According to the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) and Department of State, the following languages come from the list classified in “Category 1” of languages closely related to English.
#1: Afrikaans The Good: Afrikaans seems to top a lot of easiest language to learn lists. A few reasons are: The grammar is logical and easy. There is no verb conjugation and it has no gender. The languages I speak, Spanish and German, are beasts in both: Spanish is the king of verb conjugation…