What is the easiest language to learn?I speak English.?

Okay, first I'm going to suggest some issues that most new language learners don't realize, then I'm going to suggest a language for you.

Learning a new language requires effort, plain and simple. Some languages are easier than others however. Here are some ideas many second language learners don't normally realize that should help though.

FIRST: Completely eliminate idioms when you speak. We use a LOT of phrases that are not understood in other countries, and they use ones we don't understand. Examples: Get to first base. Flip the switch. Hitch a ride. Hit the road.

Put yourself in the place of a new learner of English and ask yourself if you would really understand the meaning of 'hit the road' when you heard it, or would you litterally try to 'hit the road'?

Even between England and North America, for example 'knock someone up'. In North America it means get someone pregnant. In England it means knock on their door. So you can see how embarrassing it might be should you stumble on an idiom that means something else.

SECOND: Realize that it is not ALWAYS a one-for-one word exchange when translating. Some languages can express an idea in as little as one word compared to a few, and vice-versa.

Also, many languages don't use the Subject, Verb, Object sequence that English does. Some are S-O-V or V-S-O, etc.

Hand in hand with this, understanding that the idea being expressed is what's important, not the way it's said. Just because the sentence wasn't constructed the way we would have said it doesn't make it wrong.

THIRD: Pronunciation can be improved by reciting the names of things you see as you walk about, and holding conversations with yourself in the absence of friends to practice with. (Warning! Don't do this in the vacinity of mental institutions.)

LAST: I cheated. I learnt the worlds easiest language first and now I find I understand English better (my native tongue) and I'm in a better position to learn more languages. I've provided a link below to better explain this.

That language was ESPERANTO. It is designed such that you MUST understand sentence structure, which helps to understand other languages. It has 16 gramatical rules... with NO EXCEPTIONS!

I frequently make this claim; "If you can't learn Esperanto, you can't learn ANY language."

Plus you end up with a multitude of Esperanto friends; oh the burdens we bear.

Not to understate it of course, but listen to and read as much as you possibly can, whenever you can.

Immersion, immersion, IMMERSION!

I listen to Esperanto music all day long, just to tune my ear to it.

Any second language makes learning a third easier because you acquire a feel for the differences that other languages might have. Esperanto is the logical choice as the second language because it demonstrates linguistic principles better than most, but more importantly, you can learn Esperanto in months instead of years for any other tongue.

Contrary to what you might hear about it, Esperanto has about 2 million speakers as of about 1995, and with the growth of the internet that has probably doubled by now. You can hook into some of my other answers to get a feel for how useful it is.

I'm amused by the 'not a true language' comment that pops up from time to time. One Esperantist once made the comment 'Esperanto is not a true language like a car is not a true horse and buggy'. It serves the same function as a language and it works. Very well if you bother to look at all the places it's used.

The first points should help you master another tongue, regardless of whether you learn Esperanto or not.

Of course will and determination are required no matter what language you learn.

Research and draw your own conclusions.

Good luck!

Ĝis!

Spanish and French are probably the easiest popular languages to study.

One of the languages from around England...some of the English or Norweigan dialects from islands between the two, or Dutch, might be easier.

But it really depends on what you find most difficult in a language. Is it memorization of vocabulary, or is it grammar patterns?

If it's vocabulary, the closer the language is to English, the better.

If it's grammar, that isn't necessarily so. English went through a period (after the Norman conquest, when the literate upper crust in England were all speaking French) of simplification, where it lost or diminished the importance of a lot of the grammatical features found in other European languages. Cases, for example. And if it ever had gender, it was completely gone after that.

Basically, it's possible for someone to find Chinese easier to learn than Spanish. It depends on how your brain works.

Hi. I speak English, Italian, French, Spanish and German.. It sounds like a lot but I grew up in Monaco and learned English from my British mum, French in school and Italian from my dad and also school. As a teenager I spent 4 years in high school in Spain.. as for German i have been learning for 2 years.. In my opinion the easiest would be Spanish and Italian.. once you have mastered the feminine and masculine verbs, past and present tense and a little vocabulary it's pretty simple.. :)

By far the easiest language to learn is Esperanto. It is fully used around the world, has no exceptions to rules, spelling and pronunciation are an exact match, much of the vocabulary is very familiar to speakers of English, German, and the Romance languages. Once you have a good grasp of Esperanto, learning another language is much easier than it would have been before.

My first language is Romanian , the easiest for me to learn was English and then Spanish , Spanish is really really easy to me, French is hard, Italian is easy because it just similar to my own language.

So Spanish , that's the easy one

I think Chinese is definitely not the easiest to learn, but it must be the most necessary for us to learn. We in the West need to make more of an effort to understand China - after all, we’re surrounded by stuff that’s made there! Check this site to learn Chinese http://www.hellomandarin.com/

I think that only you can make that decision. But if you already know a few words of Spanish/French why not start there? There's a lot of free/easy stuff out there to help you, you just need to get up and do it! :) Try http://www.spanishpod101.com/

Cutie,

I love languages too. :)

If I were you I'd expand on the languages you already have some familiarity with... probably starting with spanish.. Wait until you become conversational with one and then move on. I'm working on my french. I already speak spanish as my "native" language.

Come and learn Kurdi or Farsi.

These are the best and easiest languages u can learn in this area (Midleast), I speak both of them.

u can ask me anything, anytime about these languages.

i speak english too.

and i started learning french 3 years ago and i find it quite similar to english.

and also spanish, thats quite similar to french and english.

i would go with those two and once learning those a bit better go for italian its similar to french.