Thinking of an easy language to learn? If you are an English speaker, German might be easy. After that, learn Danish or Norwegian or Swedish. If you learn either Danish or Norwegian or Swedish you could understand the other two languages. Why? They come from a language FAMILY. Like if you know Dutch, you'll be able to understand some Afrikaans. Yes, today we are talking about the GERMANIC languages that include German(hence the name), English, Dutch, Norwegian and many others. You can see the video of the North Germanic languages here . Now you know how easy it is to learn a Germanic language(Although the grammar in German is a bit tough)! You can visit Duolingo to learn a Germanic or any other language. Have fun learning!