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which european language is the easiest to learn as a second language?

french pronunciation is hard
german spelling.... hell no
maybe spanish and Portuguese?

Reply 1

After English? With what purpose?

As a kid I was in France a lot, learnt plenty from real world speaking, but got a U in my GCSE

As an adult I worked in Germany and found spoken German fairly easy to learn, as in follow what people are saying and go about my daily life - don't fancy my chances with writing or passing any exams though. Worked in Holland, got almost nowhere with speaking Dutch but could follow some of it (some similarities to English). Worked in Italy, had a translator, those folks speak crazy fast . . .

FWIW Spanish and Portuguese are very different, Spanish is very useful in many parts of the world

Reply 2

It depends on a person I think. I'd been learing German, but it was hard for me, and it sounds pretty aggresive, so I lost interest pretty fast. Now I've been learning French, which is hard, but I like it and the process goes mostly smooth.
I know that Spanish is a choice of many people
Entirely depends on your language background, but I would say for a native English speaker who has not learned any other languages, Spanish is probably your best bet.

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