What is the easiest language to learn and the hardest?

Answer 1

It depends on what your native language is and how young you start. It is actually best to start as young as possible (especially if your native language is English) I have a friend who taught all three of her kids Spanish from a very young age and they are all fluent in Spanish and English.

I have also heard that English is the hardes to learn (probably because most English speaking people speak incorrectly)

Answer 2

All new languages are rough to study, however sure, Chinese is a specifically rough one. This is frequently on account that it does no longer percentage Latin roots with English. Another rough detail of Chinese is the tone marks. Words that sound almost always the equal can imply very exceptional matters relying on how they're reported. Not to say that you just additionally ought to study each the pinyin alphabet and the conventional characters. That being mentioned, when you don't seem to be fearful of a assignment, move forward and study it!

Answer 3

The simple answer to this question is whichever language is closest to your own. For a speaker of Spanish, for example, Portuguese would probably be the easiest to learn, since they would only have to learn a minimal amount of new vocabulary and grammar.

For an English speaker, it is a bit more complicated. English doesn't have another language which is as close to it as Spanish and Portuguese (except for maybe Scots English). Although a West Germanic language, and therefore closely related to Dutch, Frisian, Afrikaans and German, English underwent some changes that make it quite different from these languages. It has also borrowed a large amount of words of Latin origin via French and other sources.

For an English speaker, I would say that Afrikaans (Dutch-based language spoken primarily in South Africa) would be one of the easiest languages to learn. It is closely related to English and has lost much of the more difficult grammatical forms which, for example, German has retained, such as having three genders. Afrikaans, like English, only has one gender (English- "the", Afrikaans- "die").

Even though i know english.. I think english is the hardest langauge to learn

Answer 4

It all depends on what parts of your own language you think make sense and what parts don't. Everybody says to me that Spanish is the easiest, but I'm most comfortable trying to learn Japanese. As far as the hardest, my opinion is Turkish, but I could be wrong; the Greeks have 6 letters for a small e sound.

Answer 5

i'm italian so for me the easiest language is Spanish and the hardest is german. i only speak italian, french and spanish (english a little bit...and i'm not good at all!!! )

but i suppose that italian language is very difficult (for italian people too!!!) and..i'm very lucky! *^_^*

Answer 6

Depends what your native language is. I'm going to assume it's English in your case, so the easiest languages for you would be:
just about any Romance language, Swedish, Dutch
German is slightly harder than the ones I mentioned above.
the toughest for an English speaker:
Arabic, Mandarin and Cantonese

Russian and Japanese are somewhere in the middle -- harder than French or Spanish, sure, but not as much of a nightmare as Arabic or Chinese.

Answer 7

easiest has to be some of the romance languages like spanish and italian

harder ones would include mandarin, russian, arabic

Answer 8

I'm not sure what the easiest is, but I've heard that English is actually the hardest to learn