truth as you can get.
Nobody would feel forced to learn it, especially if they've no desire to leave their comfort zone.
The fact is that it's use is expanding exponentially thanks to the Internet. The last educated guess puts the number of functionally fluent speakers at 2 million plus and another 2,000 native speakers (those that were born to an Esperanto household; yes they exist).
Esperanto is simply a tool to allow those that might otherwise struggle to learn a new language, the option of expanding their horizons.
Finally, there is currently $600 million plus a year being spent on translation services at the UN, and a similar amount in the EU, because no one nationality wants to loose the prestige of owning one of the 'working' languages in each of those institutions. This a huge waste of resources that might otherwise go to feeding and housing those less fortunate. A single working language, easily learnt (less than a year to become fluent) would certainly go along way towards that goal. The Universal Esperanto Asociation (UEA) currently holds observer status (class B) at the UN and UNESCO. So there is some movement towards this goal.

Research and draw your own conclusions.

Ĝis!

Answer 8

which language is easiest for you depends what your native language is. For example, Finnish is extremely difficult, but if you are hungarian or estonian, it is very easy. For persons whose native language is english, the easiest to learn to read and write is spanish; but speaking is something else. Spanish has one sound the trilled "r" that english doesnt have, and if you cant trill your "r" you will be spotted out at once as strange. Other languages are very easy to speak - all the sounds of such languages are within the english phonetics. An example is islandic, or hawaiian. So what;'s easist is from two perspectives: easiest to pronounce, and easiest to learn the grammar and structure.
Japanese is very difficult structurally but it is very easy to pronounce. Arabic is extremely difficult to pronounce and also quite difficult to learn its structure. Spanish structure is easy.
So is Italian, that is, for english speakers

Answer 9

Hey, generally the easiest language to learn is the one you grew up learning. Also, linguists will tell you that it's almost useless to try and learn a new language after puberty, because you'll never be quite as good at it than if you had started to learn before puberty, or maybe it was just that you'd never lose your accent.

erm, the easiest languages to learn anyway, would be one closley related to your own language, so I'd, as a native english speaker, probably try to learn a Romantic language, or maybe german, or something else closely related.

Answer 10

Macedonian
http://www.languageresourceonline.com/languages/learn_macedonian.html
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/macedonian.htm