What's the easiest language to learn? An what's the hardest?

>>73853615
ur mum is the easiest

>>73853615
>easiest language
esperanto
>hardest language
depends on your language but probably some chinese dialect

>>73853803
>esperanto
he said language, not meme language

English is the easiest for westerners because youre always exposed to it

>>73853615
easiest is the one closest to the language you know best. probably afrikaans for u.

>>73853615
>An what's the hardest?

that meme language in africa with around 130 phonemes

English because exposure, Slavic languages are all easy aswell

This fucking African click language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZlp-croVYw

Objectively, Malay/Indonesian is the easiest language.
The hardest one is harder to determine, I think Sanskrit is a good contender.

It's relative to your native language, or languages you learned from a young age.
Here's a chart for native English speakers:
>http://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/language-difficulty
We can safely assume that if Language X is difficult to learn as a native Language Y speaker, it's going to be similarly difficult for native X speakers to learn Y, it's going to be mostly reflexive.
Therefore, since Dutch is a Category 1 language for English, English should be Category 1 for Dutch people.
Most of the chart should hold up in your case, Dutchman.
Although I could imagine something like German could be easier for you.
Another neat reference is our language family tree.
>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/IndoEuropeanTreeDielli1.svg
Generally, the more subdivisions you have to jump from one language to another, the more difficult it'll be to learn.
Hope this helped.

>>73854128
Interesting. Only strange thing is that polish/czech/serbian/finnish is cat 4 but romanian/swesish is cat 1.

German is indeed very easy to learn, I speak it pretty good from just watching tv and having classes at school. I've seen tons of anime but still I don't understand any japanese apart from some words.

>>73853615
>The hardest
Slovenian.

>>73853615
easiest: english
hardest: estonian, finnish, hungarian

>>73854399
Romanian is a Romance language, but looks like it got hit with the Slav stick.
So it's going to be in the same bracket as things like French and Italian for English speakers.
It'd probably be a bit harder though, since it looks like it got hit with the Slav stick.
Swedish is also in Germanic group and shares a lot in terms of structure.
All those other languages are in another subdivision making them much harder since you move outside of a major group.
I tried a bit of Irish Gaelic and it was disorienting for me.
Finnish is straight up not even an Indo-European language (it's Uralic), it's super alien to me, but very interesting anyway.

>>73853615
easiest:
French, like their women
hardest:
chink + why would you want to talk to any chinks

>>73853615
>What's the easiest language to learn
The one you learn first.

>>73853615
>easiest: american english
>hardest useful: hungarian, czech, slovak, finnish, icelandic, norwegian, chinese (writing only, I heard grammar is pretty simple)
>hardest useless: african-tier native languages (especially those without written form)

>>73856424
>why would you want to talk to any chinks

culture

For an English Speaker, not including irrelevant ones like Scots or the Papuan languages
>Easiest: Afrikaans
>Hardest: Japanese or Arabic

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>>73856424
>French, like their women

>>73857601
for a country with like a bazillion people, your flag is suprisngly rare.

its because you are a nation of scammers my man, we range ban you.

>>73854399 (Checked)
Serbian, Polish and Czech are all really fucking hard for foreigners to read and speak, and all three have seven gramatical cases.

Finnish is pretty simple pronounciation wise (to me, since Serbian is also phonetic) but it has 15 cases and since it isn't Indo-European it doesn't 'work' the same way, so you'll have to spin your head to understand the concepts. It also has a pretty unique vocabulary, meaning you won't see foreign lonewords that you may already know.

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Hardest language? Finnish, Chinese? No, no, the ultimate language to learn is Sentinelese.

>>73857726
no you newcunt, its because africans post on nairaland.

>>73853615
English is the hardest because it lets you understand Americans.

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>>73853615
Norwegian is the easiest language for English native speakers to learn

I really don't know if Icelandic language is the hardest, but surely would be in a TOP 10.