What is the easiest language to learn as an english speaker? Self generated.

The 9 easiest and most useful languages to learn as an English speaker (besides English) are as follows...


Afrikaans


Afrikaans and English both derive from the West Germanic language family. Unlike English though, the Afrikaans language is not inflective. This means that with some memorized vocabulary, you can build sentences as you would a Lego tower, stacking words without worry of conjugation. In other words, you’ll hardly be a grammar slave if you take up this logical language.


Hello: Hallo
Goodbye: Totsiens
Yes: Ja
No: Geen
Please: Asseblief 
Thankyou: Dankie dat u


Danish


As with most Scandinavian languages, the biggest hurdle with studying Danish is in being able to practice. Danish is said to be the hardest Scandinavian language to learn because of its speaking patterns. It is generally spoken more quickly and more softly than other Scandinavian languages. Grammatically, though, it’s relatively easy. Danish has only nine verb forms, including the passive, which is peculiar to Scandinavian languages but familiar to English speakers. Danish has a lot of Germanic-based cognate vocabulary too: Monday Tuesday Wednesday, in Danish, are Mandag, Tirsdag, Onsdag.


Hello: Hej
Goodbye: Farvel
Yes: Ja
No: Ingen
Please: Venligst
Thankyou: Tak


French


Like all romance languages, French has a few difficulties for prospective speakers. There are more verb forms (17, compared to the English 12) and gendered nouns (le crayon, la table). Pronunciation is especially difficult in French, with vowel sounds and silent letters. But the good points? Like all Romance languages, French’s Latin roots make much of the vocabulary familiar to English speakers (edifice, royal, village). Linguists debate the concrete number, but it’s said that French has influenced up to a third of English vocabulary, giving it more lexical common ground with English than any other romance language.


Hello: Bonjour
Goodbye: Au revoir
Yes: Oui
No: No
Please: S'il vous plait
Thankyou: Merci


Italian

This is another romance language but Italian is written as its spelled. For learners, reading comes fluidly once a few new phonemes are learned ( like –ghi- or –ci-).
Italian words tend to end in vowels, which makes for really fun, flowing speaking, as you might hear in Italians speaking English (“that’s-a my-a house-a”).Many English speakers like to “study” by reading Italian restaurant menus and salivating.


Hello: Ciao
Goodbye: Addio
Yes: Sí
No: No
Please: Per favor
Thankyou: Grazie

Norwegian


The language is structurally similar to Danish, but with pronunciation more familiar to English speakers. Norwegian, like Swedish, uses a tonal “pitch accent” to distinguish homonyms, stressing either the first or second syllable of the word.


Hello: Hallo
Goodbye: Farvel
Yes: Ja
No: Ingen
Please: Vennligst
Thankyou: Takk

Portugese

Grammatically, Portuguese is similar to other Romance languages. There are fewer prepositions in Portuguese than in English (easy to remember!) However, their uses don’t always have direct parallels in English (easy to mix up).
One great element of the language is that questions are really easy, (“You love me?”) If you can say it in Portuguese, you can ask it.

Hello: Óla
Goodbye: Adeus
Yes: Sim
No: Não
Please: Por favor
Thankyou: Obrigado

Romanian

The geographic dark horse of the romance languages, Romanian is often assumed to be the most difficult of the bunch, with its Slavic influences. Not so fast. They say that Romanian is the closest living language to Latin, and has preserved a lot of Latin’s grammatical structure.
Though the language has taken Slavic influences in its vocabulary, the language is still about 80% Latin-based, and full of cognates like sub (under) or obiect (object).

Hello: Alo
Goodbye: La revedere
Yes: Da
No: Nu
Please: Vă rog
Thankyou: Va multumesc

Spanish

Spanish pronunciation is fairly easy for English speakers, with only ten vowel/dipthong sounds (English has 20), and the easy-to-master letter ñ.Like Italian words are writter like they are pronounced. Which makes reading easier. But particular means “private” in Spanish, and eventual means possible. See how that could get confusing? Still, there’s no shortage of people in the world to help you fix these slip-ups. With 330 million native speakers, it’s the most popular language on this list.

Hello: Hola
Goodbye: Adios
Yes: Sí
No: No
Please: Por favor
Thankyou: Gracias

Swedish

A fellow Germanic language, Swedish has some vocabulary common with English (mus for “mouse”, kung for “king”).

Pronunciation may be a struggle at first, with nine vowels (like ö or å) and the sje- sound, which is unique to Swedish. Once you master it, though, the language is surprisingly melodic.  Students of the language gripe about the complicated grammar system, but the syntax shouldn’t be unfamiliar to an English speaker. In Swedish, the Subject-Verb-Object pattern is standard word order.

Hello: Hallå
Goodbye: Adjö
Yes: Ja
No: Ingen
Please: Vänligen
Thankyou: Tack