Easiest Foreign Languages To Learn

More and more Brits are finding their first job abroad.
But how difficult is it to pick up the language?

Anne Merritt reveals the 10 easiest to learn from scratch.
Afrikaans

Like English, Afrikaans is in the West Germanic language family.

Unlike English, its structure won’t make your head spin. A great feature of Afrikaans, especially for grammar-phobes, is its logical and non-inflective structure.

Unlike English, there is no verb conjugation (swim, swam, swum). Unlike Romance languages, there is no gender (un homme, une femme in French).

Another feature of Afrikaans is its vocabulary, which shares many Germanic-derived root words that are familiar to English speakers.

Vocabulary-building is as easy as pointing to an object and asking, “Wat is dit in Afrikaans?”

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