What is the most difficult language to learn?

Question

What is the most difficult language to learn?

Answer 1

My native language, georgian. ქართული

Answer 2

for me, learning new language is not that difficult if you concentrate on it.

but, for my experience "Arabic" and Chinese is the most difficult at all.

These two language needs to be properly pronounce or else the word you have said sometimes is the opposite of the word you have just said.

Answer 3

apparently chinese/japanese/korean and a couple of others( there is a website from some american government office for foreign relations and they give those langs a 6 - most difficult for native speakers of english) but japanese and chinese aren't that bad (just the pronunciation with chinese is really difficult (for me anyway). i think of those 3 korean is the most difficult, I've started learning it time and again just to give up - the writing system is quite complicated (consonant shift depending on where the letter is) and I have difficulty pronouncing it too, although the grammar is quite easy like japanese. Chinese grammar is easy-ish too, but nothing like japanese.

Answer 4

Bengali

Answer 5

In my experience it is English as there are so many rules which are broken in English. Other languages have a more complex grammar structure but rules are seldom broken. English is difficult to learn to a very proficient standard.

Answer 6

English due to its many exceptions, quirks, and constantly evolving nature.

Asian languages are incredibly difficult too, since they don't use the Latin alphabet, have several hundred characters, and are vastly different from western languages.

Answer 7

Icelandic

Answer 8

It depends on your first language..eg

A Spaniard finds Portuguese easy but Swedish difficult,

A Swede finds Norwegian easy but Bulgarian difficult,

A Bulgarian finds Russian easy but Chinese difficult,

A Chinese finds Japanese easy but Spanish difficult.

Answer 9

Chinese?

looks like all of my friend has been studying for 4-6+ year.

Answer 10

I think chinese/japanese because the pronouncing is so difficult

Answer 11

Hello,

Thanks for your question. For me, i would have to say, Polish.

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Answer 12

English I think coz it has many roles and grammar. but in my place right now you are so genius if u can speak English fluently coz it is not our official language.

Answer 13

I think Japanese is pretty much impossible!

Answer 14

I'd say English.

Mainly because there are so many different words which mean the same thing and because many words sounds the same but aren't written the same (there, their, they're) and that can be pretty confusing. There's also the slang, and many different forms of English (Londoner's English, Northern English, American English etc.)

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Answer 15

Any language that doesn't use Latin Alphapet letters, like Chinese, Arabic and so on.

Answer 16

Russian is very difficult (I'm native)

French

Italian

English too

Chinese - a lot!

Answer 17

Malayalam

Answer 18

I think there was some sort of survey regarding that... it concluded that the most difficult language to learn is Basque.

And that Japanese is a little more tougher to learn than Chinese

Of course, being a native speaker of English - it doesn't seem like - but apparently English is tough to learn.

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Answer 19

I'd probably think Japanese or Chinese - although I love to see chinese words written out. I learnt French, German and a bit of Spanish years ago and they were quite easy to pick up although I can't remember half of it now.

Answer 20

In my opinion, all the East European (Russian,Slovakian, Bulgarian,Finnish etc.) and Asian languages (most of Asian languages are from Buddhism and Hinduism, and they vary each countries eg. Burmese, Bhutanese,Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Sanskrit etc.)

Answer 21

arabic

icelandic

norvegian

chinese

and italian [my native language]

estonian

Answer 22

It's probably down to the individual. I am English, so that came naturally to me. I also learned Chinese and didn't find it too difficult.

Answer 23

What is the hardest language to learn?

Extremely Hard: The hardest language to learn is: Polish-Seven Cases, Seven Genders and very difficult pronunciation. Average English speaker is fluent at about the age 12; the average Polish speaker is fluent in their language not until age 16. .

Very Hard: Finnish, Hungarian, and Estonian-These languages are hard because of the countless noun cases. However, the cases are more like English prepositions added to the end of the root.Pretty Hard: Ukrainian and Russian complex grammar and different alphabet but easier pronunciation. Serbian-Also similar to other Slavic languages with a complex case and gender system, but it also has many tenses. alphabet

Fairly Hard: Chinese and Japanese-No cases, no genders very easy grammar, however, writing is hard. But to speak it is easy. Also intonations make it harder but certainly not harder than Polish pronunciation. I know a Chinese language teacher that says people pick up Chinese, but he speaks several languages and could not learn Polish.

Average: French-lots of tenses but not used and moderate grammar. German-only four cases and like five exceptions, everything is logical, of course.

Easy: Spanish and Italian

Basic to hard: English, no cases or gender, you hear it everywhere, spelling can be hard and British tenses you can use the simple and continues tense instead of the perfect tenses and you will speak American English. English at the basic level is easy but to speak it like a native it’s hard because of the dynamic idiomatic nature.

Answer 24

english probably

Answer 25

It´s a relative answer, because all depends on your mother language. By example, if you are a English speaker trying to learn Spanish, you will have a hard time due grammar differences: the articles have gender, the accents, ext. If is otherwise, you will crack your head with Phonetics: while Spanish have about three or lees more phonemes than letters, english have tons extra phonemes than letters, and that get hispanics english learner go crazy.

Also a fact that must taken in count are the root languages. For an English Speaker would be easier to learn German than a french speaker, because both German and English have the same root language: the germanic languages. Spanish, French, Portuguese... are Romance Languages, so is relatively easy to learn one if you know another, specially if you have a very good latin background to know word roots.

So, the hardestlanguages to know are a combination of the ones whose root language is ffarthestfrom were you from plus how much harder is the other language´s linguistics ccharacteristicscomparing it with your mother language. Everyone feels hard to learn Chinese for its whole different structure, but Chinese people find English grammar quite simple comparing it to theirs (a chinese roomate told me that once). An obvious exception is Euskera, or Basque Language, from roots are completely unknown. This language is only spoken by a very few amount of people in the Basque Region of Spain and France.

So, I would say Basque, a language that have no concection with other linguistic roots, as an universal hard-to-learn language, but as I said, this is a very relative judgment.

Answer 26

The most difficult language to learn is very hard to determine but old languages which use a different character or rune for every word are very hard to learn as you have to remember how to write different characters for every word. Also if you don't know a word, there is no sounding it out; to ask about it you need to show it to someone. Languages like those include Chinese(both simplified and traditional), Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and basically languages which aren't European in origin.  Chinese also has words that are pronounced the same but have a different tone so they mean a different thing.

Languages like Spanish and French are considered very easy to learn because the rules in the language have few exceptions and in comparison to English, few words. English on the other had however has thousands of words with one meaning, or similar meaning and thousands of exceptions to every rule. This may be because the English language has a mixed origin, it is influenced by both a Scandinavian language and Latin.

Oh yes, and thing about slang and English, this is true for very many languages. Notably Chinese, every Province (and there are many of those) has basically a different one. If you spoke in a Beijing accent you wouldn't even be able to understand a person who spoke traditional Shanghai accent (Grandpa and I) even if you spoke Chinese as your first language. With English its different, an American can understand and Australian and and Australian can understand the English.

Answer 27

Chinese

Answer 28

English definately.

Answer 29

English is the most difficult to learn as much of the grammar and sentencing is so much different to any other language (many of it not making logical sense).

However i'm presuming that you know english so if you want the most difficult language besides english I would have to say chinese (or more specifically mandarin). In fact mandarin is the most spoken language in the world so it's actually quite useful to know it too.

Answer 30

With my experience I can surely say that french is ONE of the most difficult languages .