* Arabic
* Armenian
* Burmese
* Chechen
* Chinese (all dialects)
* Dari
* Farsi
* Gujarati
* Hebrew
* Hindi
* Hmong
* Hungarian
* Kazakh
* Korean
* Latvian
* Lithuanian
* Malay
* Maltese
* Norwegian
* Pashto
* Polish
* Romanian
* Russian
* Slovak
* Swahili
* Tagalog
* Tajik
* Tausug
* Telugu
* Turkmen
* Twi
* Uigur
* Ukrainian
* Urdu
* Uzbek
* Vietnamese
* Yiddish
* Yoruba
2007-04-17 13:26:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
i only know English I'm looking to start learning on of these after i graduate high school this summer
2007-04-17 13:36:57 · update #1
The languages are broken up into groups based on intensive interviews with english students who are studying a second language.
"Easy" Languages
Ratings of FSI students speaking a Group 1 language after specified Periods of training.
8 weeks (240 hours) 1/1+
16 weeks (480 hours) 2
24 weeks (720 hours) 2+
"Hard" Languages
Ratings of FSI students speaking a Group 2-4 language after specified Periods of training.
12 weeks (360 hours) 1/1+
24 weeks (720 hours) 1+ /2
44 weeks (1320 hours) 2/2+ /3
Which Are the "Easy" and "Hard" Languages?
Group 1
French
German
Indonesian
Italian
Portuguese
Romanian
Spanish
Swahili
Group 2
Bulgarian
Burmese
Greek
Hindi
Persian
Urdu
Group 3
Amharic
Cambodian
Czech
Finnish
Hebrew
Hungarian
Lao
Polish
Russian
Serbo-Croatian
Thai
Turkish
Vietnamese
Group 4
Arabic
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
2007-04-17 13:50:13 · answer #1 · answered by 我比你聪明 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a American Born Chinese, I can vouch that Chinese is hard to learn. I was born speaking it but when i tried to teach my friends, the results were terrible. Try to learn a language with thesame characters like French, German, or French. Languages like Japanese, Russian, Hebrew and Chinese will be especially difficult because you are only accustomed to seeing and recognizing out alphabet. French, Spanish, and German will be eazier for you. German is also known so sound a little bit like english when spoken. If you want to use the language functionally, I recommend spanish. It will be very useful in the future. If you want more of a challenge but more use in the future, go with chinese. International business in the future will be with the booming economy of China. After the first language is learned, other languages will come easier. Trust me.
Best of Luck!
2007-04-17 13:46:46 · answer #2 · answered by jonyan326 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English and German are sister languages, while English, Urdu and French are cousins. French and German are beautiful convenient in phrases of vocabulary, however the grammar's one more tale. German grammar is a tad extra tricky than French grammar, and as a consequence could say French is less difficult. Chinese is a entirely exclusive sort of language than English, French, German or Urdu, however it's beautiful enormous global. You'll have probably the most hindrance finding out Chinese.
2016-09-05 15:56:00 · answer #3 · answered by ireland 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on your experience. If you already speak english (and only english) try and go with something that has a similar character set.
Hebrew has a failry basic grammatical structure, and isn't too bad. Russian and chinese are notoriously hard to learn. Hope this helps!
2007-04-17 13:30:20 · answer #4 · answered by Jake G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since you are an English speaker, I would guess that Norwegian would be the easiest on that list to learn.
2007-04-17 13:33:42 · answer #5 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I speak English, German ,and French. Everyone is different. I had no problem learning these languages, but some of my class mates did.
2007-04-17 13:52:51 · answer #6 · answered by suz' 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Hebrew is the easiest language to learn. I love Hebrew and I think you would love it too.
2007-04-17 13:45:57 · answer #7 · answered by lovely Gabbi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Macedonian is the easiest in spelling,
2007-04-17 13:43:24 · answer #8 · answered by smajzer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spoken Chinese ( mandarin ) is very easy to learn, very simple grammer & pron.
2007-04-17 14:12:35 · answer #9 · answered by chloe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋