Interesting, as someone who speaks several languages fluently, and can converse in several more, here's some of my thoughts. I suppose it depends on what they

Interesting, as someone who speaks several languages fluently, and can converse in several more, here's some of my thoughts. I suppose it depends on what they mean by "learn" here, but in terms of attaining near native fluency, in my experience French is one of the most difficult for native english speakers, simply because of the pronunciation system (vowels, especially "r", and sentence intonation) that very few native english speakers can mimic without strong accents. As far as the others go, Swedish is definately very easy to learn, two languages I'm fluent in are German/English and after a year or so of just turning on the swedish radio (started with klartext a simplified swedish news broadcast and went on from there), I can watch Ingmar Bergman films in the original without subtitles. So I would say Swedish is the easiest language ever - especially if you know both German and English since almost all swedish vocab seems to be related to either one or the other. Another really easy language for English speakers that's not on this list would be Chinese, its complete lack of any grammer makes it pathetically simple also the fact that you don't even nead to learn an alphabet to read in Chinese is a big plus. (jk)