What is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Really interested to see which languages you think are the easiest to learn. Anyone got any thoughts on this?
French and Spanish are probably the easiest.Japanese and Chinese are supposed to be the hardest to learn..
French and Spanish are easy? Maybe at the most "basic" form.
It's like people saying English is easy. Or that they speak "basic" English.
PhilipMarc Compared to a lot of languages,French is comparatively easy.Try learning Chinese.
French is probably the easiest to learn which proves how bad I am at learning languages. 10 years doing French lessons and all I can remember to say is hello, how are you
Lol. Same. My French is basic to say the least.Apparently English is really hard to learn too.
You're so right. You're not the only one who struggles to get formal language lessons to stick. What one change could be made to make formal lessons more effective, do you think?
kfe202 I think they could make it more fun. I remember when I was about 7 my teacher was having a hard time teaching me French so she decided to try to teach it to me in a song. And I did learn the whole song and for a couple of years knew quite a few phrases in French
Spanish or Italian I reckon. For me (I'm French) English is the easiest to learn
That's such an interesting perspective. What is it that makes English easier for you than other languages, do you think?
There really isn't an "easy" language, the best you can go for is grow up with a language and it sticks with you.
I grew up watching English, Spanish and Portuguese and from that I've never forgotten any. However, I once knew French and still somewhat do, though since I had stopped using I eventually lost it.
German, Japanese and Cantonese are some of the hardest languages to learn and even more to be fluent at.
If I had to choose a language to learn it would be either Spanish or Chinese. Spanish would be easier I would think over Chinese.
You're so right. Spanish would be easier than Chinese just by dint of being written in the same alphabet as English. What is that calls out to you about these two languages?
I'm currently learning Spanish and know a little French. My hubby learnt German and is struggling to separate the German words with Spanish and I do the same with French...would hate to try and learn a tougher language 
Sorry to hear that your husband is struggling with language learning. What one thing could you try that might make it easier for him to separate out the different languages?
Cool and thanks for letting us know about Babel. What is it that calls out to you about Spanish?
I found German really easy. We had to learn French in school, but got to try German for one lesson and covered a lot of the basics (counting, introducing myself, saying where I lived). It took us at least a term to cover all that when we did French! I also found Japanese easy, but I know mandarin and Cantonese, so thats probably why
At my school it was compulsory to take 2 lanuages we all had to do French then had to choose between either German or Spanish.I choose German & found it so easy, so much so that my language teacher tried very hard to push me into doing lanuages at advanced level but I just wasn't interested. I kinda wish I had now. I can still remember some basics but have forgotten vast majority of it. I remember even less of French.
I've always found bullshit to be one of the easiest languages , everyone , everywhere seems fluent in it at some point !! 
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