Anonymous wrote:Don't try French if you can't do Spanish. How about Mandarin? Arabic? Ebonics? Russian?

I think this is the one "mutually intelligible" language with English
I've studied languages from different, unrelated language families. Spanish is simply spoken way too fast. Native speakers sound like a record that has been sped up. The rest of it (reading, grammar and so on) is easy.
The hardest language I've tried is Polish. Grammar is nonsensical.

Don't try French if you can't do Spanish. How about Mandarin? Arabic? Ebonics? Russian?

OP, I hear you. I hate that there are different words for masculine and feminine and can't deal with the fact that there's no logic to it. I just can't memorize all of that. It is honestly a miracle I can speak English with how hard I find languages.

I have learned, or attempted to learn, French, German, Italian, Dutch, and Irish. By far the easiest was Dutch. It’s structurally similar, has many cognates, and when spoken, it even sounds a bit like English. Admittedly I had already studied German in college, so that helped, but, as others have noted, Dutch does fall into the “easiest” category of languages for English speakers to learn. I’d rank Italian the next easiest of the languages I’ve tried, then French and German. Irish is nearly impenetrable for me, but I’m still forging ahead.

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NP - I speak Mandarin Chinese fluently, learned French in school and can comprehend fairly well and speak some Russian since I had a Russian nanny growing up.

I have a musical background which prob gives me an ear for language.

The one language I struggle with is.. Spanish! For all the ease of it, I am absolutely horrible and have no knack for it whatsoever. I can do conjugations in French all day but I just cannot for whatever reason get the sounds of Spanish - is that so weird??

I can even pick up German a bit but alas, Spanish is my downfall

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Spanish is the second easiest behind English.
Italian is like difficult Spanish.
Latin has no life.
German puts the verb somewhere at the end, which makes understanding harder.
Russian has too many S- sounding letters.
Finnish and Estonian are impossible.
ASL for you.

For English speakers the Scandinavian languages are easier than Spanish. Not useful since Scandinavians speak English but really easy for English speakers to learn.

We can tell you know nothing, since you're lumping in Scandinavian languages in one group. Ridiculous. The previous PP is correct.

lol the Scandinavian languages are to varying degrees mutually intelligible snd widely considered to be the easiest for English speakers to learn but okay I guess?

I recommend Arabic. It’s basically Spanish but harder but strangely, I found Arabic much easier to learn and I dont even have Arab ancestry

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Spanish is the second easiest behind English.
Italian is like difficult Spanish.
Latin has no life.
German puts the verb somewhere at the end, which makes understanding harder.
Russian has too many S- sounding letters.
Finnish and Estonian are impossible.
ASL for you.

For English speakers the Scandinavian languages are easier than Spanish. Not useful since Scandinavians speak English but really easy for English speakers to learn.

We can tell you know nothing, since you're lumping in Scandinavian languages in one group. Ridiculous. The previous PP is correct.

Anonymous wrote:Spanish is the second easiest behind English.
Italian is like difficult Spanish.
Latin has no life.
German puts the verb somewhere at the end, which makes understanding harder.
Russian has too many S- sounding letters.
Finnish and Estonian are impossible.
ASL for you.

For English speakers the Scandinavian languages are easier than Spanish. Not useful since Scandinavians speak English but really easy for English speakers to learn.

Anonymous wrote:Any recommendations for another language that I could learn? I felt like Spanish was way too tricky.

What's your goal? Just to learn another language, for its own sake? Or to learn another language with hopes to travel to a country that speaks it? While I speak Spanish, and learned it relatively easily over many years, I actually thought the process of learning German was easier for whatever reason. I don't speak it well at all, because I only studied it briefly, but it was coming to me easier than Spanish ever had. That being said- maybe because I'd already learned one new language, learning another one felt more natural in terms of the process? It could be that whatever language you start with, if you've never learned a language before, is going to feel really difficult.

I've actually heard that Swahili is pretty easy.

Spanish is the second easiest behind English.
Italian is like difficult Spanish.
Latin has no life.
German puts the verb somewhere at the end, which makes understanding harder.
Russian has too many S- sounding letters.
Finnish and Estonian are impossible.
ASL for you.

https://blog.rosettastone.com/the-complete-list-of-language-difficulty-rankings/

Danish or Dutch are in the same difficulty category, but maybe are more similar to English.

What was difficult about Spanish for you and why do you want to learn a language?

Is English your native language?
Spanish and the other Romance languages are very similar structurally, similar base words and also use the same Latin alphabet characters.
German is not a Romance language but is similar to English. I personally find German more difficult to learn but that is another option if you are not into Spanish (or Portuguese / Italian / French).

Any recommendations for another language that I could learn? I felt like Spanish was way too tricky.