Re: Easy and Interesting Languages -- Website

Chris Bates wrote:

> I was thinking of making a list of easy and interesting (from a
> linguistic point of view) languages for people who speak various
> languages to learn, if someone hasn't done it already, and putting it up
> on my free webspace (which is doing nothing useful at the moment
> really... I think there's an old page there). Anyone think it'd be a
> good idea of want to suggest languages to go in either category for
> native speakers of their language? I thought that the two categories
> would vary from language to language, since what's easy and what's
> interesting depends upon what you intuitively feel is the default.
>
> For English I guess:
>
> Relatively easy:
> Spanish
> French
> Frisian
> German (? Never learned much, I think that might actually not be that
> easy for an english speaker, even though the two languages are not that
> distantly related)
> (Lots more... Suggestions welcome)

Okay, for English, taking only official languages of nations:

Easy:
(roughly in order, probably)
Dutch(possibly the easiest major world language to learn)/Afrikaans
Bislama(hey, it's an official language of Vanuatu)
Danish/Swedish/Norwegian
French
German
Icelandic/Faroese
Spanish
Italian
Portugese

I'll leave the 'interesting' because bits of most languages I find
interesting.

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