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That depends on your native language. Generally, if a new language is similar to yours it ie easier to become proficient in its use.
A study by the U.S Foreign Service Institute provides some useful information on which languages are easiest to learn for English speakers.
English is damn easy
it can be learned without any teacher or anything like that
the easiest language for me is English
and of course it differs from one to another according to different factors
I am a native English speaker and a teacher of that language. I have also studied many other languages including: Latin, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Arabic.
I have been able to pick up some of many of these languages, but Spanish was the simplest for me. The language is highly phonetic; if you know how to pronounce the letters (which are the same as the English alphabet with some minor adjustments). It follows the same rules as other languages that I've been exposed to, so that hjelps as well. What really helped me to learn it was early exposure. On television, when I was a child, there was Spanish spoken in childrens' programs to help us start to learn, so I absorbed it.
Arabic also came quickly to me. I spent two years in the Yemen, working in the university system there with the U.S. Peace Corps. The training I received there helped me get the basics of the conversational language, but the fact that I was totally immersed in the language (and few locals spoke much English) forced me to adapt much more quickly and make progress in picking up the language.
Exposure and immersion have made a difference for me, but were it not for the fact that I am a linguist, the languages might not have been as easy to acquire.
The language you like more will be the easiest to learn
In my perspective, I think the easiest language to learn is the language has the same roots with the language you natively speak.For example, we all know that Latin is the origin of English, French, and German languages. So, it would be easy to shift your tongue from one to another.
I think I can't give a specific answer to this one...it all depends on the mother tongue and personal preferances and past experiences.
The easiest language to learn is US English language. It’s is a language that does not to much complicates the twist of the tongue.
