Which foreign languages are the easiest to learn for beginners?

Did you know that are more than 6,000 languages spoken worldwide? According to the Linguistics Society of America, they placed it at around 6,800 languages. That's a very impressive statistic would you say? No doubt! But with all of these languages, which are the easiest to learn for beginners?

Some might argue that English is the easiest language to learn. Others perhaps with side the Latin-based one such Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese just to name a few. But, what do you think?

I could be wrong but I personally think that it is easier to learn any Latin-based language for most beginners. Why do I say this? Well, for the obvious. All of them are corelated and follow a simple grammatical structure which basically repeats itself. The only difference is a slight (not drastic) change or variation in the pronouciation of words. 

One of the benefits of learning any of these is that once the beginner learns one of them, the rest are a piece of cake. A learner can establish a simple system for learning new ones once he understands and masters one. I liken it to a person learning to cook. You can take one dish that everyone loves and then personalize it and put your own spin to it. The same ingredients are used, however, this time the cook changes slighly the recipe.

Latin-based are easy to learn and great because on many occasions you can speak with others using one language and they can understand you although it's not there mother tongue. For example, let's say that I am French and speak to someone who is Italian. Due to the very close similarities in our languages, we can understand each other and communicate.

So if you learn one Latin-based language, it will far easier for you to learn another in a very short time. I can definitely relate to this because I was able to learn Spanish in this same fashion. Don't get me wrong, I did have to work hard and study the language. Something that I noticed was that many of the Spanish words when reading them were just like French. There was only a slight variation in pronouciation. That helped to speed up the learning process.

The point that I would like to arrive at is that learning any language will some lots of time, energy and real work. It doesn't matter whether it's considered one of the easiest languages to learn or of the hardest. All languages will present some challenges. The idea is to NEVER give up and keep going at it because before long you will expreience the benefits of speaking another language!