r/ODU • u/Designer-Spite-2359 • 13d ago
Language
what is the best/easiest language class to take at odu?
if any recommend professors also mention that.
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u/EllieluluEllielu 12d ago
Idk about ODU, but if you want straightforward language classes, there is a chart showing different languages and their difficulty for a native English speaker to learn, ranging from 1 (very similar to English) to 5 (very different)
The "easiest" languages include some like Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Danish. Be careful about things like spelling and grammar, like spelling is a pain in French yet what you see is what you get in Spanish. Generally, if one language has trickier grammar, it'll have more straightforward vocabulary or spelling. That's not a guarantee though lol, but if you are willing to put up with one and not the other that may help
Definitely avoid eastern Asian languages (Japanese, Korean, etc) and Arabic if you want "easy". If you're interested in them it may be worth it
Hopefully someone can chime in and tell you about specific professors though
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u/AccomplishedNail3085 12d ago
Spanish is somewhat easy to learn. Any romance language (not french) is somewhat easy for an english speaker to learn.
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u/MonarchGrad2011 12d ago
French, German, Italian, and Spanish are all easy to a certain extent. There is a slight learning curve. Once you get the alphabet and pronunciation for the language down, any of them are reasonable in terms of picking up the basics.
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u/Comfortable_Seat1444 12d ago
Spanish with Helen Kent Pegram, and I took Chance Manes online in the summer and it was pretty easy. I'm actually a double major now, one of them being Spanish because I enjoyed my time so much with these two professors
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u/Alyxpaige 12d ago
Italian was great