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Why is learning a second language difficult?
Children have a much easier time with the grammar because they learn in a different way than adults do
At what age is learning a second language harder and why?
Evidence indicates it becomes harder to learn a language other than our mother tongue as we progress through adulthood. Now, a new study suggests that children are highly skilled at learning the grammar of a new language up until the age of 17 or 18, much longer than previously thought
If I already know English, which language would be the easiest to learn?
1. Norwegian. This may come as a surprise, but we have ranked Norwegian as the easiest language for English speakers to pick up. Norwegian is a member of the Germanic family of languages — just like English!
How can I begin learning Norwegian as a second language?
Loecsen is a free online course for basic Norwegian language preparation
Is Norwegian easier to learn than Spanish?
Norwegian. If Spanish is easy thanks to the high amount of learning opportunities, Norwegian is closer to English in terms of grammar and word order. ... Norwegian verbs have one of the easiest conjugations in Europe (closer to English than to German) – one verb form per tense.
What other languages are closest to Norwegian?
Danish and Norwegian are the two languages that are the most similar, among the Scandinavian languages. As a group, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian are all very similar and it is common for people from all three countries to be able to understand each other
Describe some of Norwegian's similarities with Danish.
Danish and Norwegian are very similar, or indeed almost identical when it comes to vocabulary, but they sound very different from one another.

Question: How did all these languages evolve
Self-contained rewrite: How did the English, Spanish, Norwegian, and Danish languages evolve?