What do you think is the easiest language to learn?

Question

English doesn't count, as I assume that here on the UK site, everyone's first language is English.

Answer 1

Mathematics is the universal language. Basic math is very easy to learn.

Answer 2

I think Spanish is easiest to learn for native English speakers since the sounds are very similar, and everything is spelled phonetically. Once you learn the pronunciation of the alphabet, the language is very consistent.

I've also studied French, and there is a lot of variation in the way sounds are made, silent letters that aren't always silent etc...

And English is a very difficult language to learn. There are so many exceptions and colloquial terms that I couldn't imagine having to learn it as a second language.

Answer 3

Sign Language

Answer 4

My first language is Persian and I think English and French are the easiest languages to learn. This is because I learned English fluently in two years by only watching films and reading.

Answer 5

Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese are all pretty similar in structure. English Sign Language is the easiest because it's just putting your own language into gestures and symbols, however is only understood amongst a small percentage of people in the U.S. and Europe and wouldn't be very useful if you went to another country or subculture.

Answer 6

French i guess..

hard languages are >

German is hard because of the grammar,Dutch also due to how to pronounce some words

everyone knows some sign language, I use it a lot when I'm driving if someone drives like an idiot..

I guess a language that has words which aren't too dissimilar to English in ways

Answer 7

I was just going to ask this same question in two hours. I've never studied it, but I'd guess German, or one of the other Germanic languages like Scots, Yiddish, Dutch, Flemish, or Afrikaans. Some of them might be closer to English than German.

I'd eliminate the Southeast Asian languages (like Chinese and Japanese) since they don't even have a freaking alphabet.

I'd eliminate the romance languages (like Spanish, French, and Latin) because their verb conjugations are retarded.

And even if you hadn't already, I'd eliminate English since our spelling is horrible. There was a movement to simplify English spelling, but it didn't get very far. You can read about it at:
http://www.startribune.com/389/v-print/story/534351.html

And Esperanto was invented just to be easy to learn, but I don't think it should count either, since nobody really speaks it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

Answer 8

Esperanto, though it is only an artificial language, is considered by some as the easiest language of the world.
If you want to take in consideration only "real languages" I think Spanish and French are the easiest, but their grammars are full of things to remember.
Actually, I don't speak English as my mother tongue and I regard it as the easiest of the world.

Answer 9

Either French or Spanish the English language is the hardest !!

Answer 10

I think that the easiest would have to be (if you are an English speaker as a first language) Dutch and Flemish as where development is concerned they are technically the closest to English.

Answer 11

There's a language called Esperanto that has no irregular verbs and creates words using a combination of prefixes and suffixes. It was invented the late 1870s and was meant to be easy to learn.

If English is your native language, I also think German is pretty easy to learn because they are structured the same way. (English is a Germanic language)