I have used several languages, including VB, Java, Javascript, SQL, some C#.
For creating applications, Visual Basic is fairly easy. Good starting language for applications. For web stuff, learning HTML (not a programming language but worth learning) and Javascript (a scripting language) are both useful and also fairly straightforward once you get the hang of them a bit.
EDIT: Oh and I forgot what I was going to say about VB and C#. Programs can be written and compiled from withing Visual Basic Express Edition ( and what's cool about that is it's all free )