which of the following is easier to learn: Chinese,French,German or Italian?
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French is a lot easier. Take it from a singer. I've had to learn Italian and German. Those where the two hardest for me. Chinese from what I've heard from people is a little tougher. Choose what u think is comfy for u.
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In my opinion chinese. They have a large syllabary. That's just too much to memorize when you have other things to memorize. I gave up on it.\n\nto nwnguyx: what? Dutch is easy. That was my second language.\n\nDutch: hoe laat is het?\nEnglish: What time is it?\n\nThat's pretty close if you ask me.
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i know both. \n\nJe parle francais et italien et je pense francais est mois difficile que italien. \n\n(I speak french and italian and i think taht french is less difficult than italien)
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Let me revise your question. Is it better to learn Chinese or Japanese? If this is what you are asking, it really depends on how you'll use the language.\nIn terms of population, there are much much more people in the whole world speaking Chinese than Japanese.\nMany job opportunities have out-sourced to China. Many people are learning the language for this reason.
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The hardest languages to learn would be ones outside the Indo-European family of languages. This would include all East Asian languages, languages of the natives of Oceania, and many African languages. The hardest modern Indo-European language would probably be any of the Indo-Iranian languages, as they have had little influence on modern Romance languages, unlike the Italic, Germanic, and Greek languages. The easiest to learn would be any of the Romance languages, as they have many similar forms and cognates. Portuguese is the most like Spanish, and would thus likely be the easiest for a Spanish speaker to learn.
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If you're worried about the difficulty then choose German, it is a much easier language based on its roots and the fact that it is also a Germanic language like English, but it depends really on your interests, and your career goals.
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German pronounciation is lot easier, infact its easier than English. In German you will pronounce exactly as you write. French on the other hand is extreamly difficult.
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It isn't too hard to learn. Spanish is the easiest. But german is actully easier than english. If you have a good CD that teaches German. I really liked A+ german. You can learn lots of words. It is best to have a teacher or someone who speaks it to help you get the hang of pronounciation. If you have opportunity to speak it with someone you are more likely to learn it and retain it. A language that you do not get to use is of no benefit. I learned it and didn't have anyone to speak it with , so I've forgotten a lot of it. My daughter learned spanish and has someone to speak it with so she has become fluent with it.
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I am learning Italian and I think that it's not so hard. If you know spanish (which is mixed in with italian) And if you have a person to practice with so that you both can help eachother. That makes it easier. As for it being just out right easy or hard I would say that it depends on how much effort you put into really learning. Anyone can learn a new language though, You are worth as many people as languages you know.
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learn chinese or carry a translator
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Spanish, Italian and French.... I would also add Portuguese to the list...
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Italian is pretty easy to learn. It is very similar to Spanish, and it is a romantic language so it rolls off the tongue.
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That's relative:\n\nLatin does not require much speaking, but involves A LOT of grammatical terms.\n\nFrench can be easily learned because the English language has acquired many french words, but does not follow an easy phonetical system.  One would have to learn how to say each word individually.\n\nSpanish and Italian have almost the easiest phonetics.  You can actually learn to speak Spanish and Italian without knowing what you're saying.  Yet, they both have a lot of rules with definite and indefinite articles that are hard for the English speaker to learn.\n\nIn the end, all are equally easy and hard because of their own reasons.  Go with the one you'd want to learn the most!  Because they'll end up having equal amount of advantages and disadvantages.
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For an English speaker, I would say Spanish is by far the easiest of the four to learn.  If you speak other languages, the answer might be different.\n\nLatin is particularly hard because of the declension of nouns.  French pronunciation is sometimes difficult (especially the nasal vowels).  German isn't too difficult, but the sentence word order (verb at the end or verb second) is unnatural for English-speakers (I'd put it in second place among the languages you listed).
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Chinese is the older language.  Japanese went to China in the Chin dynasty to learn the language and culture; therefore, lots of Japanese words have Chinese roots, some even have similar meanings.\n\nChina, the sleeping dragon, is the rising power and is the better language to learn.
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hahaha\njapanese is definitely NOT easier to learn than chinese.\nto a native english speaker, korean and japanese are the most difficult languages to learn in the world.\nwith a name like "yooni" i'm assuming that maybe you're korean?  if that's so, and you know some korean, then japanese grammar is almost identical to korean grammar, but the vocabulary is completely different.\non the other hand, again based off of korean, because korean has so much chinese-based vocabulary, learning hanja is actually pretty easy, because it's logical and makes sense for the most part.  plus, chinese has very little grammar at all.  while the characters will make it a little more difficult to learn how to read, you can be speaking chinese with a bit of fluency in no time.  \nbut remember, japanese has three ways of writing, and the main one is pure chinese characters (or variants thereof).  so, whether you learn japanese or chinese, you'll still have to memorize all that hanja.\n\nyour parents are right.  according to all major economists, japan is sinking in the international community, and china and korea are rising.  i strongly suggest learning either chinese or korean.\nhowever, if you *really* want to learn japanese, go ahead.  i don't see much benefit in japanese other than to read japanese literature.
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I would say the most difficult language to learn would be any asian one. This is because they use a completely different system of letters. I think the hardest of them is Arabic, because you have to read it from right to left instead of how we read it left to right. I hope that helped!