Which language will your learn next? - Keen to learn a new language? Then you might want to take a look at this gallery!
 
Based on Kwintessential’s list of easiest languages to learn for native English speakers, here are 10 languages you could seemingly master!

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Afrikaans - Similarly to English, Afrikaans is also a Germanic language. Approximately 90 to 95% of Afrikaans comes from Dutch.

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Afrikaans - Afrikaans is simpler than English. It is more logical and has no verb conjugations (like eat, ate, eaten).

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Afrikaans - Afrikaans is most commonly spoken in South Africa and Namibia.

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French - A lot of English vocabulary comes French. That’s thanks to William the Conqueror’s triumph over the Anglo-Saxons in 1066!

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French - Although French grammar may be difficult, specifically word inflections and gendered nouns, the vocabulary is not that hard for English speakers to comprehend.

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French - You already have at least one French word in your vocabulary: cinema!

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Spanish - Spanish is a language where you say what you see. The words are phonetic.

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Spanish - The English language has around 20 vowel and diphthong sounds, whereas Spanish only has 10! Easy!

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Spanish - The Spanish alphabet is practically the same as the English, but with an additional "ñ".

Spanish has fewer irregularities in grammar than English too. All the more reason to start learning it!

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Dutch - If Afrikaans made it to this list, so does Dutch! In terms of syntax, English and Dutch are fairly similar.

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Dutch - Dutch has less-complicated grammar than German. Choose Dutch! Because who likes grammar?

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Dutch - English and Dutch resemble each other in vocabulary. For instance, “groen” is “green” and “oud” is “old”.

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Swedish - Swedish and English have many words that are very similar, including “kabel”, which means “cable”, “klocka” which means “clock”, “jacka” which means “jacket”... the list goes on!

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Swedish - Similarly to English, Swedish syntax is usually subject-object-verb in structure.

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Swedish - Swedish is referred to as a sing-song language. This may be your chance to sound like ABBA.

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Norwegian - Word order and the syntax of sentences are quite similar in English and Norwegian.

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Norwegian - Norwegian verbs do not have inflections on numbers or people. They instead have a so called “pitch accent” that helps stress certain syllables.

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Norwegian - Norwegian is also considered to be a sing-song language.

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Portuguese - Portuguese spoken in Brazil is deemed a little easier than the Portuguese spoken in Portugal.

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Portuguese - Brazilian Portuguese is spoken with more open vowels, making it a slower language to speak, and therefore easier to understand.

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Portuguese - To ask a question in Portuguese, you simply raise your voice and tone near the end of the sentence. It’s that easy!

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Italian - Italian and English have various words that resemble one another.

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Italian - For example “foresta” means “forest”, “falso”  means “false”, and there are many others!

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Italian - Italian, like Spanish, has little orthographic depth. This means it is fairly easy for English speakers to read and spell. Why not give it a go?

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Esperanto - This is a language that does not belong to any country. However, it is a recognised language by UNESCO and around 2 million speak it worldwide!

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Esperanto - Esperanto is a man-made language with a consistent phonetic spelling structure and  straightforward grammar.

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Esperanto - Compound words in Esperanto function in the same was as in English. For example “akvomelono”, which means “watermelon” (“akvo” meaning water, “melono” being melon).

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Frisian - Did you know… Frisian is the language closest to the English language. England and northern Netherlands used to share a canal until the 8th century!

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Frisian - The Frisian sentence of “bûter, brea, en griene tsiis is goed Ingelsk en goed frysk” translates to “butter, bread, and green cheese is good English and good fries”.

Read it out loud and hear the resemblance!

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Frisian - Only half a million people speak the language. You could be one more!

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