Which language is the easiest to learn?

Your mother tongue, of course...the language you learn as a child on your mother's lap. I bet you don't even remember putting in efforts to learn it. Cheers and happy Mylotting

Chinese!? for you and i...O(n_n)O Don't you agree with me? (*^__^*) It's just a joke. In my mind,i don't think there are the most difficult or easiest language to learn. If you can practise the language which you want to master more,natural,you'll find it easy to learn.On the other side,if you have no environment to speak,you'll feel it so difficult to learn well. Do you think so?

That is a difficult one to answer my friend, because I have only learnt and studied two languages, my own which is English and French, so obviously for me English would be the easiest as it's my own mother tongue and I think most people would answer their own mother tongue's language!

English might be the easiest languages to speak because it is universaly accepted language and not that much hard.There are only 26 alphabets in English language whereas most of the other languages have much more alphabets as compared to English.

I think Indonesian is the easiest language to learn. It hasn't complicated tenses and grammar like in English or complicated alphabet like in Chinese or Japanese. You just need to combine SVO (Subject-Verb-Object) to get a complete sentence, you can even change the pattern to OVS or VSO if you want while the meaning of the sentence is remain the same. BTW, the child in your avatar is very cute.

I think English remains the easiest language to learn,probably due to the number of people that speak it,which somehow makes it easier to get help about it...but the easiest language might also be different for individuals and might also depend on one's location.

We only learn three languages here in Malaysia, namely Mandarin, English and Malay. Among these three, I feel that the easiest to learn in the Malay language. It's using the same set of alphabets as the English language. The pronunciation is fixed and thus it's effortless to memorize it. The sentence structure and grammar are not complicated as well. Once we know the meaning of the word, we could start reading and writing it.

I found that French was easy to learn but I think it is because the English language has so many words from French.Wasn't it easy for you to learn Mandarin because it is close to Cantonese? I think if the language is close to your first language then it is easier to learn. When I was studyibg French in school, my teacher told me that she could speak Spanish and French and knowing those two helped her understand Italian.

No one language is easy to learn as every language has their own strength and words that need to be used in the correct way. I have learned mandarin with characters but I seem to loose out on the characters but can speak the language fluently and will not be lost in china if I happen to go there one day. Now English is not an easy language with all its grammar and spellings to bear in mind when we are learning this language. But fortunately I have been exposed early to this language so it become like flesh and bones to me. Maybe I speak and write better than most french or italians as English is not their main language spoken. I think the most easy and known language that can easily be adapted by all is sign language. You need no learning of this language but there are schools for teaching this language. When you are in a foreign land where English is an alien language you automatically become proficient in sign languages which they can easily be understood.

Hello youless. I have only learned three foreign languages, English and Japanese. I learned Japanese by myself, but German by our teacher at college. I found it hard to learn Japanese because it was not that easy for me to remember how to write the words. As to German, I have already returned what I learned to my teacher. But I will never forget about English as I use it every day. Of the three foreign languages, I think that English is the easiest for me to learn. I love English and consider it to be a very beautiful language. Take care, youless.

well, definitely English.. English is not my primary language but unfortunately, it is the one that i good at... LOLz.. happy mylotting

[b]Okay, this is my last post (well, unless someone responds), but I just have to ask you something, Youless. Some of my Mandarin-speaking pupils have told me that in China (Beijing) they learned how to read English well, but were not taught pronunciation! Is this true? And if so, why not? To me, it seems strange to learn one & NOT the other! I even had one family beg me to return to China with them to teach there, & were even willing to pay my ticket & house me there! They told me I would be in great demand as a teacher! I've sometimes regretted not taking them up on their offer.... But what do you say? Do they just teach the written word there? Maggiepie[/b]

[b]As a tutor of ESL, I have to say, English is not not NOT one of the easiest, but one of the hardest, if not THE hardest to learn. If I hadn't learned it as a birth language, I doubt I'd ever understand it! The reasons for this are too numerous to list here! Maybe Japanese is the hardest; I'm not positive. As for the easiest, that would depend what your birth tongue is. If you have a Latin-based birth language, then any other from that linguistic family is probably going to be easier for you than some far Eastern language, or something from New Zealand or Australia, perhaps...& the reverse is true, as well. Hazarding a guess, & going from my experience, I think Spanish is closest to English. French the furthest (Even though French is one of the roots for English!). Any Germanic language is going to be a bit harder, perhaps for the average English speaker, due to the grammar, though I had no problem with it. Just my tuppence! Are you planning to learn another tongue? If so, I hope this helps! Maggiepie[/b]

haha,i think it really depends and different people with varied backgrounds such as locations, interests and experiences all can make a difference. as for you and me both chinese, chinese may seem more easier than others, but if it comes to a foreign language, japanese which to a large extent familar with chinese maybe more accessible for us to learn. however,as english nowadays plays a really vital role in the communications all over the world, more and more chinese have emphasis on it and it now has been taught since kindergarten to college, which accompanies with thousands of books, vedios and special english training schools and so on, all of them,in my opinion, have make english not that hard to learn, donot you think so? wish you good luck, youless.

The easiest language must be the one we learn when we first learn to communicate, whatever it is. My first language is Finnish and I had no problem learning it as a child, but if someone from another part of the world wants to learn it, it is not easy at all...the grammar is really complicated.. Spanish is easy to pronounce when you know how to do it.... it is very consistent. English is easy too, but there are sooo many words if you want to learn it 100%.. And it is not consistent to pronounce. So, for a child - any language is easy to learn. Our brain works that way - and a few grown ups still have that ability to learn..

Latin is the easiest to learn, but it is not spoken language. Spanish and German are the easiest languages to learn.

I have a nephew that is tri-lingual (three languages) and he says the easiest is English. Of course his English is 'Queen's English' so the slang and such that we use in everyday speaking trips him up. As a fact, believe it or not the easiest language to learn is Korean. The reason why it is a 'new language' and is structured correctly so that there are no exceptions to the rules. Yes to us in America the symbols look funny but again they make sense once you get to know them. I know just a very very little Korean from a girl I dated a long time ago but what I remember from what she taught me just made sense. Thanks Zelo

hmmm.... i think any foreign language is hard to learn. it only gets easy if you have someone to talk the language with. during my college days i took up spanish twice but have no one to talk the language with so eventually i forgot how to speak the language. when i worked at japan i also learned to speak the japanese language and the fun of it my sister is married to a japanese so up to now i have someone to speak the language with so i never forget it. that is my view to this.

Its English I think because anyone easily pickup this language also what about ya??? have a nice day.

English is easiest to learn because there are many many speakers around, and a language is learned best by listening to people speaking it. If you ask me, a language is easiest to learn only when there are less "irregularities" in its word constructions. As you have pointed out in one of the responses, the past tense forms in English pose a difficulty because of the irregular verbs like go-went-gone; do-did-done and the like. But then one must admit that these are not many only a finite number. Other wise all other verbs' past tense forms and past participle forms being similar adding -ed to the verb in present tense makes it simpler. Further, in English there are no separate future tense forms- reducing the variety in learning. An artificial language like Esperanto would be the easiest language to learn, where the grammar rules are reduced to a minimum, as to be fully enumerated in a small booklet. Of course vocab has to be large in any language to be of use. There is no short-cut to building word power. I might find Chinese in particular and the Chinese family of languages in general difficult to learn because of the large number of characters for scripting, and the importance of intonation in bringing out the shades of meaning. But being a lover of languages I may enjoy that too. Buut I am speaking for the multitudes