Easiest language to learn?

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Gossamer skye said:
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)
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I would agree with english being the easiest language to learn. I remember the days when my teacher used hand motions to tell me to 'sit down'. I knew all the alphabets but not a single word of english then. Heh.

It didn't take me long to grasp the language and become fluent.

Japanese is a relatively easy language to learn just by listening to it, IMO. Though, it's easier to understand the words than construct sentences.
 
Gossamer skye said:
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)


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Would you say that you use English more than your mother tongue nowadays? Is it Arabic? (your mother tongue).
 
Banu_Hashim said:
Would you say that you use English more than your mother tongue nowadays? Is it Arabic? (your mother tongue).
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Arabic is a very difficult language, I am still struggling to learn parsing as it can get complicated...
but it is a beautiful language, I am certainly grateful that it is my mother tongue.. I don't wish to tell of some of my struggles with it back in the day.. just glad they are behind me and unfortunately I have forgotten a great deal of those Jama3 moanath salim, and the special things of the Quran like idgham, iqlab, izhar and the rest but I can vaguely recall things and can always go back and learn for pleasure.. but it is certainly not as easy as the so-called Latin languages..

and Allah swt knows best

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addendum to above.. I use Arabic and English equally..

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Obviously your English, is way better than the average person. I actually had to look up "addendum"and "parsing", which I now know is "Syntactic Analysis" in linguistic terms. :p
 
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The easiest language to learn is your mother tongue and the languages that u grew up with..
 
easiest language is ENGLISH, with basic foundations of grammer,
non native speakers of english e.g arabs, only find is hard to learn coz theyr grammer and laguage is soo rich that they are unable to find exact translations etc.
 
i honestly think that Bahasa Melayu[Malaysian,Indonesian] is the easiest language to be learned. Honestly. Firstly, the reading/writing is easy as the letters are in Roman. no cases and no apostrophes here and there or no dots above below letters whatever. just plain abc until z. the pronunciation is also easy not like English. it’s like when you read Romaji in Japanese. Yep. it is that easy. so that makes speaking/listening easy too. the spelling of the noun (and verb) does not change either by gender (like Arabic) or by number (like Arabic, English). what’s great of all, it has no past/present/future tense! Seriously, i claim that it is the easiest language in the world.

I’ve learned English since primary school, and did attend the Arabic class back in secondary school. so that’s how i come up with the comparisons above. to me, Arabic is indeed the toughest language to learn (i merely passed the exam). Right now in college I’m taking Mandarin. with all the characters and many ways on how to pronounce a single character, i now declare Mandarin [and other Chinese dialects] as the second toughest language. However, as Malaysian, i’m eager to learn the language as i watch lots of Chinese dramas (j-do and k-do too). Japanese i can see it’s like Bahasa. easy to pronounce and also easy grammar. the only difference is that it still has characters for reading/writing. Except for Kanji, Katakana and Hiragana are easier. so i say, Japanese is the easiest language that has special characters for it’s writings. Hehe.

I'm a native speaker of Bahasa and am fluent in English. To me, English is not easy to learn. Though it is spoken widely and is taught in most schools throughout the world, it still, does not mean it's the easiest. and just because I'm a native Bahasa speaker does not mean that I'm biased. i've observed the foreign students in my college. they are made compulsory to learn Bahasa as a requirement. they just learn basic Malay only. i've watch their textbook only contains the major greetings, common day to day nouns/verbs and some simple grammar. and yet, towards the end of the 1st semester, they are able to order food at cafes and have their heads turned to see which of us local have spoken stuff about them. See! Bahasa is easy.
 
Banu_Hashim said:
Obviously your English, is way better than the average person. I actually had to look up "addendum"and "parsing", which I now know is "Syntactic Analysis" in linguistic terms. :p
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parsing is what we call in Arabic 'I'3raab'
most people don't know what that is in Arabic or English :haha: but remember I wrote before about not wanting to recall back the difficult days of learning?

let's just say I had a very strict teacher (my dad) and there was no room for error with him ;D
I think what he tolerated less than not knowing is feigning knowledge that certainly earned extra demerits and demerits were met with :X:X:X:X

I think I get that from him too, my impatience with people whom I feel lag behind, don't want to make an effort, don't want to pick themselves up or just plain lazy...

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Sister Dianayusof is right, bahasa melayu (basic language of Malaysian and Indonesian language) is easy to learn because it has simple grammar, no tenses, no gender, no plural (just repeat the word). Of course there is a difference in word arangement if it compared with English.
In English : Adjective + Subject/object. In Melayu : Subject/object + adjective. In example, in Melayu, green is 'hijau' and mountain is 'gunung'. And, green mountain in bahasa Melayu is not 'hijau gunung', but 'gunung hijau'.

Brother north_malaysian told us several times, difference between Malaysian and Indonesian language is 20%. Actually, that is in daily or super slang conversation, both in Malaysian and Indonesian language. However, in official conversation like in newspaper, this difference is less than 6%.
 
ardianto said:
Sister Dianayusof is right, bahasa melayu (basic language of Malaysian and Indonesian language) is easy to learn because it has simple grammar, no tenses, no gender, no plural (just repeat the word).
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some words have gender:

seniman/seniwati (artist), peragawan/peragawati (model), olahragawan/olahragawati (athlete), biduan/biduanita (celebrity), ustaz/ustazah (religious teacher), muslim/muslimah (moslem)

some words have plurality:

ulamak (religious scholars), pepokok (trees), bebunga (flowers), muslimin/muslimat (moslems), jejari (fingers)...

in my dialect:

hang (you - singular), hangpa (you - plural)
dea (he/she), depa (they)



ardianto said:
Brother north_malaysian told us several times, difference between Malaysian and Indonesian language is 20%. Actually, that is in daily or super slang conversation, both in Malaysian and Indonesian language. However, in official conversation like in newspaper, this difference is less than 6%.
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It could be 0% difference when it comes to Malaysian Language at schools because we are allowed to use Indonesian words in essays...
 
MSN said:
Between English and French and Arabic,English is the easiest.imo
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that is right (according to me too) there is hardly any chance of misunderstanding a conversation in modern English whereas older languages are/can be distorted according to need of a(ny) particular grouping of people
 
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north_malaysian said:
some words have gender:

seniman/seniwati (artist), peragawan/peragawati (model), olahragawan/olahragawati (athlete), biduan/biduanita (celebrity), ustaz/ustazah (religious teacher), muslim/muslimah (moslem)

some words have plurality:

ulamak (religious scholars), pepokok (trees), bebunga (flowers), muslimin/muslimat (moslems), jejari (fingers)...

in my dialect:

hang (you - singular), hangpa (you - plural)
dea (he/she), depa (they)

It could be 0% difference when it comes to Malaysian Language at schools because we are allowed to use Indonesian words in essays...
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You right about gender. (Why I forget it ?).

About plurality, you also right. But in Indonesia we usually repeat the word.

About 20% and 6% difference. I compare Malaysian language that used in online newspaper and in blog. Sometime I can't understand conversation that I read in a Malaysian blog, especialy in short sentence.

Thanks for this clarification brother. :)
 
I definitely agree that bahasa Indonesia/Melayu is the easiest to learn for the reasons mentioned by brothers in the previous posts, and not just because i hail from Indonesia :)

but because I live in jakarta, the version of the (spoken) language that we speak here has branched out differently from that spoken in Malaysia.
 

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