#easiest languages

Okay, first I want to say, that the easiest language will always be the one you’re interested in. If you have fun while leaning and actually WANT to learn a language, it’ll be always easier than an “easy” language you don’t care about at all. For example if you want to learn Japanese because you loveJapan and their culture, every second learning another language will feel like a waste of time. If you like it = easy. If you don’t like it = hard. What people mean, when they talk about easiest and hardest languages, is how different these languages are, compared to the languages you speak. Because if it’s more different, it will take you longer to learn the new language. There’s this “Language Difficulty Ranking” of the FSI, which shows the easiest and hardest languages for native English speakers. So for this, let’s just say you’re not interested in any language at all and you only speak English as your mother tongue. Then here are the easiest and hardest languages for you.

Group 1 (575-600 hours):AfrikaansDanishDutchFrenchItalianNorwegianPortugueseRomanianSpanishSwedish

Group 2 (750 hours):German

Group 3 (900 hours):IndonesianMalaysianSwahili

Group 4 (1100 hours):AlbanianAmharicArmenianAzerbaijaniBengaliBosnianBulgarianBurmeseCroatianCzechEstonianFinnishGeorgianGreekHebrewHindiHungarianIcelandicKhmerLaoLatvianLithuanianMacedonianMongolianNepaliPashtoPersian (Dari, Farsi, Tajik)PolishRussianSerbianSinhalaSlovakSlovenianTagalogThaiTurkishUkrainianUrduUzbekVietnameseXhosaZulu

Group 5 (2200 hours):ArabicCantonese (Chinese)Mandarin (Chinese)JapaneseKorean