learn an african language

Sunsets are pretty I love them. One day I’d like to go to Hawaii and watch the sunset go down, I know it would be a beautiful scenery.

Takes too much energy. For now, English will do, thank you very much. Btw, English is also not my mother-tongue, so I can already speak a foreign language! Definitely one day, but not now.

sometime in the next five years I want to join the peace corps and head to Africa.

But should I start learning the languages now? and if so, which one is more widely used?

which one is the easiest?

how long should I expect to study to actually learn it?

My Afrikaans father grew up in the deep rural areas where the Zulu language is spoken and he had to be taught his mother-tongue by age two, because his parents only ever spoke Zulu instead of Afrikaans at home, for the sake of the helpers on the farm. I already know quite a fair amount of words, but still need to learn how to speak, read and write to follow in his footsteps.

http://www.languageteachingcentre.co.za/xhosa.htm – offers 4 week crash courses in Xhosa or Zulu

http://www.bostonlanguagecollege.com/xhosacourses.html

http://www.xhosafundies.co.za/

http://www.interlink.co.za/english-courses.html – private lessons

http://www.phaphama.org/index.php?sid=25&l=eng – cultural immersion visits

i’m wondering which african language is the easiest to learn! if there are any speakers out there of african languages, help me! :)