The easiest language to learn
Easiest language
English- no cases, no gender, no word agreement, arguably no grammar. The language is everywhere and can be heard, absorbed and used anywhere. Short words, verbs change only in the third person. Native speakers are very forgiving of mistakes as so many people speak it as a second language. This makes English the easiest foreign language to learn.
Easy to learn
Italian-No cases, easy clear pronunciation, vocabulary of derivative of Latin, therefore the vocabulary has congruencies through out the Indo-European Latin influenced world.
Spanish – similar to Italian in that the grammar and pronunciation is easy, also ubiquitous, everywhere, but Spanish people talk fast and you can get lost when trying to understand.
German- logical grammar but does have cases and long words as word building is important.
French – sixteen tenses and some grammar twist and a specific pronunciation that makes it a little harder the Spanish.
Esperanto – Although I respect the people who created this, I do not consider this a living language and should not be considered when ranking the Easiest language to learn.
This is in contrast to the hardest language to learn
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54 responses to Easiest language to learn
I am so glad that Aunt Meme finally brought to everyone’s attention that English solely appears as the easiest language to learn because so many people USE it. Actually in the US, citizens abuse the English language daily with their grammatical errors, mispronunciations & utilizing the wrong words.
English isn’t the easiest language in the world to learn. Even native speakers confuse words that sound similar or have similar meanings.
English is the easiest language to learn anywhere. I grew up and just knew it. I didn’t take any special clases like these other people. When I started school they just taught me how to speak it better and then how to spell properly. Gee, whats so hard. Listen to Mommy and you will master it. Whats wrong with the rest of the world, why didn’t your mom’s teach you English?
Yes, I’m kidding.
Are you kidding me, our language makes no sense to anybody but us. We do everything backwards and we put letters in we don’t use. Our vocabulary is so big we had to repeat sounds because we ran out of words. At 44 years old, with a college degree, I still misspell words. I’ll bet we are the biggest user of “spellcheck”. The rest of the world probably laughs because they can’t understand why we can’t friggen spell
Well, they laugh until they realize they have to learn this bizzare language to make any money, then we just say, it’s so easy. Thank god I learned it in diapers, because like most Americans I try to learn other languages, but have never really mastered one. If I had to learn English from another native language, I’d be screwed.
I’m engaged to wonderful woman from Ukraine. She speaks Russian and English as well as her own Ukrainian. How she did that boggles my mind and everytime I do something manstupid, I have to remind her that, honey, you speak 3 languages, I can barely use my own. Yes you are smarter than me. I think she is starting to realize I’m just an idiot, but thats ok as long as loves me. I can run a business and somehow make a decent living during a recession and keep 30 people employed, but ask me to communicate with her mother in Ukrainian and holy gee wiz, I’m lost.
Cute and smart, I like that about her
Can you imagine trying to teacher her such things as “Whatever” or add the F word in the middle and even with her superb soviet education, she gives me the strangest puzzled look. I say things to my friends like, “Come on shortbus get a clue and stop being a retard”. I am speaking English, which she teaches as ESL by the way, and she still finds things we say so bizzare. I was thinking of letting her listen to some of the Ebonics spoken by our bothers of african descent, but I think she would just look at me and say “What the …, is that English?”. “Yo cuz youz hooptie is dope”. How about my favorite, “I Axed him to give me the s%&T” Talk about making a grown woman lose it. Not only have we (English speakers) completely bastardized basic human communication, but we decided that wasn’t good enough, we even bastardized it more and added slang that makes no sense. Growing up a surfer I’m still afraid to tell her about words like Gnarly, kewl, Wussup and duuude. Good thing she didn’t meet me when I was 22. Poor girl would have either given up right then, or be calling surfer terms with an eastern European accent (that could be kinda cute though).
Just my humble opinion.
I totally disagree with this. English is nowhere near the easiest language to learn in the world? What we lack in difficult grammatical structures we make up for in cultural variations and dialects. Ebonics for instance is incomprenhensible to great deals of English speakers and most of the time people from the north struggle with people from the south just to understand simple pronunciation. We have one of the largest vocabularies of any civilized language on Earth and our slang is almost beyond the realm of being able to be learned. There is just so much it would take an entire lifetime to touch the surface. Much like learning Chinese characters.
I’m not so sure about English, I can see your point when talking about the grammatical gender, the gender aspect of *some* other languages is probably the most ridiculous aspect of those languages. The availability of learning material may be an important factor, but English is still a very difficult language. Also, Brevlo is much much easier to learn than Esperanto (just a side note, even if you don’t consider them “living” languages).
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