# Persons who have studied 2 or more languages additional to your milk tongue: which was easiest?

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**Created:** [April 10, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-who-have-studied-2-or-more-languages-additional-to-your-milk-tongue-which-was-easiest/685822 "2014-04-10T21:41:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-who-have-studied-2-or-more-languages-additional-to-your-milk-tongue-which-was-easiest/685822/41 "2014-04-12T08:58:43Z")

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I’ve studied English, Swedish, German, Spanish and Russian, in that order. My second language, English, was the easiest by far, although I suspect if I had started Spanish at the same time, it would’ve won (I progressed in Spanish much quicker with less work than in any language besides English, it really seems a friendly one). Other than that, subsequent languages have not been progressively easier -quite the contrary. German was hard, and Russian the hardest, by a mile.

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