Just learn Spanish. It's almost the same, it blended lots of words from Iberian
languages and the spelling it's even more simple.
But in terms of pure practicality, learning Spanish is tough to beat. It's generally the best candidate second language for English speakers to learn.
(Sorry if I butcher the Romantic grammar!)
La gramática del español es relativamente muy compleja, (muy buena para una lengua natural). Por eso están las múltiples lenguas contruídas desde el Latin: Interlingua, latín flexiones, etcétera o como hay otros (¿compatibles?)...
Spanish grammar is relatively very complex, (very good for a natural language). Thus there are the multiple languages built from Latin: Interlingua, Latin without inflexions, and so on as there are another compatible ones...
The words under the parentheses are doubts on the meaning...
But at least you got the 95% of the meaning in Spanish.
No, it isn't
> it blended lots of words from Iberian languages
No, it didn't