what is the easiest language to learn except English that helps me find a good job and well-paid?

Answer 1

I would say master your own native language.

Since you didn't indicte what preference job or what nature of job you are looking for, so master your own language 1st is your no.1 priority.

Before you can venture afar, you must start from somewhere close to your heart. ^^

I'm used to be pretty poor at English but the offical language of Singapore is mainly English. I had to brush up my standard of English just to prove that I'm good enough to handle a multi language job.

My current job require me to know English, T. Chinese, Thai and Malay but I am only able to understand Chinese and English. The rest of the paperwork is usually done by the respective offices in the region and send to me only for processing. So knowning your native language is important for basic communication.

Answer 2

I think it depends a lot on what type of work you are most interested in. If you want to work in America with other people, then Spanish would probably be very beneficial to learn.

If you are interested in working in business, I remember reading an article awhile back that said that Asian languages such as Korean and Chinese would soon be highly beneficial to learn in a business setting considering so much trade will be going on between the US and these countries. This might be particularly true considering China is set to have the highest GDP of any country in ten years, topping America.

Someone mentioned Arabic, and I do know that there are many government jobs available at the moment who are looking for Arabic translators. I have a friend who is learning for that reason. Not many people in America speak Arabic, so demand is pretty high, and chances are you would have pretty decent job security.

In terms of ease, Spanish would probably be your best bet. Compared to any of these other three, it would by far be the simplest. Chinese would likely be the most difficult because it has a very complicated writing system, as well as the fact that it's a tonal language, meaning that the same sound changes meaning depending on what pitch it is spoken at.

I would suggest looking around in your area at job openings for a few different languages, just to get an idea of what's available. After that, you could try looking through some textbooks or maybe some simple basic language websites on the internet. Try to pick something, however, that interests you. Nothing helps learning more than motivation. If you find Spanish boring and don't want to learn, then it won't matter that it is the easiest. Finding something that you find interesting will probably be the best thing for you.

Hope this helps. :)

Answer 3

Awesome! So you're considering becoming a linguist? That's really cool.

OK... Easiest language to learn would be Spanish, but there are so many Spanish-English speakers out there you probably won't get paid much.

Chinese is supposedly going to become a valuable language to learn, but it's difficult, and there are many Chinese-English speakers already.

I know that Japanese pays very well, if you can find a job. Someone once offered my mom 35$/hour and she wasn't even looking for a job. She also got paid 70$ an hour part time for a while. I know other people on the west coast have found finding jobs for Japanese/English speakers to be easy. It's not an easy language to learn, though.


It seems to me that all of the easy-to-learn languages already have tons of people learning them, so it won't be easy to find a job. Also, all of the really hard languages to learn are ones that not many people speak, thus there's a greater demand for work, and they pay better. I guess you'll have to make a little compromise... Anyway, no matter what language you speak, if you're in the right location, you'll probably eventually get a job for it; just don't expect them all to be full-time, though.

Answer 4

well, technically English isn't the easiest language to learn. Since, it is so dependent on grammar, but anyways Korean is consider to be one of the most easiest language to learn. Chinese is quite difficult since there are a symbol for pretty much every word and Japanese tries to imitate Chinese characters. The Korean language is nicknamed the "morning letter" because anyone can learn Hangul (Korean name for Korean) since its easy to learn because it can be put together with 10 vowels and 14 consonants. >> 8000 different sounds. Hangul is 7 times faster in computer operations ability than chinese or japanese =D. The American literacy rate is 79 percent while Korean is nearly 0 percent.
A Korean keyboard is divided between vowels and consonant making it easier and faster to learn to type in Korean
Also for more info please watch these videos that I listed as my source ~.^
well, as money goes, many companies are investing money to make the Korean language more suitable for the 21th century. so, Korean probably will not help you as of now unless you decide to move to Korea.. (I've read that if your a English teacher you get better paid and live better in Korea than America..) or in the future (hoping D:) anyways for a job its probably going to be Spanish or a computer language or something.

Answer 5

Speaking another language will prove an advantage to you no matter what job you take. Along with some other private firms/companies some of your options are: Interpreter (Obviously) Working with some branch of the Government Perhaps an embassy, or customs etc A language intstructor CIA... Having a degree in another area might be helpful to you as well.

Answer 6

you should learn indonesian or any countries that has big population. indonesia has 220 million people.
I have long list of reasons why but I don't have much time

Answer 7

Java

Answer 8

Chinese and or Spanish - two of the most spoken in the world.

Answer 9

spanish.

chinese is not at all an easy language, the same goes for arabic...

Answer 10

alien language so you can get a job as a moran