What's the easiest foreign language for English speakers?
Posted at 04:31AM Sep 06, 2007 by CarolB
Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are easy once the phonetics are mastered. Afrikaan grammar is so simple it can be learnt in a day. If you lived in Papua New Guinea for 6 months or so, you would be pretty fluent, with only minimal study. German and Spanish are easier than French or Portuguese. Even if you do speak English, if you have trouble understanding locals in Edinburgh or Glasgow, they may be speaking Scots.
Facts or fabrication? The Speaking in Tongues branch on the forum debates the easiest foreign language for English speakers to learn here.
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