which is the most difficult language to learn??

Answer 1

Everyone says English but it might depend on what your first language is. If you speak German as a first language for example, you might find English (a Germanic language) easier to pick up than if you spoke Japanese as a first language. Ultimately, no language is any more or less difficult to learn than any other. It depends entirely on the person learning it (their experience learning other languages, how they are taught, why they are learning, etc.).

Answer 2

Polish language is the most difficult to learn. We have things like cz, dz, rz, z with a dot which is the variation of rz, etc. Many words are nothing but a tongue twister for a foreigner. Try to say Rzeczpospolita or Szczebrzeszyn ;)

Chinese is a close second. I've learnt on my phonetics lesson that it's a tonic language and it's easy to offend someone by using the wrong intonation.

Answer 3

Depends when you start learning it and how similar it is to your first language. When you're younger or if you already know more languages picking any language up later might be very difficult. Personally it'd be chinese - just considering the amount of symbols to learn just to be able to write the basics, and the culture difference.

Answer 4

I would say Chinese or Arabic. In Chinese, they have 40,000 characters and few Chinese know even half of them, and in Arabic it is hard because a letter found in the beginning of a word is pronounced differently than the same letter in the middle of a word or the end of a word.

I would say all the languages that are not Romance languages would be hard to learn because most of them have different alphabets than we do. Pidgon English such as in Papua, New Guinea is not easy to learn either.

For hearing people ASL Sign Language is difficult to learn since most of it is facial expressions and not word for word.

English is one of the most difficult languages to learn for foreigners because of words like:

Rough
Cough
Through

and many others. English is not a logical language. Most of it, has so many different pronunciations for the same group of letters and words like debt, you don't pronouce the b, etc.

Answer 5

I remember we had a discussion on this very topic back in college. According to my teacher, Chinese was the hardest because of all the different glyphs/symbols one had to know, and English was second because of all the oddball gramatical exceptions. Height & weight, gone, one, cone, & done, all those words that should sound alike but don't, make English very difficult to learn for foreigners. Not to mention word usage - looking a word up in the dictionary doesn't show how it is actually used in a sentence.

Answer 6

Something like Chinese, especially if you were learning their alphabet!!!

English is difficult because sometimes it does not make sense. It isn't always phonetic. Example:

Prounounce SAY
Now pronounce SAYS
Say is like S-long A- Y
Says is like S-E-Z
Who can explain that?

There are lots and lots of other things, such as the plural of house is houses, but mouse is mice? Yikes!

Try asking what is the easiest foreign language. I would go with Spanish, because every vowel sounds the same!

Answer 7

For those non- speakers, I believe English would be among the most difficult to learn.

Answer 8

English is the most difficult

Answer 9

I would say everything is possible and try try again. There is no difficult language in this world.

Answer 10

Every language has some things that are "easy" and some things that are "difficult".