Whats the easiest foreign language to learn

Id love to learn another language.. Which one is easiest? I have plenty to choose from

Non!!! there all friggin hard lol i cant learn any of the bastards

I'd go with French, Spanish or Italian. And stay clear of Russian, Chinese and similar if you don't want it to be too hard.

spanish and/or french, lot of cognates, probably spanish more than anything.  any of the romance languages (spanish, french, italian), all stemmed from latin and had major influences on english.  maybe even german is ok, but not as easy as the other three. 

 

anything with non-english letters, good luck!

 

No because french is talking backwards you talk in reverse, Spanish hmmm dont know about that, Italian has some right hard pronouced words to come to terms with.

German or spanish shouldn't be too tough. stay clear of chinese, swahili, hindi...

Those are difficulties inherent in learning any language.

You could always learn American-English. Just take the letter U out of all the words and you're done.

German would be the easiest but still fucking hard especially with the long name words, Getting the correct pronouciation is fucking hard!!! i mean when i try talk it to my dad (he's german) he cant understand a word of it lol but to me it sounds fine ... to him it isnt german hahaha

Aparently Russian, Arabic & Chinese are the three most difficult to learn. Or so this fella I met claimed. He's a language freak though. Speaks two handfulls of languages and actually did these three in a matter of 5 years  When I met him he was only in Taiwan for something like a year and he was basically fluent at that time. Hectic.

I wanna learn spanish. So I can speak the native tongue of my fore-fathers. I'd have to learn a few others aswell if I was serious about it but just spanish would do

Pick a language, then go live there for 6 months to a year. That'll learn yuh..... the best way, doesnt matter  where or how hard it is then. Forced circumstance is always the best way to pick it up.

And you get to travel too.

And if you go with Italian (Probably the more interesting of the beginner languages such as French and Spanish etc.) i'd recommend starting here: http://abruzzo2000.com/course/index.html.

Of course if you can afford it, audio CDs/Tapes are the best way.

It didnt really help me when i was living in thailand lol all i came back knowing was the bad swear words and the usual: Hello. Goodbye, Please can i have, Serves you right, No , yes, Down it (as in drink), enough.... lol

oh and: calm down, are you ok, faster, slower, how are you.

Same Danny. I've been in the far east for 5 years now and do you think I've mastered Mandarin Chinese yet ? Have I, fuck ?! I studied for a short while and learnt a few things. Then I quit 'cause I worked so much that I was simply too knackered to study as well. I never picked up the studies again because I get along just fine with what I know. Well, I could be doing much better but I can say what I know well enough from repeating it so many times - Hahaha.

I think if the place we lived at didnt speak any english then we would have learnt a lot more but in thailand most people speak fluent english in the major citys in the villages though non of therm do

I work in an all English environment, so it's not really a place where you pick up much of the language ... and outside of work, you end up mingling with English speaking locals (that push for free lessons all the time) so that's also no good.

Well obviously if your there to learn the lingo you dont hang around the bars and so on in the areas where english is learnt by the locals in order to fleece you eficiently. You go into the hills or the country proper, not the tourist spots.

One of my housemates at uni speaks 5 languages and is training to become an interpreter - he reckons German is the hardest language to master of the ones he speaks (english, russian, french, german and flemish/dutch)


*edit* its 5, not 6 lol

Nah, I didn't come here for the language. It's just a neccesary add on since I live here now.

Thats what I said isnt it mate.

thinking of learning Japanese myself...
i watch so goddamned much anim