Good luck there m80 :lol:

A lot of my family speak Italian and my Italian was not too bad a few years ago but I don't really get very many opportunities to speak it so I have pretty much lost it. I want to try and learn it in the next few years for when I go back to Europe.

Macedonian.

Did German for 2 years in school. I'm sure if I refreshed my understanding and went over there I'd be able to hold basic conversations, ask for things etc

Currently learning German and Finnish at the moment.

Have heritage in Austria and Germany but know there are differences between German German and Austrian German.

Finnish I learning just for the fun of it.

Any particular reason you picked up Italian?

Tbf, Croatian is one particular expression of a broader language, that is, BCMS. Each are mutually intelligible.

German is fairly easy to pick up if you have a solid grounding in English.

I'd agree - if you want to learn a European language, Spanish or Italian would be easiest.

Italian is generally quite phonetic. So, as opposed to French you don't have to worry about pronunciation being significantly different to the written version.

I've heard german can be difficult because of the strict sentence structures??? Is that right?

Speak Italian fluently.

Have done a couple of years of Mandarin study and while I feel I'm a million years away from fluency I have enough of a grasp of it to travel through China on my own (e.g. read signs, order food, ask for directions etc). The course I was doing is a 4 year course but I had to put it on hold because it became too hard with young kids to do the requisite after hours classes and study. When they're a bit older I'll finish it but I know enough now that I'll still only be scratching the surface. tl;dr Chinese is hard

Racist Eurocentric thread. What about all the Arabic speakers on here?

Swedish/Norwegian/Danish fluently. Intermediate in German and Icelandic. Basic grasp of Spanish, French,Brazilian Portuguese and Mandarin.

Can barely communicate in English.

Don't know about German but of the Romance languages, I'd go for Spanish for utility and simplicity.

English

(probably German)

I want to learn a European language. Which one would be easiest to learn?

Edited by salmonfc: 9/3/2016 03:10:24 PM

Just a random thread.

What languages do we speak?

If you speak multiple in the above poll, just choose your favourite or most obscure option.

And post below - are your other languages your native language, if not then why did you learn it, how much have you learnt by travel, can you speak & write & read each language you know, etc?

For me, I learnt an extremely brief amount of Spanish for when I travelled to Peru. Basically just the Lonely Planet guidebook to help me out of awkward-traveller situations. But I've kept the interest, and plan to learn it more thoroughly from now on. My eventual plan is to completely learn Spanish, then learn German (a language that has interested me since high school) and then learn Croatian because my plan is to retire on the Croatian coastline.

What about you guys?