<p>So I was wondering what the easiest languages to learn are, in your opinion.</p>
<p>Spanish and French. Really, any language that uses our alphabet. The tough ones are the ones that don't: Chinese/Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, etc.</p>
<p>spanish</p>
<p>german</p>
<p>french</p>
<p>not english :)</p>
<p>English. Of course, everything is relative to one's mother tongue.</p>
<p>Spanish sounds pretty easy to learn too. And I've seen way too much anime so to me Japanese appears way easier than Chinese, but I probably underestimate how hard it is to actually learn it.</p>
<p>english not being my first language I have got to say english is a veeeery easy language.</p>
<p>I heard English was a really hard language...like with verbs and stuff ?</p>
<p>well i'm a native english speaker. i find spanish and french easy to learn. I think it might be because of the romance/latin connection that they share. I heard that chinese is difficult because the whole sentence structure is diffierent from the romance languages.</p>
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<p>When compared to other indo-european languages, I don't think so. From a Chinese perspective (they don't even have verb tenses), possibly.</p>
<p>English is difficult for ESL speakers, as it contains multitudes of idiomatic phrases, which can pose problems. Of course, if one is living in the country instead of studying it from another country-or one learns it when one is still young-I suppose these things can diminish the difficulty level.</p>
<p>I agree that French and Spanish are super easy languages. I came to realize this after having taken ancient Greek, a language I am told is taken mainly by masochists and classics majors. Some people just don't know how easy they have it... :)</p>
<p>I pick up bits of languages for fun. I'm by no means good at them, but it passes the time.
German, Spanish and Italian were pretty easy. Japanese (learning mostly in romanji and small bits of hiranga and katakana) wasn't too bad.
I really want to learn Chinese, but don't even know where to start. It looks hard.</p>
<p>To learn Chinese, I'd suggest taking a class. I'd advise against self study. I also think that Spanish is the easiest language to learn.</p>
<p>Japanese tenses changes easily with the rank of the person you're talking to. Speech between teachers and students is very different from speech between friends. That's the only difficult part of the language, IMO.</p>
<p>Chinese is only difficult because of 1) the tones, and 2) the 4500 commonly used characters you'll need to learn and commit to memory. Otherwise, common grammar is very simple. (Note about the COMMON grammar.)</p>
<p>The problem is that there are no classes here. My school only offers Spanish, French and Latin on a regular basis, with the rare course in German, Italian or Greek in the summer. They also have sign language, which I'm taking in the fall.
Is there any other way?</p>
<p>korean is very easy to learn how to read and write.</p>
<p>understanding what you are reading is the hard part.</p>
<p>Take the class at a community college or university.</p>
<p>Homonyms are crazy fun.</p>
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<p>Turkish.</p>
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<p>whats the best way to try to learn german by yourself? i really wanna learn another language but i hate spanish! school only offers span french and latin</p>
<p>I was watching this Arabic show today and it sounds really cool. Has anyone had experience learning this language? What software to use, etc?</p>
<p>Easiest .. hm.. Spanish, Italian, and French. In that order.</p>
<p>I think English is a hard language. When you start to think about it...we have millions of irregular verbs, combinations of sounds/irregular sound, vowel combinations, and homonyms. That's why I like English though: it's easier to play on words, which would be harder in a different language.</p>
<p>Spanish is pretty straightforward.</p>