What is the Easiest Language to Learn?

So, what is the easiest language to learn, anyway? This is very subjective, of course, but I recently wrote an article on this based on the results of the Easiest Language To Learn Survey. The survey has been active on my site since June 17th, 2006 with 870 responses. If you have read the results on that page before (which I have updated from time to time), then you already know the answer. If you are interested, you can read the article by clicking on the title in the Ezinearticles widget on the right side of the blog.

Surveys Update

I have recently updated the Hardest Language to Learn and the Easiest Language to Learn surveys. The Thank You page (after you fill out the survey) displays the ongoing results in a graph form. It doesn't show the results of the write-in portion of the survey, only the first part. So many people wanted to actually see the results that I made that addition for them.

I was pleased to see in the Clinton/Obama debate a few weeks ago (I believe it was on Feb 21st - International Mother Language Day!) that they raised questions of bilingualism, language, and English as an official language in the US. Both candidates gave a good response - that they would promote the teaching of foreign languages in school and that it was critical for the US to do so. They also both promoted English as the unifying language of the US, but both backed down from the idea of it as an official language.