Is german really one of the easiest language for english speakers to learn?
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I've been learning German for the past three years and I'm going to Germany this summer for three weeks. I think that it's a mediocre language, but it's definetly not hard to learn.
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Yes I believe it is relatively easy for English speakers to learn there are a lot of similarities.
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No, Scots is the easiest; it's nearly indistinguishable. It's barely even considered it's own language. Give it a google, it's pretty simple to unerstand once you get the hang of it, can actually read it fluently with a scotts dictionary at hand for the Gaelic based words.
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Yes, in college many language students said that.
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I've always heard that any of the "romance languages" are the least difficult to learn. But Spanish busted my @#$%s in college!
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With proper guidance and sincerity any one can Learn any Language.
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I think so. I speak English as a second language and my home tongue is Afrikaans that's a Germanic language like German and there's a lot of words that sounds very much the same... Have a look at this article regarding learning German for some more advice and tips. http://learningaforeignlanguage.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/seven-great-ways-to-learn-german/
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German has affinities with English but it is an inflected language and that means a pile of information supplied in English by prepositions is supplied as suffices (cases) to the roots of nouns, but just to keep things simple German has the prepositions as well. Also nouns in German have three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter, and the suffices vary with gender, so not only do you have learn all the cases, but you have to remember the gender of every noun you learn so that you can put the correct suffix on to the root. German verbs are also very complicated. Compared with Afrikaans, French, Italian, and Latin (in order of increasing difficulty for me, Afrikaans easiest, Latin hardest) I would put German between Italian and Latin.
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