Easiest Language
Although this may be off topic, just wondering, why is Spanish considered the easiest language to learn of all the languages in the world?
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For me, one of the reasons is that the words sound exactly what they look like. So you will never have to ask someone "how do you pronounce this word?". The grammar is also fairly straight forward.
It is a fantastic language, but I do find it difficult to learn and apply the grammar. However I am a very good "ESPANGLISH" speaker and even in the early days of learning, I could communicate( in a certain way) with the present tense and one past tense and a lot of guessing for vocabulary..........I have moved on of course and can communicate reasonably well in "proper" Spanish.........but still learning. As said above, the pronunciation is fairly easy and straight forward unlike English.
At 70 years old, I am quite proud of my achievments with Spanish, and of course being an older person I find I am excused a lot by native speakers, especially as I smile a lot!!!!!
In my opinion the Scandinavian languages are much easier than Spanish (and the other Romance languages)
They just sound more difficult.
Wow, I never heard it was the easiest. It DOES happen to be the easiest foreign language I´ve personally studied, but I don´t know if it´s the easiest. Grammar wise, English is probably the easiest (but then, the spelling is a nightmare). It doesn´t seem easy to me, but then again, I can´t think of anything easier, other than performing brain surgery in a runaway bus with bad shocks, so who knows...
The easiest language to learn is American Sign Language. There are only a few grammer rules and the words and pronunciation is all visual. I could communicate well after two semesters. But after not using it for 20 years I have lost almost all of it.
For Spanish like already said spelling and pronunctation are easier than English. But the verbs are a struggle in Spanish but easy in English. At least that is the way I see it.
I have heard this said by English speakers, but these are the people who learn a few words and maybe three basic tenses and think they know the language, when in fact they are unable to communicate effectively. I´m sure the people who study the language at an advanced level, such as many here on this forum, will tell you that at this level of becoming true communication - Spanish can be very complicated, and it can be.
Advanced learners of Spanish here do battle with the numerous forms of "se", imperfect and pretérito past tense, conditional and subjunctive tenses, and gender agreement every day while native English speakers don´t even know how to use subjunctive in their own language - the same people who constantly repeat the word "get" because they don´t have the capacity to remember verbs.
Basically, those people who say Spanish is easy to learn don´t know what they are talking about.
I have never heard that before. All I can tell you it's that it is rich, melodic, romantic, and it is spoken by almost half a billion people all over the world.
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Check out that link, it explains why Spanish is considered easy.
If you think about it globally romance languages have got to be the easiest to learn, if only because they are so similar and there are so many people who already speak one Romance language.
Additionally, Spanish is the third most spoken language in the world. Thus it is easier to get contemporary sources of Spanish if you are not in a Spanish speaking country.
I personally think Spanish is very hard, but it may well be the easiest of the languages for even an English speaker to learn. Well, actually, I think it depends, I suspect any germanic language would be easier to learn for me than Spanish, just because the sounds when spoken are very similar to English and I have poor hearing. I'm phenominal at reading but terrible at listening to natives speak (non-natives, however, or natives who are trying to speak very clearly because they know I am learning, are easy to understand).
My spanish teacher said it has not been invented but could be and should be written. The perfect universal language.
A language with no irregularities, no duplicate tenses (preterite, imperfect and many more), and no masculine and feminine.
English speaker have a easier time learning Spanish since English has many cognates.
I agree with all of responses. Spanish is rich and beautiful language but it is, in my opinion, complex. The easiest language that I have had any involvement with (except for one little detail) is Chinese, Mandarin Chinese specifically. There are many Chinese spoken languages but they all use the same written language. Oh, and that little detail? The tones.
