Easiest Language to learn

[PJ]

Greetings,

What's the easiest language to learn if you are already proficient in Chinese and English?

[Lucre]

Greetings,

What's the easiest language to learn if you are already proficient in Chinese and English?

if you're proficient in chinese, japanese is quite easy to pick up, if you're proficient in english, some european tongues e.g. german or italian, might not seem too hard to pick up.

[pemberly]

if you're fluent in english, pig latin.

if you're fluent in chinese, one of the other dialects should be pretty simple since the written language is the same. you'll just have to master speaking and some new tones.

[xJadedx]

if you're proficient in chinese, japanese is quite easy to pick up, if you're proficient in english, some european tongues e.g. german or italian, might not seem too hard to pick up.

English doesn't work quite the same as German, so I don't think it's easier to pick up German. German has grammar rules that are in my opinion much more difficult than English (I myself found German to be harder to master than English). Don't know enough about Italian though.

[pemberly]

i agree with you on german. i work with a lot of different languages, and word limits are a pain in german. every german word like like 30 letters long.

i believe italian has a lot of slang as well, and isn't so easy to "pick up." plus, english and italian, or any of the romance languages for that matter, aren't that related.

[sniffles]

I would think that Spanish would be relatively easy for an English speaker to learn, since the grammar and pronunciation aren't too different. Even though English is heavily influenced by Germanic languages, German has a number of pronunciations that are difficult for English speakers to master, as well as some confusing grammar rules.