Hello,

Someone could tell me what's the EASIEST language except their own language.

I guess it depends also in your native tongue, as an Spanish speaking person I learned English because i liked it since i was young, then later in my life i learned French and a little bit of Italian and those languages i find them easy to learn but because of the Latin common roots of all of the mentioned languages, then i started to learn Norwegian and i liked it a lot too but because of the pronunciation i find it a little bit different to learn, not more difficult just different.

Also i guess it matters if you like the language or not in my case I never liked German and that's the reason im not looking forward to learn it , though English and even Norwegian have some kind of link with German but its a personal issue.

hope it helped.

Cheers.

Were it so easy, you wouldn't have so many mistakes...
cheers

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Firstly, I don't think there's such a thing as an "easy" language, never mind a language one could describe as "the easiest". All languages are complex and are the result of centuries of use, experimentation and history, which is why the most common verbs in most languages I know tend to also be the most irregular!

It is logical to assume that if your native language is from the Germanic group of languages then another Germanic language would be easier to learn, however, that has not been my case. I am a native English speaker and have had classes in German, French, Spanish and Italian and have found the Latin-based languages much easier than German, perhaps because they just appeal more to the way my brain works, which I think, ultimately, is the key. What is logical to one person is not necessarily so to another. I also agree with Demonrob that liking a language is also an important motivating factor when it comes to mastering it!

I also second Valenarwen's comment to S3callyx; if English grammar were so easy then there is surely no excuse for the plethora of grammatical errors in your post, which includes particularly poor use of articles and prepositions! Shame on you!

a language can not be stupid; but, some people --for instance those who think that a language can be stupid--- are stupid

i think the easiest language to learn is spanish because i have been studying it for a few weeks and it seems to be simular to english.

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"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr.Seuss

I'm an English-Spanish translator -native Spanish speaker- and lemme tell you, you couldn't be more wrong... Spanish grammar is impossible

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"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too" - Voltaire

Estoy totalemente de accuerdo contigo!!

I started learning spanish and I love it! but its grammar's gonna drive me mad!

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I once read a summary of four categories or tiers of languages, arranged from easiest to hardest in terms of how difficult they are for a native English-speaker to learn, summarized thusly:

Tier I: Western European / Romance languages (Spanish, French, German [?], Italian, etc.)

Tier II: Eastern European / Slavic languages (Russian...)

Tier III: Arabic and many African languages

Tier IV: Any Oriental language (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.)

Like many people in the US, I studied Spanish in high school and it remains the only language I actively speak at all well; however, my studies demand that I at least learn how to read French, German, Biblical Greek and Hebrew, and a handful of other Semitic languages. It's gotten easier in the past few years as I've learned how to approach a new language (i.e., the sort of questions to ask of it, the parts of speech that it may or may not contain, syntax and so forth).

After Spanish, French is relatively easy; after Hebrew, Syriac is a piece of cake. For any wholly new system, it just comes down to time invested in the effort.

If not the easiest, i do believe that English is the precisest of all languages due to the large spectrum of its vocabulary. Only 30% of the words are pure English the rest being from other languages. therefore its learning will always be much easier because at some point you are likely to find words that have been borrowed from one own's mother tongue. Certainly its grammar is not hard to seize, it's the pronounciation and the many usages of its ample vocabulary what's challenging, but if there's a universal language that is undoutedly English. I despise esperanto, since it's a language which has no social impact nor evolves as a tool used by some humanbeings in their daily communication.

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look into my eyeballs, there thy beauty lies, then why not lips on lips since eyes on eyes?

In the English language everything goes. Which is nice because you can spend as much time as you like improving your grammar and collecting words and phrases for later use. English is free.

As a linguist, I would confirm there is no such "an easy language to learn". Learning a language requires thousand study/practice hours until one person is able to speak/read/understand it, and it is almost impossible for someone learning a foreign language to master it in a bilingual level. In fact bilingualism is an Utopia.

I am Spanish native speaker, I have studied (and I won't ever finish studying)English, French, Chinese and Arabic, and as they use different systems you can't compare them.

No matter the language you choose, it won't be easy to learn! Good luck!

PS: by the way I think this is a forum about translating(En-Es/Es-En)so if you want, next time move this kind of thread to the grammar or culture stuff!