Which Language is the most difficult to learn??

Question

Which Language is the most difficult to learn in the world??Cantonese??French??or something else??

Answer 1

it depends on your first language, and if you know your own language.

if your leaning a new language, you gotta relearn the grammar of your own with it.

if you speak english any language that doesn't write with the alphabets will be hard.

i think.

french would be easy, but you know i know a lot of french and i learned a lot of it from english.

i had to learn intransitive, transitive verbs agian with it.

so you gotta know some of your  previous languages  to learn another

Answer 2

I'd have to say Cantonese.

A lot of people say that Mandarin is pretty difficult. Well... Mandarin has 4 tones and Cantonese has how many?? Cantonese has around 7 to 9 depending on who you ask. I speak Mandarin and I find certain languages (such as French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean) very easy to learn but Cantonese has been quite hard to grasp.

Another reason why Cantonese is so difficult to learn is because, according to my friend from Hong Kong, it's a rather obnoxious language that constantly changes with puns and slang so it's also pretty hard to keep up with. But the hardest part of learning Cantonese is trying to master the traditional writing system of Chinese since they don't really use simplified characters in Hong Kong (not sure about Guandong though).

Of course, Cantonese isn't the only difficult language out there. Some other languages I think are difficult include Russian and Arabic. Russian pronunciation seems very complicated and I heard that the Arabic writing system is written from right to left (forgive me if I'm wrong).

Answer 3

Hello,

This may surprise you but many sources say the Basque language is one of the hardest. In Spain they figure it is over 10 thousand years old and the difficulty is that you cannot equate it to the other Indo - European languages. Chinese and Polish for English peoples come in second and third. Chinese because of the pitural alphabet system and Polish for noun declensions etc.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

Answer 4

Arabic, I heard it is impossible

Answer 5

it actually depends on the country you were born. I'm from the Philippines and I quickly learned how to speak Spanish because of the close similarities of the nouns and verbs.  

Answer 6

FRENCH ??? HARD???? NEVER! i speak fluent italian and french was e-a-s-y!