Which is the Easiest Language to Learn? Rating the 14 Most Popular Course Offerings
Category 2. Medium, requiring 1100 hours of classwork: Slavic languages, Turkic languages, other Indo-Europeans such as Persian and Hindi, and some non-Indo-Europeans such as Georgian, Hebrew and many African languages. Swahili is ranked easier than the rest, at 900 hours.
Category 3. Difficult, requiring 2200 hours of study: Arabic, Japanese, Korean and the Chinese languages.
Will you get a chance to practice this language?
Now, consider another important factor: accessibility. To be a successful learner you need the chance to hear, read and speak the language in a natural environment. Language learning takes an enormous amount of concentration and repetition, which cannot be done entirely in the classroom. Will you have access to the language where you live, work and travel?
The 14 most popular courses according to a combination of linguistic ease and accessibility.
1. Spanish. Category One. The straightforward grammar is familiar and regular. It is also ubiquitous in the Americas, the only foreign language with a major presence in the insular linguistic environment of the U.S. Chances to speak and hear it abound. It is the overwhelming favorite, accounting for more than fifty percent of language study enrollment in the MLA study.
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Deciding to learn a new language is an exciting activity to undertake. Although sometimes it can be challenging, the rewards of learning to speak a different verbiage can be very satisfying. But there are so many languages to learn, which do you choose? I am going to give you some great reasons why you should choose to engage your brain into learning Brazilian Portuguese, and after you read this then, I hope you will be picking up a "How To Learn the Portuguese Language" book in no time, inspired and ready to learn!
You should know that Portuguese is the sixth most spoken language on Earth. That means about two hundred fifty-two million people use this language every day. By learning it yourself, you will have the skills to communicate with a lot more people, and many people who undertook learning the Portuguese language found it also is close to the Spanish dialect. So, in turn, you can actually communicate successfully with not only people who speak Portuguese, but also those who speak Spanish as well.
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Have you spoken with an English Language Learner lately?
Are you trying to learn the English Language?
As a writer and interpreter, I love the English language and continue to hone my speaking and writing skills everyday. Recently, while waiting in line at the Post Office, I engaged in conversation with an adult Native-Spanish speaker who was learning the English language via a CD program.
This individual spoke the language as if it was 'rote' learned, that is to say, in a mechanical sounding manner without understanding the meaning. Fact was: We were NOT communicating in English.
The question that emerged as we went our separate ways was, Is this adult person 'acquiring' or 'learning' the language?
Experience has taught me that there's a big difference between an 'acquired' and a 'learned' language. I'm not alone in this distinction. According to linguists, these are people who conduct scientific studies on the human language, it's been discovered that there's definitely a recognition of such difference between acquiring and learning a new language.
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