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| COF Senior Member United States Joined 5612 days ago 262 posts - 354 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 80 01 June 2012 at 6:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd probably say Swedish. Grammatically it's like a simplified version of English with mostly Germanic vocabulary. Once you've learnt a few basic principles, you can form sentences in much a similar manner as you form sentences in English, so the learning curve is not that steep.
Although technically Afrikaans is probably the easiest language or certainly one of the easiest, for all intents and purposes it is pretty much a Dutch creole, sharing 90% of its vocabulary, so realistically I would include it under Dutch, which is obviously a lot harder to learn than Swedish. Edited by COF on 01 June 2012 at 6:56pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4417 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 2 of 80 01 June 2012 at 6:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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esperanto
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4488 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 3 of 80 01 June 2012 at 7:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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lol Afrikaans a Dutch creole, it hasn't got to be any funnier
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| COF Senior Member United States Joined 5612 days ago 262 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 80 01 June 2012 at 7:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Afrikaans is to Dutch what Jamaican Patois is to English. It's definitely not a language in its own right. Edited by COF on 01 June 2012 at 7:07pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4488 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 5 of 80 01 June 2012 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Okay, you can stop trolling now.
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4815 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 6 of 80 01 June 2012 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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My answer, part jest part serious, is the language about which the learner is most passionate.
Sure, there are close languages, but sometimes the very closeness itself can be confusing. There are times that it's great to be able to compartmentalize the languages so you've got two different things. As for Swedish, I relied on that a lot, even though I don't know the language, when I first lived in Finland. I found, oddly, that the more Finnish I learned the less Swedish I understood. Now, I find it incomprehensible and more guttural sounding than either German or Russian. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4911 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 7 of 80 01 June 2012 at 7:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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COF, the more I read your posts, the more I think you're just bored and have a need to
be noticed. Tiny hint: yes, you'll get noticed, but you won't be taken seriously. Trolls rarely are. R. == 13 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6378 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 8 of 80 01 June 2012 at 7:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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