I'm planning on learning a few languages, and I want to start with something easy. Thanks for reading.
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Anonymous2011-09-18 17:54
It depends on your native language, but I have heard French for Native English.
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Anonymous2011-09-18 18:54
If your native language is English then you should find Spanish and French rather easy.
If you're looking to build a good foundation and a way to teach you a lot about grammatical rules then start with Esperanto. It's a synthetic language that is incredibly simple. It's pretty much useless aside from building a base.
What's the easiest language to learn?
How long's a piece of string?
Or do you mean "easiest for people with English as their first language"?
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Easiest for whom? You need decent-or-better knowledge of at least one European language first.
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Anonymous2011-09-29 8:22
I found Hawaiian and Maori to be pretty easy.
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Anonymous2011-09-29 12:22
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Whatever language you're learning, it will be a challenge. Especially if you don't know much about languages to begin with.
Anyway, Swedish or Norwegian might be good choices. They're quite similar to English, so you will probably find them easier than something like Japanese, for example.
For a native English speaker, German=ic languages are the easiest, on the whole. Of the, Dutch is reputed to be the easiest ( a few weird sounds, but bloody simple!) German and the Scandinavian languages (Norwegian being the best bet and most understood of the three)
After then, the Romance languages are the easiest. In order - Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese. Main Romance languages anyway, noone learns Romanian.
But it does depends what you speak. Languages come in groups, so a subsequent one from a similar group is a lot easier to learn. Even then, learning Japanese after leaning Tagalog is easier as you pick up learning tips and 'how' to learn langauges.
I'm multilingual. I grew up trilingual (English, Italian and French). German was easy for me to learn, but Japanese was the easiest to learn. Start by learning the kana and learn how they each sound without romaji. Then, learn the meaning of basic words without romaji (i.e., あお= blue). After that, learn verb conjugation. Finally, learn sentence structure. Eventually you'll be able to speak Japanese :) It took me a little under a year, but I can do it, and so can you! :) ご幸運を祈ります
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Anonymous2011-11-18 22:48
Spanish certainly has the most resources to learn for a second language if you live in los Estados Unidos.
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Anonymous2011-11-19 4:50
Strictly speaking, Esperanto.
But if you want something that is useful in the real world, go for Spanish.
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Anonymous2011-11-21 15:55
Learn Esperanto solidly for three months and you will be fluent, once you've done that every other language will come a lot easier. If you're already at least bilingual don't waste any time with this step, but based on your OP you're looking for your first secondary language so it should definitely be Esperanto. This isn't the only utility of Esperanto, but if you are serious about learning languages then this factor alone should make you want to take up Esperanto immediately.
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Anonymous2011-11-26 5:22
Esperanto provides a pretty good base for learning the intricacies of language grammar. Esperanto is my grandmother's hobby and she taught it to me when I was like eight. I had completely forgotten it by the time I wanted to learn it again, but I've relearned a lot of it.
Yes. Even though there aren't that many speakers (a few million), those speakers are spread all around the world. Wherever you go in the world you'll be able to find someone who speaks it, speaking of which, if you're into travelling you can make use of Pasporta Servo (Google it).
Basically, it's well understood now that you will learn a language much quicker if you learn Esperanto first. Let's suppose that normally it would take 4 years to get to fluency in a language, you would more likely be better served spending 6-12 months with Esperanto, then 2 years with your target language to reach the same level.
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Anonymous2011-12-03 7:03
Spanish is harder than english.
French is harder than spanish.
Both portuguese and italian are similar to spanish.
German is definitively harder than all those.
Esperanto is definitively easier than all those.
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Anonymous2011-12-04 16:38
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>Esperanto is definitively easier than all those.
This is because Esperanto was created to be an easy-to-learn language for speakers of any language.
/TMYK
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Anonymous2011-12-04 17:18
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Anonymous2011-12-05 4:29
Learning esperanto has just become my new goal, how long do you think it will take to be able to read, write and speak esperanto?
I'm not multilingual, and naturally english is my mother language