Easiest Languages for English Speakers to Learn

The Foreign Service Institute has arranged 61 languages by how easily an English speaker can learn them. Can you name the languages English speakers find easiest to learn?
according to langfocus.com
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Category 1
600 hours
Afrikaans
Danish
Dutch
French
Italian
Norwegian
Portuguese
Romanian
Spanish
Swedish
Category 2
750 hours
German
Category 3
900 hours
Indonesian
Swahili
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11 Comments
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Level 76
May 20, 2016
Having studied both French and Indonesian, I'd say Indonesian is as easy as it can possibly get - no past or future tenses, genders, plurals, declensions or irregularities. All you need to do is just learn more and more words!
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Level 66
May 20, 2016
Very cool! Our source is listed, though.
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Level 36
Sep 23, 2016
Papiamentu is easier still.
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Level 65
Dec 23, 2016
I understand that you use one source. Although the most easy language is Frisian I thought.
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Level 61
Jan 24, 2017
Yes but it's not recognised as an official language...it's a Dialect of the Dutch language
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Level 42
Aug 23, 2019
That's just not true.
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Level 79
Jul 23, 2019
I learned to speak Pig Latin in about 30 seconds.
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Level 66
Jul 23, 2019
That would be Category 0
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Level 27
Sep 25, 2021
this order is extremely off-
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Level 36
Aug 23, 2022
The order is the alphabet
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Level 56
Apr 4, 2024
Please make "English" an answer for 0 seconds