The Top 5 Easiest Languages For English Speakers To Learn

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Spanish:

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Norwegian:

Swedish:

Similar to Norwegian, Swedish is also an easy language for English speakers to pick up. This is for very similar reasons due to the fact it is also a Germanic language. You also have the fact that there are many cognates between Swedish and English. Cognates are simply words in different languages that have a common origin and as such are very similar. 

Afrikaans:

Following a similar pattern Africaans is also a Germanic language and as such is another easy language to learn. It is one of the easiest to learn for native English speakers due to similar words, no noun genders and only three tenses: past, present and future.

Dutch:

And finally we have Dutch, which as you may have guessed also follows the theme of Germanic languages and has many similarities to Afrikaans. As well as many of the previously mentioned reasons why it is an easy language to pick up you also have the fact that modern Dutch has a lot of borrowed words from the English language and very similar, sometimes identical spellings. 

So there you have it, five of the easiest languages for English speakers to learn. You can see our list of hardest languages here: https://mindblasts.com/learning/the-top-5-hardest-languages-for-english-speakers-to-learn/

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