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Whats the easiest language for native English speakers to learn?

April 26, 2017culture easiest English Language Languages learn native Society speakers

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Whats the easiest language for native English speakers to learn?

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I know plenty of people who’ve picked up another language (fluently) after the age of 30, so I’m sure you can too. I would say that Frisian would be the easiest language for an English speaker to learn (since it’s English’s closest relative, disregarding “languages” like Scots and Jamaican Patois), but Frisian is disappearing and there’s no practical application for it– in which case I would recommend Dutch. Dutch and Afrikaans are the most closely related major world languages to English, it’s not German, contrary to popular belief. In the West Germanic family of languages, English is an Anglo-Frisian language which would make Frisian its closest living relative. Dutch and Afrikaans are both Low Franconian languages– this group constitutes the next closest thing to the Anglo-Frisian languages. A Germanic language should be fairly easy for you to learn since they’re all so close to English. I don’t recommend German as the best language to learn in terms of difficulty– German grammar