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Easiest language to learn...
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What is the easiest language to learn (from personal experience, or from what you've heard)???
I've heard that Spanish is pretty easy to learn. Is it? I wanna learn another language pronto.
I've heard that Spanish is pretty easy to learn. Is it? I wanna learn another language pronto.
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Beside that one I am not really sure, it all depends on where you come from. For me other easy languages are the Scandinavian languages, followed by German and those of similar origins.
but i imagine french is just as easy.
I had taken a year of Spanish, in my freshman year of high school, and I thought it was very hard, but maybe it was just because of the damn teacher, because we both hated each other, or maybe it really was hard, or maybe it was just me.
people who took both usually said that spanish was easier, but the spanish exams were harder to compensate.
don't know about other languages, except polish, which is hard as hell unless you have a second tongue. bet they all score LOADS in scrabble though.
i reckon either german or auslan
English is actually one of the hardest for non native speakers to learn.
As for other languages, I reckon German is easy to learn if you're only doing it to a basic conversational level, but if you want to go further than that I think it gets quite complicated with grammar.
I think French is actually a difficult one to learn, there are so many exceptions to the rules you need to get a feel for the languages rather than learn it from a book.
And as for Russian.......... just don't go there! :crazyeyes
I want to learn Polish next.
Oh, I did Italian GCSE, that was quite easy to pick up - if you know a bit of French or Spanish it helps.
German grammar is too confusing, and even though French grammar is as easy as spanish, it's not phonetic so it's waaay harder to speak.
Or u could make up your own language and then it would be as easy or as hard to learn as u want to make it....:rolleyes: sorry!
bloody aimsir laithreach and faisteanach!! arg. horrible language.
It is as a person begins to move beyond the basics that it becomes a bit more difficult than some other languages, like French. So I'd say, Spanish is very easy if you want to master pronunciation, reading, and conversation basics of a foriegn language relatively quickly.
While I find French basics a bit more difficult, mainly due to pronounciation, I'm told that it is easier to move from a basic speaker to an intermediate/advanced speaker in French than it is with the Spanish language.
I'm told that if you just want to learn a language so that you'd be able to understand it and speak it, but not necessarily write it or read it, Japanese is easy with its pronunciation being not too far from Spanish. However, there are more things that will probably trip up a student whose native language is not Asiatic than would Spanish trip up a student whose native language isn't a Romance language.
Really? Thats pretty much the opposite to what ive heard..I guess its different for different people and nationalities..I have a greek friend here at uni who speaks about 5 european languages as well as arabic and hes currently learning chinese (yes i hate him too) and he said english was the hardest to learn other than chinese.
Im currently learning korean and its pretty difficult to get my head round a new alphabet.
I have definately found German easier to learn than French, and I dropped French after year 9. Friends that have continued with French to A level seem to have slightly harder exams and more work to do!
Spanish seems the easiest to learn, and I would have thought that English was hard to learn, as there are exceptions to all the rules.
Grammar-wise English is one of the hardest to learn.
But most people find it the easiest due to it's huge exposion all over.
Btw, good to see you posting again
Good to be back Settled into uni now so will prolly be posting more.
What course are you doing?
Mr_Wobble