what up youtube your boy dubois here back with another reaction before and reacts and
uh we're gonna be checking out what's the easiest language to learn i'm guessing english hello well
but um i did watch this guy's video before previously and um
regarding uh russia or in the russian language and um he said it was a category four and according to
what he said in the previous video there are five categories of languages which means uh
one through five and he said five was the hardest russian was four on that scale so
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without further ado guys let's get right into the video i don't know why the hesitancy
so it turns out i have to take a language credit in university so
i'm going to take the easiest language in the world okay german spanish chinese
german spanish maybe spanish would be easier i don't know good day everyone one of the most
common questions about language learning is what is the easiest language to learn
now there is no exact answer to that question that applies to everyone because it depends on
a few different factors so the factors it depends on are your native language any
other languages you happen to have learned and also the complexity of the language in question
so if your native language is english then the easiest language for you is probably the one
that's the most similar to english and if it's not then maybe you've learned another language
like if you've learned french then maybe the language that's easiest for you to learn is the
one that's most similar to french because you've already learned a lot of the concepts of those
that those languages have in common so you've already done a lot of the work in the past already
okay so it could be your native language the one that's closest to your native language closest
to other languages you've learned and it also another factor is the complexity of that language
so it could be a language that's similar to your own but if that language happens to be quite
complex then maybe that's not the easiest one so it's kind of a balance of those different factors
so there's no precise formula but we have an idea just from those factors now the american
foreign service institute that trains american diplomats to go
overseas what trains them in language skills before their placement overseas
they've done a lot of research into this topic as it relates to english speakers because
they're training their american staff to go abroad so they're english speakers but they're learning
other languages so they have a lot of data about how many hours it takes about how intensively
they have to study these different groups of languages so they have it categorized into four
different groups there's category one which are the easiest languages to learn for native english
speakers then they've got two three four and then five is the the group of most difficult languages
to learn correct and those people studying those languages study for i believe 88 weeks
full time so that's like 88 weeks i guess a year and a half something like that people who study
the category 1 languages i think are in there for 23 or 24 weeks full time so it's almost times four
if you learn a level five language so which ones are in level one the easiest category they are
the germanic languages such as dutch afrikaans the northern germanic languages from scandinavia
like sweden uh swedish norwegian and danish not finnish that's a separate language group i know
he was not gonna say finish because finishing the finish is probably in category four i'm so
sure i'm supposed to learn finnish on my channel as well i'm supposed to do finnish in russian
on this channel try to learn them and i'm telling you i i'm i learned that russian is category four
and i'm so sure that finnish is gonna be category four but i had no idea that dutch um swedish and
norwegian and danish was actually one of the easiest for english speakers that's crazy
then you've got the romance languages like french and spanish italian and portuguese and i believe
also romanian is in there so those ones are the most closely related to english you've got
the germanic ones like dutch and afrikaans and i think those are probably the most closely related
to english and the easiest to learn i haven't actually studied those personally but a lot of
people say that dutch is the easiest for english speakers i have studied french and french has been
the easiest language that i have personally studied i used to think it was indonesian
because indonesian is really simple and really straightforward and i made really fast progress
in it and i could communicate in indonesian after studying for just a couple of months before a trip
but when i started to study french i realized how much of an advantage that shared vocabulary
is because english vocabulary is something like 35 percent french so when i would look at a
french text i would recognize a lot of the key words already and i could basically understand
half of the text without ever having studied french so after a few weeks i could
basically read and after a few months i could communicate and speak not fluently but i could
make myself understood and i could understand right pretty much whatever was said to me face
to face at least not on the radio or not third person but face to face i could understand so
french has been definitely the easiest one for me category 2 by the way consists of only german
german is a germanic language just like dutch or afrikaans and it's closely related to english
but it's also quite complex grammatically it's not that complicated from what i hear but it does have
some complications like grammatical case endings that other germanic languages don't have and
that's why it's not in category one it's a little bit more complex than the category one languages
that puts it in category two and i believe it's the only language in category two so it's kind of
off on its own because it's related to english but a little bit complicated the hardest has been
japanese by far and that's one of the category five languages according to the foreign service
institute now what makes japanese so hard is first of all the grammati the grammar is very different
from english it's about as different as you can get and also the writing system is extremely
complex and i think that the fsi categorization of level five doesn't even take into account
the writing system it's just the spoken language uh it matches my experience with french versus
japanese it's feel it feels to me like it took about five times as long to get conversant in
japanese as it did with french about five times as long but then the writing system on top of that
takes a lot longer than that maybe 10 times or 20 times wow 30 times as long as as it takes to learn
i figured something like that would have been up there because to write in japanese it's
japanese chinese man to write those languages crazy from french to read and write french because
you're learning four different uh writing systems and combining them together you're learning
ideographic pictures those are the chinese characters kanji those are very complicated
there's 2 000 of them that you need just to read a book comfortably and they're read in different
ways there's different pronunciations for each one so learning japanese is a real long-term
intensive thing so it's been the hardest for me second to that would be arabic because when you
learn arabic you're learning not only one language you're learning the formal language which is kind
of outdated archaic language but then you have to learn a dialect at the same time and then you have
to learn how to communicate with speakers of other dialects so with arabic you're learning a whole
language family that's what makes it hard but the easiest has definitely been french followed by
indonesian because of its simplicity indonesian by the way is a category 3 language according to fsi
obviously it's one of the more simple languages but it doesn't have that shared vocabulary that
with english that french or spanish or italian or or dutch or africans would have that's why
it's not in category one even though it's very simple anyway i hope that was helpful that was
wild brother that was wild like i had no idea that he would have said in any way possible that these
would have been the easiest languages to learn like i had no idea because like i've always been
a person who like i want to learn different languages i actually once knew spanish pretty
well and french pretty well but i deleted it from my memory i if you have that you know strong mind
mindset you know your willpower you're like okay i don't want to know this anymore ding it's gone
magic stops anyway let me let me quit that but um yeah i actually um never knew dutch
swedish norwegian danish he actually mentioned french was the easiest one for him to learn
personally so um that's pretty cool uh i will be honest i've tried french and spanish before
and they weren't the hardest languages to learn period so um i'm gonna be learning two of the
hardest languages to learn in the world i'm not going to the japanese or the chinese uh not going
across those roads period i'm not doing it i'm sorry but i'm just not going to do that because i
think i might kill myself if i try but either ways guys um this was very interesting easiest language
to learn for this guy french but according to the um studies his research dutch um africans swedish
norwegian danish that's pretty cool german number two that's on the uh number two of the categories
right on the second category which is pretty cool but uh yeah shout out to you guys like in
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