Summer Language

I have a four month long summer, and my friend suggested the wonderful idea of learning a language during my free time. I already have taken 3 years of Spanish (hated that shit, dont remember any of it) and a little bit of American Sign Language. When I was looking into easy langauges to learn, Esperanto came up. Does anybody have information on the language? What I can find is not very helpful

why you shouldn't learn Esperanto:

http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/

that website is shit. sage this thread into oblivion

learn chinese, you will gain a great understanding in those 4 months

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Language_Learning_Difficulty_for_English_Speakers

here is a list of languages ranked by difficulty.  find one that interests you and check your community college summer catalog.

you could be fluent in norwegian within 4 months

>>6
Not counting the thousands of dialects.

>>7
I thought there was just Bokmål and Nynorsk.

"Welcome to a course in Norwegian. When you have completed this course, you should have enough knowledge to speak, read and write the language rather well. In order to learn a language properly, you must take action, you must do something. So I suggest, after you've learnt the basics, that you look up some simple, easy Norwegian literature, and start reading. Knowing what is easy is not easy if you don't know any Norwegian at all though. If you know somebody who is Norwegian, they might be able to help you to some nice reading. I will also try to put up some links to nice, easy articles here later."

this is why wikibooks are free

>>8
Don't worry, everybody understands "standard østmål", or whatever it's called. Making them speak it to help you understand is a different matter, however.

>>8
Bokmål and Nynorsk are the official, written languages (that ppl occasionally even try to speak. Urg.)
The dialects are a gazillion. And often hard to learn properly for outsiders (including other Norwegians). Which is why they tend to keep their dialect for life, even if they move to another part of the country and stay here.
But yeah, you can get a decent hold of the dumbed-down version often taught in classes, in a few months. That's what dumbed-down versions are for, anyway :-)

>>2

JBR's article was long ago debunked by a *true* expert in Esperanto, Claude Piron:

http://claudepiron.free.fr/articlesenanglais/why.htm