What are 5 hardest languages?

Answer 1

Japanese
Chinese
Russian
Hebrew
Latin

Answer 2

There is a Native American language that is so hard if you dont learn it before you are three years old you never will, because of the inflections and syntax have to be learned as a baby, you cant pick it up as an adult...

Now if I could only remember what its called....


other than that English is pretty tough as a second language, or so I am told by many foreign workmates, due to the dual meaning of so many words, Japanese is tough as well for the same reason, put the wrong up or down sound and youve mucked it up completely, same with Mandarin, in fact languages are difficult for most people all round, the trick is, or so I am told is not to try and translate everything in your head, just try to flow with it, I know for a fact I cant do it!

Answer 3

1) Any of the Khoisan languages of southern Africa, especially Xoo, which has about 50 different click sounds.
2) Any of the Caddoan languages of the Great Plains, especially Pawnee and Arikara, which put up to 20 different prefixes on each verb.
3) Archi of the Caucasus, which has 1.5 million different forms for each verb depending on tense, aspect, evidentiality, irrealis, etc.
4) Many of the Australian Aboriginal languages have separate verb words depending on the noun class of the subject or object, so that "come" is a different word for humans, for animals, for spirits, for birds, etc.
5) Northern Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language of China, which combines a HUGE consonant inventory with 6 different tones on the vowels

Answer 4

I'd say English and Chinese are some of the hardest to learn as a second language.

But there are thousands of other minor languages out there, that only some rural tribe in Africa may speak...those might be really hard and we wouldn't even know it.

Answer 5

Chinese - I learned Chinese (especially writing and reading) with blood and tears since I was 2.5 years old. Can you imagine a 3 year-old kid's homework was to write her Chinese name properly (3 characters) 100 times, total 300 characters in 1 single day?

Now I am trilingual (Chinese, Japanese, English) and want to start Italian or French (learned before but quitted)!

To me, Chinese is hard even I was brought up in Hong Kong. I spent a lot more time on learning Chinese then English or Japanese. No need to mention the other 4 languages which I have encoutered.

Answer 6

It is good to read more original answers to this question. In the Spanish Q!A, this is asked like four or five times a week... and people say, almost always: Chinese and Spanish. Yeah, they have no idea what to say, but they still want two freee points.
I can only say now that liked the answer before mine. At least it sounds informed.

Answer 7

The Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, divides the languages they teach into four groups, from easiest to most difficult, as measured by the number of hours of instruction required to bring students to a certain level of proficiency

The two numbers following each group listed below are:
1. Hours of instruction required for a student with average language aptitude to reach level-2 speaking proficiency
2. Speaking proficiency level expected of a student with superior language aptitude, after 720 hours of instruction

GROUP Iafrikaans, danish, dutch, french, haitian creole, italian, norwegian, portuguese, romanian, spanish, swahili, swedish, 480, 3

GROUP II bulgarian, dari, farsi (persian), german, (modern) greek, hindi-urdu, indonesian, malay, 720, 2+/3

GROUP III amharic, bengali, burmese, czech, finnish, (modern) hebrew, hungarian, khmer (cambodian), lao, nepali, pilipino (tagalog), polish, russian, serbo-croatian, sinhala, thai, tamil, turkish, vietnamese, 720, 2/2+

GROUP IV arabic, chinese, japanese, korean, 1320, 1+

Answer 8

everyone here is wrong! sanskrit the oldest language in the world from india is the most complex, it has words that are as long as sentences. its just that it is not spoken anymore by the major population so people dont know about it. Fact:hindi arrived form sanskrit(oh wait someone else is right)

Answer 9

Arabic,Japanese,Spanish

Answer 10

english is the most hardest to learn as a second language
arabic
chinese
japanese
vietnamese

Answer 11

the 5 hardest languages r vinemese,chinese,franch,spanish, and italian