<p>I'm looking to teach myself a new language. I take French in high school (AP this year), and was wondering what would be a good language to try and teach myself. I tried to use my dad's old German textbook, but I found that fairly difficult to teach myself without the help of an instructor. I've also slightly dabbled in Italian (mainly learned numbers). I saw that someone recommended the website LiveMocha, but I found that to be absolutely useless. I looked at the Arabic lessons on there, and it didn't even bother to try and teach the alphabet, it just jumped right in to vocabulary. </p>
<p>What language do you recommend, and how do you recommend learning it?</p>
<p>Spanish would probably be the easiest.</p>
<p>The Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese,Catalan) are all pretty easy relative to other languages. </p>
<p>I left out Romanian, because it is has a large Slavic component and is a ***** to learn on your own, as well as French and Italian since you already touched on those.</p>
<p>If you are trying to learn a language quickly I’d go for Spanish and Catalan. While they are distinct languages they build on each other pretty well.</p>
<p>Spanish is a really easy language to learn</p>
<p>German. You already know English and both of them are Germanic languages.</p>
<p>I know it’s not Chinese.</p>
<p>I actually didn’t find Chinese to hard but have taken 8 years of Spanish and haven’t got a single thing in my brain. It really depends on your interests in culture and language. I don’t like the Spanish/Latin American culture much but i find Asian and northern European cultures fascinating.</p>
<p>Maybe Latin? If you can teach yourself Latin, you can teach yourself any other Romance language.</p>
<p>I find Chiese extremely hard!</p>
<p>Latin actually wouldn’t be that hard to teach to yourself at first, but eventually you’d hit a point where you really NEED some kind of guidance.</p>
<p>I tried German, but like I said, I really struggled trying to do that one solo. As for Latin, I was really looking for one I could actually speak. I might try Spanish. Thanks for your help!!</p>
<p>I’ve used LiveMocha and I can’t say I think it’s as good as it could be.
Easiest I would have to say is American Sign-Language. You don’t have to listen to someone talking at you for pronunciation. I know you might have been looking more for a “cultural” kind of language, though.</p>