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1-Afrikaans
Afrikaan is in the West Germanic language family.A great feature of Afrikaans, especially for grammar-phobes, it's logical, non-inflective structure.There is no verb conjugation and there is no gender.
Another feature is the vocabulary.The words are familiar to English.
"Wat is dit in Afrikaans?"
2-French
Thanks to William the Conqueror for excellent, colour, identity, and about 8000 other French-derived English words left over from the Norman occupation.
French vocabulary is more familiar, recognisable, and easy to comprehend. Advanced French learners may struggle with its gendered nouns and 17 verb forms, but for conversational learning, it’s relatively facile.
3-Spanish
In most cases, words are written as pronounced. This means that reading and writing in Spanish is easy to learn.
Pronunciation is also fairly easy for native English speakers.Spanish is also an attractive second language for English speakers because of its international status. Spanish is an official language on three continents, and with growing economies in Latin and South America, it’s a valuable professional skill.
4-Dutch
Another West Germanic cousin of the English language, Dutch is both structurally and syntactically familiar for English speakers. In terms of pronunciation and vocabulary, it parallels English in many ways.Dutch is similar to German, but because it has no cases and a less complicated grammatical system. Dutch to be the easiest language for English speakers.
5-Norwegian
This North Germanic language has consistent pronunciation and, for English speakers, some pretty breezy grammar. Norwegian and English have very similar syntax and word order. Verbs are an especially simple feature, with no conjugation according to number or person. The rules of conjugation are particularly straightforward.
6-Portuguese
Portuguese is grammatically similar to other Romance languages.Though the nasal vowel sounds of Portuguese may be difficult to pronounce at first, its rhythmic tone is easy for English ears to follow.
7-Swedish
Another Germanic language, Swedish shares many cognate words with English.
The syntax is also familiar to English speakers, with a Subject-Verb-Object structure, and verb conjugations which follow the same patterns and rules as in English grammar.Wonderfully simple conjugation. “I speak/ You speak/ He speaks” would translate into Swedish as jag pratar / du pratar/ han pratar.
8-Italian
The most romantic of Romance language, Italian has a Latin-rooted vocabulary which allows for many Italian/English cognates, including foresta (forest), calendario (calendar), and ambizioso (ambitious). Italian sentence structure is highly rhythmic, with most words ending in vowels. This adds a musicality to the spoken language which makes it fairly simple to understand, and undeniably fun to produce.
9-Esperanto
Esperanto advocate Leo Tolstoy claimed to have learned it in four hours. Most linguists class it among the easiest languages to learn, especially for Indo-European language speakers. Though not an official language in any one country.Now has an estimated 2 million speakers worldwide. The spelling system is regular and phonetic, and the rules of grammar are simple and designed without irregularities. Words are constructed building-block style out of regularised prefixes, roots, and suffixes.
10-Frisian
This language is native to Friesland in the Netherlands, and is spoken by fewer than half a million people. Still, it is English’s closest sibling, uniquely connected in the tiny linguistic category of North Sea Germanic languages. Frisian are uncanny, with near-identical vocabulary, structure, and phonetics.There’s a linguistic saying, “Good butter and good cheese” (Goed bûter en goed tsiis) is good English and good Fries.”
Spoken aloud, the Frisian and English versions of the sentence are interchangeable.
source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk
