What Is the Easiest Language to Learn for English Speakers?

Discover the easiest languages for English speakers to learn—by region—including ASL, Latin, and global picks from Europe to Africa.
Purdue University

Study: Fluency outweighs pronunciation for understanding non-native English speakers

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Pronunciation accuracy may not be the most important thing for making non-native English speakers easier to understand, but rather it is their fluency, including fewer pauses, ...
Psychology Today

Correcting Non-Native Speakers May Hinder Their Learning

In his 1913 play Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw wrote: “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.” While Shaw was referring to ...
Juneau Empire

New summit gathers many of the world’s fluent Alaska Native language speakers

Centennial Hall echoed Tuesday with the sound of centuries-old languages. The first-ever Voices of Our Ancestors language summit brought together dozens of speakers fluent in Lingít, Xaad Kíl and ...
Publishers Weekly

Native Speakers: PW Talks with Caleb Everett

In A Myriad of Tongues (Harvard Univ., Sept.), University of Miami anthropologist Everett examines the ways language shapes how people think. How did spending your childhood in the jungles of Amazonia ...