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The answer to this depends on your native language. Languages fall into "families" and languages from the same family tend to use words which are similar to each other and have like meanings. Linguists call these words "cognate".

For example, the Dutch language is in the "Germanic" language family. If your native language is Dutch, you would have a much easier time learning Swedish which is also a Germanic language. Swedish and Dutch have a lot of cognates between them which will make it easier for you.

However, if your native language is Dutch and wish to learn Polish, you are going to have a more difficult time. Polish is in the "Slavic" language family which means there are fewer cognates to help you out. Likewise, a Polish person would have an easier time learning other Slavic languages like Russian or Bulgarian than our Dutch friends would have.

It all depends upon what your native language is to start with. English is an oddball language since it is in the Germanic family, but also includes a lot of words from the Romance family which we borrowed over the centuries. For this reason, a German, French or Spanish person will find it a lot easier to learn English than a Japanese or a Chinese person.

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