Which language is easier to learn?

I wonder what you think Spanish is typical of ... Spain? Paella? Titian? the Alhambra? you'd be right... also Don Quixote

Spanish and |Italian are both descended from Latin, as are French, Romanian and Portuguese. As far as difficulty is concerned, they are much the same. If your family came from Italy, you may want to go there and visit relatives someday, so it would be good to be able to talk to them - I'd go for Italian. I don't understand why you can't take 2 languages - is it something to do with the educational system in your country? In my high school [ UK] we did 3.

German grammar is a bit harder than Italian, but not much, and then you've already begun it - take both!

have a look at Italian grammar here:

www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian

and see what you think

I learned Latin and French at school. Italian is basically Latin words, slightly simplified and strung together with French grammar, so I have always been able to guess-read it. At the moment I am translating a book from Portuguese about an Italian physician which has lots of quotations in the original Italian. I can understand these, albeit with frequent use of an Italian-English dictionary: it just slows me down a bit. However for anyone who knows no French or Latin, I would not rate Italian as a really "easy" language: it is certainly harder than Spanish (the grammar is more complicated and it has many more irregular verbs).

As I started high school in 1940, I decided to teach myself German at home. I found it far easier than French, partly because it is historically related to English. This is why most irregular verbs are so similar and why, for example, you emphasize words as in English by just saying them louder, whereas in Italian (or French or Spanish or Latin) you have to change the whole word order.

By the time I left school in 1945, my German was as good as my Latin, but I had to work hard at my French for several years before it was good enough to allow me to enter university (where I did Spanish with a Portuguese minor). German is also easy to pronounce and recognize when spoken and it is easy to spell.Do not be put off by those people who tell you that German is hard: so often they are Francophiles or are motivated by political prejudice. It may be the language of Hitler, but it is also the language of Heine, Mozart, Kafka and Karl Marx (all of them Jews).

Whatever you already have the background in will be easier. If you already learned some German, pick that one up. But really, you're going to better learn whatever you have the greatest interest in and put the time and effort in to learn.

Italian and Spanish are very similar languages. German is completely different. I think Italian is easier to pronounce since German uses some guttural sounds that many English-speakers are unfamiliar with.

Hope this helps.

OK, I get you have a decision to make, but it's nothing to have an existential crisis over, geez. Take Italian already. It's what you're obviously more interested in it anyway.

Italian. German is not an easy language.

Italian , for sure . But is it useful for you . I think learning Spanish , French , would be more useful in the world of today .

Although Kim is Korean, Chinese would be a good choice. It isn't easy, but the way the world is unfolding it would probably be most valuable to you as an adult.

"Spanish is too typical"? What do you actually mean? Learn to express yourself very clearly in English before trying other languages.

If your not familiar with a fully-inflected grammar (as in Russian and Classical Latin), Italian will be easier.