What language is easiest for a native English speaker to learn? Why?

You’re probably going to get answers here talking about the languages mo…

Cult of Linguists • 113.8K followers Languages and Linguistics   What language is easiest for a native English speaker to learn? Why? Oliver St John, Writer. Songwriter. Programmer. Soccer fan. Much more. Answered June 1   You’re probably going to get answers here talking about the languages most closely related to English, and answers talking about languages which are generally simplistic in... Read more »     Is Ukrainian the only Slavic language which has different words for "language" and "tongue"? Michele Gorro Gorini, studied Mathematics at Università Degli Studi Di Milano-Bicocca (2016) Answered April 21, 2023   Let’s see what Google can tell us about this: Bosnian/Croatian: jezik, jezik; Bulgarian: ezik, ezik; Czech: jazyk, jazyk; also has řeč for language, Wiktionary says;... Read more »     What language is easiest for a native English speaker to learn? Why? Ayala Choma, B.A. English Literature & Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University (1976) Answered June 7   After age four, what makes a language easy or hard to learn is how much it resembles the language(s) you already know. Everything else is trivial by comparison. So in the ca... Read more »   Read more in Cult of Linguists

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