Easiest Critical Languages to Learn

[rachel83az]

I agree with LevelUP: fluency can mean a lot of things. One thing I now hate about American schooling is that it seems to push the idea that you're either fluent or you're not. I much prefer the CEFR way of looking at things: A1 to C2.

And it's definitely all about the vocabulary. If you can badly string together "My car is steal today!" then you're usually going to be more understood by natives than someone who knows how to conjugate "steal" properly, along with "drive", "walk", etc. but who doesn't know the words for "car" or "today".

Also, I look at such lists of "the easiest" languages with a grain of salt. The reasons for a language being "harder" or "more difficult" than another seem ambiguous at best. German is often ranked as being more difficult to learn than French. Personally, I don't find this to be the case. German is pretty easy and French is more difficult. Though I do know people who think that French is easy and German is hard. Danish can be even easier than German, once you get over the hurdle of pronunciation.

AFAIK, Romanian isn't an easy language. But it is a Romance language, so it'll probably be easier to learn than, say, a Slavic language like Russian or Czech.