Easier Language to learn?

[MagnumsizeWVU]

Im currently taking Italian and I just cant grasp it at all....I want to take Latin instead and was wondering if it is harder to learn then Italian?

 

[FleshLight]

Take spanish. It's the most similar to english.

 

[ZippyDan]

um, its like the same, except less useful...?

try esperanto?

 

[DaWhim]

chinese

 

[MagnumsizeWVU]

the languages WVU teaches: German, Latin, Italian, Russian, Spanish...which of these is the easiest

 

[homercles337]

Originally posted by: MagnumsizeWVU
Im currently taking Italian and I just cant grasp it at all....I want to take Latin instead and was wondering if it is harder to learn then Italian?

Um yes.

 

[Praxis1452]

arabic

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: MagnumsizeWVU
the languages WVU teaches: German, Latin, Italian, Russian, Spanish...which of these is the easiest

Spanish is the easiest to learn.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I hear german is easy to learn...very close to English in structure.

 

[bobdelt]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
Take spanish. It's the most similar to english.

actually german is. A lot of the words are the same - except d's are t's things like that, and just pronounced differently. It's also a fun language to learn cause you talk about the wars, communism, and beer all the time.

 

[brownboi512]

if u are good at memorizing and grammar, then take latin

 

[Strk]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
Take spanish. It's the most similar to english.

Not really, seeing as how Spanish is a romance language and English isn't. German would be the closest to English.

Switching from Italian to Spanish wouldn't help that greatly, seeing as how they're closely related. The biggest boost you'd get is the likelihood of actually hearing Spanish regularly. The best way to learn a language is through immersion, so an hour every other day in a classroom isn't going to do it.

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: Praxis1452
arabic

arabic would be a poor choice ~


Spanish FTW

 

[Chaotic42]

I really like Russian when I took it, but you should really take Spanish. You'll be speaking it soon enough.

 

[Kirby64]

Originally posted by: magomago

Originally posted by: Praxis1452
arabic

arabic would be a poor choice ~


Spanish FTW

But I thought everyone loves reading from right to left?

 

[KarmaPolice]

Originally posted by: Kirby64

Originally posted by: magomago

Originally posted by: Praxis1452
arabic

arabic would be a poor choice ~


Spanish FTW

But I thought everyone loves reading from right to left?

would be useful in the foreseeable future...that and chines...and Russian...

 

[SmoochyTX]

Spanish is easy to learn.

 

[CellarDoor]

You can't take sign language? Easy and fun to learn IMO. Also, the girl:guy ratio in Sign language classes is about 8:1.

 

[mjrpes3]

Originally posted by: MagnumsizeWVU
the languages WVU teaches: German, Latin, Italian, Russian, Spanish...which of these is the easiest

Italian and Spanish are the easiest. Although if you suck at verbal comprehension like me, you'd do well to choose Latin.

 

[mrrman]

spanglish

 

[2Xtreme21]

Isn't latin just a lot of useless memorization? At least with any spoken language you are given opportunities to express vocabulary and stuff and ingrain it into your head.

 

[schneiderguy]

c++

 

[nageov3t]

I've studied latin (2 years in highschool), italian (1 year in hs), french (2 years in hs), and spanish (4 semesters in college).

spanish is probably the easiest in terms of speaking, but latin is pretty simple if you've got a good head for memorization. it's spoken, but it's not necessarily as complicated as some modern languages and provides a good base for learning any of the romantic languages.