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I don't even think you have to conjugate swedish verbs, it's all the infinite.
No, you have to. Plus the rule is to break the rule, so don't count on any rules when learning Swedish.
Out of the languages I have tried, English was very easy to learn. Spanish coming in second (learned more Spanish in one year than I did French in 5 years).
But as a native Swedish speaker, Norweigan or Danish (perhaps Icelandic, but that's highly personal) would probably be the absolute easiest to learn would I set my mind to it.
I'm French and English was incredibly easy to learn. Spanish and Italian are also easy languages to learn if you are French as both are Romance Languages and share a lot of similarities with French. Portuguese is harder but still relatively easy, I can read a lot of Portuguese without having ever "learnt" any of it, same with Romanian .
The two hardest languages to get to grasp with during my travels were Hungarian and Finnish. And Estonian I suppose. The pronounciation is quite alien to me. I found that even learning a few words of Swahili or Chinese was a lot easier as the phonetics somehow are not so much of an issue for me as it is with Hungarian or Finnish.
If you speak English all Nordic and Germanic languages should be relatively easy as Englishis basically a descendant of an amalgation of many influences, Norse, Saxon and Danish in particular. Yet English also has some roots in Norman French and of course some Latin influences too , which perhaps is why it is such an easy language to learn. Legal and Medical terms in English are always easy for me to decipher as I did Latin at school. I also find a lot of words based on French .
I thought Italian was the easiest European language to learn. Romanian is pretty easy, but it helps an English speaker that there are a lot of cognates in the vocabulary, and the syntax follows pretty close to ours.
Elsewhere, Indonesian is pretty easy. Mandarin Chinese is a very simple language, grammatically, at the fundamental level, which it makes it very easy to learn to speak and understand. Swahili is easy because of the simplified grammar and the words mostly borrowed from other familiar languages.
I read just the other day that the number of different phonemes in a language is inversely proportional to the distance from Africa. The further from Africa, the fewer the phonemes. Down to only 12 in Hawaiian, and a similar few in Finnish. Inuit and Indonesian also have very few. I think at least one of the Bushmen languages of Africa has about 12 implosive clicks alone.
For me its Italian. My motherlanguage is German. By the way I dont think it easier for native English speakers to learn German. There a few vocabulary which are the same in English but then there are million others (like in every language). If you dont learn German as a child people will probaly hear that you arent a navtive speaker because the pronuonciation is bery hard. (or why had München (Munich) to be translated in English?
I think the hardest time you will have with the -ch. Non native people speak it mostly -sch.
But German is a very beautiful language if spoken correctly. And its not so mainstream like Spanish or Italian.
F(or why had München (Munich) to be translated in English?
It's a bit of an aside, but there is a reason why some European cities are respelled in English and others not. Before Germany and Italy became countries, they were a collection of city-sates. The British had to maintain separate diplomatic relations with each of them, so they were given English names, the same way countries and their capitals were.
The British had an ambassador to "Munich", but not to Garmisch-Partenkirchen or Kaiserslautern, so there was no incentive to anglicize those names. Which is why we have Turin and Naples and Lisbon, even there is nothing difficult about Torino and Napoli and Lisboa.
I would have an easier time learning swedish compared to a spanish guy who would have an easier time learning italian compared to me
Agreed!
OP, assuming your first language is English, Spanish is very easy to learn, at least vocabulary wise. Sentence structure a bit more difficult but not strenuous by any means. Ex: Instead of saying "apple pie," Spanish speakers say "pie of apple."
It's also the most in-demand English-similar language out there, at least in North America.
Spanish maybe? I'm not familiar with all the worlds languages, but for the one's I am familiar with, Spanish seems easier when compared. I would say Italian too, only because Spanish and Italian have many similarities being a Romance language. I'm just starting to learn a couple of languages
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