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| Dtmon Newbie United States Joined 3583 days ago 6 posts - 9 votes Studies: Georgian, English* | Message 1 of 66 02 February 2015 at 12:14am | IP Logged |
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Out of all the languages you have studied what Language did you personally find easiest and why? What in your personal experience made it easy. Maybe some languages were easier in different ways. I'd love to hear your personal experiences, we all know it is different for everyone.
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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4143 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes  Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 2 of 66 02 February 2015 at 12:32am | IP Logged |
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I've only learned two languages so far, Spanish and Tagalog. Spanish was *much* easier for me than Tagalog!
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4520 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 3 of 66 02 February 2015 at 12:52am | IP Logged |
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Norwegian.
Why? Strong motivation, proper guidance and the opportunity to spend a year in Norway. The force was strong with that one. But this doesn't mean that it was the language I learned fastest or that it's my best foreign language. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| nikolic993 Diglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 3779 days ago 106 posts - 205 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English Studies: Italian, Mandarin, Romanian, Persian | Message 4 of 66 02 February 2015 at 12:56am | IP Logged |
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I don't know about active skills but for listening and reading comprehension, it would have to be Italian, simply because of the ample amount of cognates.
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| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5099 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 5 of 66 02 February 2015 at 3:46am | IP Logged |
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French has been so much easier than German in every way. The greatest difference has to
be in the number of cognates. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6581 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 6 of 66 02 February 2015 at 7:37am | IP Logged |
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Portuguese, obviously, since I already knew Spanish. Unless you're learning Esperanto, genetic kinship with languages you know is going to determine some 60-90% of the ease of learning the language, the lower bound being reserved for languages with difficult writing systems, chiefly Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese.
Hm, though I guess availibility of learning materials can also play a role if you're learning a small and/or seldom-studied language (say, Shanghainese). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4098 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 7 of 66 02 February 2015 at 1:16pm | IP Logged |
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100% subjectively:
English. Because I no longer remember the effort. I can vaguely remember learning a handful of things, and being torn to pieces in a poetry newsgroup at age 11 because I misspelled something, but I can't really remember struggling, feeling bad about making mistakes, or making an effort. Slightly more objectively: Italian. Because I already speak French, I was almost immediately able to read at a level that I struggled with after five years of French classes. It's the cognates. It's also a language that's very easy to listen to, because standard Italian is so well enunciated, but the comprehension is largely thanks to cognates. If I actually studied a Scandinavian language, that would have to be my answer though. I don't study Danish, but I listen to audio-books in Danish and understand them almost perfectly almost all of the time. Even a fair number of the words that are different from Swedish are the same as in my native dialect. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7204 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 8 of 66 02 February 2015 at 2:38pm | IP Logged |
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English was the easiest for me. Almost everyone I know speaks it.
Spanish seemed easier than French. Spanish has regular spelling and pronunciation. It's phonetic. Even my 2 1/2 year old grandson knows hundreds, perhaps thousands of words in English, whereas he only knows a handful of words in German, Spanish, and French. Edited by luke on 02 February 2015 at 7:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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