which is the most difficult language to learn and which is the easier?

Answer 1

The easiest language to learn is the one that your primary caregiver speaks. If your mother is your primary caregiver speaks English, you will naturally prefer to speak English, even if you learn one or more other languages simultaneously.

Children can easily learn three languages. If the mother speaks one language, and the father speaks another, and a nanny or baby-sitter speaks a third, the child will grow up speaking all three. He or she can learn other languages as s/he gets older.

Most Westerners find Japanese a very difficult language to learn, but there are millions of Japaese children who have no difficulty speaking, even reading, the language.

Spanish is a fairly easy language to learn; it sounds almost exactly as it is written. However, I find it difficult to write accents correctly, and I often confuse masculine and feminine nouns.

English spelling is very confusing, even for many natives. Many non-natives find lots of English words in their own languages, so it is not all that difficult for people to learn. Widespread exposure to English through music, movies, television, in airports, etc. also means that it is fairly easy to pick up.

Most people find French rather difficult because of the pronunciation, although it is not terribly difficult to read.

Another factor is exposure to other languages. For someone who is not familiar with the Latin alphabet, any Western language will be difficult to learn. If you learn Spanish, Italian or Portuguese should not cause many problems.

In sum, there is no easy answer to your question. Languages differ, as does each individual. What I find easy may be difficult for you, and vice versa.

Answer 2

i speak english as a first language and got really fluent in italian after a couple of years living in italy. even though english is a germanic language, it has a HUGE number of words with latin roots. which means that learning german, although difficult, wouldn't be as difficult as, say, mandarin or arabic.

like lots of people said, learning a language that doesn't use a latin alphabet would probably be the hardest part.

in my opinion, you'll find it a lot easier to learn another language, at least how to speak it, if you understand the structure of your own language well. i teach english as a foreign language, and knowing english so well has made it SO much easier to learn a foreign language. this is because i know exactly what type of phrase or sentence i want to translate into the foreign language.

all languages are systems, you just have to get familiar with the system.

Answer 3

Based on the grammatical rules, English is the most difficult language to learn. This lead to the conclusion that most of the Indo-European languages with their complex grammatical rules are pretty difficult to learn.

Any of the romance language (Spanish, french,and Italian), as they are "highly interrelated would be the easiest to learn for a person with the mother tongue of indo-European ancestry.

Answer 4

The most difficult language to learn is English. Reason for that is the variety of languges that comes to gether to form this language. The easiest language is the one you have learned from you were a baby.

Answer 5

From the point of view of an English speaker, usually Mandarin Chinese is considered the hardest language to learn. As for the easiest, I don't know but I'd imagine one of the nearby European languages, maybe French or Spanish, or possibly Dutch or German as they are part of the same family of languages as English.

Answer 6

Any of the African click languages (Khoisan languages - e.g. Nama).

For anyone who hasn't heard them they are completely different to any other language on the planet... they use a lot of very strange click sounds (unsurprisingly) and are hardly spoken anywhere outside the Kalahari desert in Southern Africa... much more difficult to get your head around as a concept than Chinese or Japanese...

Easiest very much depends on your first language. If you speak Spanish, Italian is a doddle. If you can speak Hindi you won't struggle too much with Marathi. Ditto Norwegians learning Swedish... etc. etc.

Answer 7

The easiest languages to learn are those with the same root as your own.

For example; English and French both stem from a latin base and due to their proximity geographically, share many of the same or similiar words.

The hardest are languages which do not even share the same written form as our own, for example Chinese Mandarin Cantonese etc.. which is pictorial, or Russian which is Cyrillic. These are hardest purely because we must learn a whole new alphabet and thought process to be able to speak them.

Arabic is probably one of the hardest for most british and american folk due to it's unusual written form and it's relaxed spoken form.

Answer 8

Nobody had said anything about Turkish (except Noxeca
) but it's really one of the most difficult languages. It has about 5000 years past. They had lived in Asia, Indian Area, Middle east, Africa and Europe with a huge different society (for example China,Arabs,Europes). In Turkish there are about 800.000 words. diffrent grammer, one word has 8-10 diffrent mean etc. In the world 250.000 - 300.000 people speak Turkish especially in the middle east, asia, and europe (there are about 7 million Turkish who lives in europe this number is more than almost all countries' population in EU)

For Europe the hardest language is Turkish and Japanese.

the easiest one is Spanish and Italian.

that's all it ;)

Answer 9

depends what you speak, but for an English speaker:

hardest

Mandarin
Japanese
Arabic
Korean
and I've heard Finnish is brutal

easiest

Spanish
French
Dutch
just about any Scandinavian language (except Finnish)

It's interesting that, wacky pronunciation aside, English is actually quite easy to learn. The verb system is straightforward, nouns are weakly inflected, and there are really no masculine/feminine nouns, they're all pretty much neuter.

Answer 10

I think English would be very hard to learn, there's so many goofy rules and none of it makes any sense. For me Spanish wasn't too diffucult and I suppose Italian would be pretty much the same as those two languages have so many similarities.