What European language has the easiest sounds?

Guest   Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:03 pm GMT
What European language has the easiest sounds? and please don't tell me "all sounds are equally difficult" cuz you know they're not, so what language would you say has the easiest sounds?
Milton   Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:05 pm GMT
Macedonian.
Guest   Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:06 pm GMT
probably Finnish (which is not an Indo-european language) and modern Greek
Guest   Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:08 pm GMT
is macedonian a European language?
Guest   Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:15 pm GMT
Sure, it is Macedonian is a slavonic language similar to Bulgarian
Guest   Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:21 pm GMT
Spanish.
aesticus   Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:45 pm GMT
Estonian - enormous amount of vocals AEIOUÕÄÖÜ and almost all possible combinations of AE AI AO...EA EI, etc. And as if that wasn't enough - three degrees of phonemes length! Many I know have described it as sounding like a language from a fairytale.
Guest   Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:55 pm GMT
ok man I was asking for the one with the easiest sounds, not the hardest.
Guest   Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:57 pm GMT
Easy can be difficult sometimes.
Guest   Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:04 am GMT
Must be Italian. Anyone can master the pronunciation in like...2 minutes...?
Guest   Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:05 am GMT
I learnt Italian in one month. It is really easy.
Ian   Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:57 am GMT
I agree that Italian is the easiest one. At least for me whose native language is Indonesian.
Guest   Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:01 am GMT
Italian is easy for everybody.
Xie   Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:03 am GMT
What about Esperanto?

It's perfectly phonetic, but I guess I could never have learnt how to speak Esperanto without knowing English sounds. /ch/, /sh/, /r/ and a couple of common Latin letter voiced consonants (b, g, d) are all difficult (not for me, but others).
Guest   Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:07 am GMT
We've had this discussion before and Spanish if way easier than Italian, get over it.