Easy to learn languages

George   Sunday, December 08, 2002, 11:05 GMT
What are the easiest languages for English-speakers to learn?
Kevin   Sunday, December 08, 2002, 13:10 GMT
The Germanic Languages:

North: Icelandic, Faeroese, Norwegian, Norn 18c, Swedish, Danish.

East: Burgundian, Vandal, Gothic 16c.

West:

German High: Yiddish, German.

German Low, Old Saxon: Afrikaans, Dutch, Flemish.

Old Frisian: Frisian.

Old English: Northumbrian-N. dialect-lowland Scots, Mercian-Midland dialect-Modern, Kentish, West Saxon-s. dialect-Dorsetshire.

Regards,

Kevin
Julia   Sunday, December 08, 2002, 15:01 GMT
Whatever you are interested in and what fits into your timetable ! :-)
Just have fun !!!
Clark   Sunday, December 08, 2002, 22:11 GMT
The esieat languages are French, Danish, Spanish and Norwegian.

And in general terms, the Romance languages are the easiest, followed by the Germanic languages.

Kevin, you, ahh, want to get your point across with all of the same postings? :-P
matt   Friday, December 13, 2002, 00:08 GMT
i agree with clark. spanish is perhaps easiest, followed by french or danish and norwegian. dutch is also pretty easy for english-speakers to learn, though the dutch already speak english perfectly. after that, i would say italian, followed by a distant german (english-speakers really don't get grammatical case very easily).
Clark   Friday, December 13, 2002, 01:25 GMT
Matt, I think that a lot of people think that since French pronunciation is hard, they often think that the grammar is hard. I have studied both Spanish and French, and I think that French is grammatically easier. They are both logical languages in a grammatical sense, and what makes French easier also is that a lot of English expressions are the same in French.