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It really depends not only on the language you're learning, but your native language, where you're living, the purposes you're learning the language for, and your own confidence and standards for your language learning. There is no "easiest language to learn" at all, but you will learn a lot easier and quicker if you're learning a language closely related to your own. For instance, an English native speaker will be able to learn Scots or Dutch much "easier", in general, than if they were trying to learn Tagalog or Xhosa. You will also inevitably learn more quickly if you're immersed fully in the language, using it constantly from day to day. However, that will usually happen if you're living in a country where that language is the primary language, and in that setting your personal standards for the language will probably rise. If you're only trying to speak the language as a second language at home or something, you probably will feel confident enough to do that more quickly than if you're trying to interact with native speakers in their own country. I think most of all though it's important not to put too much emphasis on the end goal of "fluency", and rather to focus on each little goal on the way, like being able to hold a quick conversation, then being able to hold a conversation with a native speaker, being able to talk about technical topics and politics etc.

For me, I think my biggest weakness at the moment is more with my learning process than the language itself. I have been going at this for so little time that I can't really evaluate my own progress effectively yet, but I do know that I have had several false starts with learning Polish. I need to make sure that I can actually commit and get past this initial hump of starting to learn. At the moment it feels like there's so much to do, and I have no idea where to start, so it's very hard to keep going. I just need to have the determination to get going, and I know it will start to get easier. Especially as I know that when I get to a good enough level, I will be able to start having conversations with my dad in Polish, and that'll help a lot. But until then, it's a big challenge just to get going.

In those constructions, the tense is marked on the auxilliary "do", rather than the verb itself. The verb will always stay in its "infinitive" form (uninflected), so you mark tense, person, number and aspect etc. on "do" instead. So, examples: I didn't eat it He does understand, right? Didn't they go there last night?

Hello! I'm an English 22 year old, currently studying Law after completing a Linguistics degree. I have Polish family, but didn't acquire the language natively, and haven't managed to get around to learning it as a second language until recently. I'm making slow progress, because my time is a little disorganised at the moment, but I'm keen to get a bit more practice in and help my way along. As the linguistics degree should indicate, I love language as a human function even more than I love any individual language or the process of learning it, so I'm very much looking forward to getting involved in a forum where I can really get into language-nerd conversations. Look forward to talking to you all around the forum.