Postby Shiba » 2011-08-28, 18:33
The easiness of a language you learn really depends which language you're starting from. Unfortunately, I don't know Dutch. However, starting from English, I'd say Afrikaans is a generally easy language. No case-determined suffixes, and only one word for "the".
I'd also say, look at how much Swedish helps you (your profile tells me that you know a bit about it; and even if it's not much, it's certainly better than nothing). I don't know much about the Dutch/Swedish relationship either. However, I do know that the Afrikaans/Norwegian relationship is pretty good, and a lot of words are spelled exactly the same in Afrikaans and Norwegian.
Another thing to consider is how Afrikaans or Dutch may help you in learning other languages later on. Afrikaans is, weirdly enough, quite useful for Slavic languages. Completely different, but a lot of the sounds are similar.
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