Re: Easiest Language to "pick up" after learning Latin

From: Augustus S.F.X Van Dusen (asfxvd_at_story.net)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:32:11 GMT

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 02:34:59 -0700, Jacques Guy wrote:

> Spanish would be my choice too.

        Thinking about the ease with which one can pick up Spanish, how would
that work for a speaker of a non-Latin language? Let me take this to an
extreme: Assume an educated monolingual Japanese speaker. Which of the
Indoeuropean languages would he be likely to find the easiest to learn,
and why?