Easiest language to learn?

[Whatsthepoint]

even the grammar is so simple...

for example:

verbs, Makan (eat), Minum (drink), Bunuh (kill)

for Past Tense, you just have to put "telah" before the verb... ie. "telah makan" (ate), "telah minum" (drank), "telah bunuh" (killed)

for Present Tense, you just have to put "sedang" before the verb .... ie. "sedang makan" (is eating), "sedang minum" (is drinking), "sedang bunuh" (is killing)

for Future Tense, you just have to put "akan" before the verb ... ie. "akan makan" (will eat), "akan minum" (will drink), "akan bunuh" (will kill)


Ali is eating - "Ali sedang makan"
Fatimah is eating - "Fatimah sedang makan"
I am eating - "Saya sedang makan"
You are eating - "Anda sedang makan"
They are eating - "Mereka sedang makan"
We are eating - "Kami sedang makan"
He is eating - "Dia sedang makan"
She is eating - "Dia sedang makan"

Is malay an artificial language?

 

[Whatsthepoint]

Esperanto.

 

[Wyatt]

Esperanto.

Haha, that can not be considered a real language. It has absolutely no cultural significance nor any other characteristics a language should have but words. And the reason behind it all of its existence is that it will only connect European language speakers. :raging:

But, it is probably the easiest. :blind:

And it sounds weird. +o(

:rollseyes

[Edit: By the way, 100th post and I spent it complaining about Esperanto. XD]

 

[north_malaysian]

I think a different between Malaysian language and Indonesian language is :
If Malaysian language is British English, Indonesian language is American English.

Benar atau salah hal ini, brother north malaysian ?

I dont know about Indonesia, but at school we use British English... I've seen students being scolded for using American spellings..

 

[north_malaysian]

Is malay an artificial language?

Maybe?

the "Ancient Malay" language was heavily influenced by Sanskrit and was used starting the 7th century. Sanskrit was also the official language of a powerful pre-Islamic Malay empire called Srivijaya (based in Sumatra)...

I dont know what the language they used before 7th century, but my lecturer said that there is only 3 words originally Malay, as others were imported from other languages... the words are ubi (cassava), babi (pig) and padi (paddy).

the pre-Islamic Malay used "Kawi script" with is originated from Sanskrit script...

During the Sultanate of Malacca (15th century), when Islam became the official religion, loads of Arabic, Persian, Tamil and Hokkien words were brought into Malay language as Malacca was a very important seaport in southeast Asia...

Then in 1511 the Portuguese colonised Malacca, in 1641 it was under the Dutch and finally the British came to Malaysia in 1786.

 

[ardianto]

Easiest language to learn ?
Maybe......., English without tenses.

I feel English is easy to learn, but I still have a problem with tenses, because there's no 'past tense' there's no 'present tense' and there's no 'future tense' in my origin language. And in English I found 16 tenses (or maybe more ?).
Sometime I think I'm the only member who speak in 'Broken English' in this forum, and sometime I think other member are laughs when they read my post. But I dont care about that, because they always understand what I'm talking about.
Of course, in the near future I hope I can speak in very good English.

 

[north_malaysian]

Of course, in the near future I hope I can speak in very good English.

ameen...

 

[Yanal]

Easiest to write or speak?

 

[Grace Seeker]

Years ago, in fact so long ago it was before I was born.

That really is a long time ago, Woodrow. :bump1:

Sorry, but it was just sitting there and I finally had to respond.

 

[transition?]

English must be the easiest because nowadays, so many people speak it and it's all over even in a lot of foreign television. It's easy to pick up.
I think in Germany it's require to learn English.

 

[Whatsthepoint]

English must be the easiest because nowadays, so many people speak it and it's all over even in a lot of foreign television. It's easy to pick up.
I think in Germany it's require to learn English.

It's a compulsory subject in most of the world's schools.

 

[transition?]

It's a compulsory subject in most of the world's schools.

that probably makes even more 'easier.' With your parents pressuring you with grades and such. ha. :exhausted

 

[Silver]

English must be the easiest because nowadays, so many people speak it and it's all over even in a lot of foreign television. It's easy to pick up.
I think in Germany it's require to learn English.

Yeah, english is everywhere. I think it is really important for people to speak english. Even though in my school the 1st language taught was french, whenever I needed information for projects I couldn't find anything in french books.
Now it's the same thing in university. All good books are in english and I don't like the french translations! All french medical books in the library are old and their texts are more complicated than the english texts...
English is easy

 

[elee]

I think in Germany it's require to learn English.

No, where did you heard that??

 

[north_malaysian]

It's a compulsory subject in most of the world's schools.

including Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam

 

[sister herb]

This is funny topic. It depends by the person who is study some languages is it easy or not. Some people can learn and understand languages more easy than some others.

:bump1:

For me, one of the most difficult language as arabic is easy; I learnt to write it an one hour. My own language is Finnish and arabic are the most far from each others.



Here is two possibilities: I am genius or I was motivated to learn it.

 

[doorster]

Easiest language to learn?

1. your mother tongue
2. any of its related languages

for example

If your first language is English, it will take you around 30 days of study to be able to speak to and understand Spanish or German or French person, because like ***someone said that English is a badly spoken/mispronounced and misspelt version of French, German and Spanish etc. (or vice versa).

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[islamlover_girl]

yes I think that related languages to ur mother tongue is easier to be learned.
also related languages to a a language u know.

 

[convert]

Spanish is very easy. I haven't spoken it fluently in a few years but I have no doubt it would come back to me in a couple of days.

 

[جوري]

I have always heard from non native speakers that English was really hard to learn:><:

It took me exactly two months to learn English, the rest is just perfecting it and amassing new words.. I'd say it is one of the easiest (but that is my personal opinion)


peace