What is the easiest slavic language for an english speaker to learn?

Question

Notice that Iam not asking which slavic language would be the most useful,Iam asking which is probably the easiest.

Answer 1

They all have some grammatical features that make them very different from English, such as different forms for perfective and imperfective verb stems, grammatical gender, a complex case system, and complex consonant clusters.

Half of them use a different alphabet, so these would be "harder" to learn (Russian, Belorussian, Ukrainian, the Serbian half of Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian). You are left with Polish, Kashubian, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, the Croatian half of Serbo-Croatian, and Sorbian.

The spelling systems of all of these are very straightforward and you can generally pronounce them the way they are spelled (once you learn that in Polish "prze" is pronounced "pshe", for example).

Take your pick, they are about about equally hard at that point.

LATER EDIT: I just read Brennus' response about Bulgarian. It seems that Bulgarian nouns are not declined for case as in other Slavic languages. I wasn't aware of that. However, he makes it sound like the whole linguistic system is simpler. Just the nouns are simpler in that respect. The verbs are just as complex and there is a whole 'nother alphabet you have to deal with. I would say that if Russian is a level of difficulty of 100, then Bulgarian would be 85 (subtract 25 for the loss of case, but add 10 for the Cyrillic alphabet). Polish and Czech would be about a 90 (just -10 for using the Roman alphabet).

Here is a good website about Bulgarian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_language

Answer 2

Easiest Slavic Language To Learn

Answer 3

Today, Bulgarian would be the easiest Slavic language for an English speaker to learn because it is basically analytical in structure much like Modern English. Russian, Polish and Czech are still highly inflected. Almost the same for Serbocroatian.

A little known Slavic language that would have been relatively easy for an English speaker to learn is Polabian, extinct since about 1750. It was spoken in about 10 villages in North Central Germany. It had been strongly influenced by its Teutonic neighbors: Low German, Danish, Swedish and Dutch. Some linguists consider it to be the only Slavic language that could be considered a "Western European " language. The other Slavic languages are all "Eastern European."

Answer 4

Bulgarian

Then Russian

Answer 5

Perhapst the one that uses a Latin alphabet. Just throwing out anwers.