What's the easiest language to learn?

[Dandelion]

Easiest language for an English speakers would probably be Dutch or Afrikaans, followed by Scandinavian languages. No German is still easier than the latter. German is more inflecting, yes, but West Germanic languages still are more alike to each other than to any North Germanic.

From easy to less easy:

Afrikaans > Dutch > German > Swedish > Norwegian > Danish. Probably. Not sure about the order of the Scandinavian languages. I always assume Swedish to be the least difficult, but then I heard people call Norwegian 'unrefined simpler Swedish', yet Norwegian does have three noun genders instead of two like Swedish does.

And also: Icelandic despite being Germanic would be harder than learning a Romance language, for an English speaker.

Still this is all very subjective. I mean, if you are a Francophile, you'd learn more French than any of listed language, for instance.

[Gwydion]

I can't say which is the easiest, but honestly if you exclude reading and writing Mandarin Chinese is pretty easy once you get the tone system down. Same SVO as English, mostly extremely simple grammar, no genders, often more logical words for various groups of things (in English we have a different word for car, truck, bicycle, etc. whereas in Mandarin all of them would be some variation of 车 "che".) I personally found it easier for those reasons than my previous attempts at French, German, and Russian.

[Norb]

Easiest language for an English speakers would probably be Dutch or Afrikaans, followed by Scandinavian languages. No German is still easier than the latter. German is more inflecting, yes, but West Germanic languages still are more alike to each other than to any North Germanic.

From easy to less easy:

Afrikaans > Dutch > German > Swedish > Norwegian > Danish. Probably. Not sure about the order of the Scandinavian languages. I always assume Swedish to be the least difficult, but then I heard people call Norwegian 'unrefined simpler Swedish', yet Norwegian does have three noun genders instead of two like Swedish does.

And also: Icelandic despite being Germanic would be harder than learning a Romance language, for an English speaker.

Still this is all very subjective. I mean, if you are a Francophile, you'd learn more French than any of listed language, for instance.

you think German is harder than all of them?

[Dandelion]

you think German is harder than all of them?

Easier. Not harder. German has more rules than Scandinavian languages (save Faroese and Icelandic, but they're not spoken in Scandinavia anyway), but it's just more similar to English in the its lexicography in the end.

[Ülev]

Ukrainian language, I hear it when walking on the streets, buying in the shops, 2 millions of Lyssyi's dominates Poland
besides is closest to polish language than any other Slavic
Greater Xoxlostan is a matter of time

[Finnish Swede]

You already speak Swedish. The differences are mostly orthographic.

Yes, those are close. I'm not worried at all. Depending of their dialects I can already understand some of their speaks. And they even better mine. But I want to learn to speak and pronounce Norwegian well.

[Norb]

Easier. Not harder.

add Flemish to the list aswell!

[Smaug]

English.

[Dandelion]

add Flemish to the list aswell!

We speak Dutch man.

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Those languages aren't as easy as people think due to gender and other stuff