2006-07-30 08:38:49 · 11 answers · asked by avocado 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I think the CIA has a list of them with difficulty levels. I'm not sure what it's called, but I do remember it having Arabic, Chinese, Korean and Japanese as the most difficult languages requiring over 750 hours of practice.
2006-07-30 08:44:17 · answer #1 · answered by Sammie 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no way to measure "difficult languages". A language can be difficult or easy depending on what language is your native language and what other languages you already know. The only thing that can be said for certain is the English is NOT the most difficult language in the world to learn. That's just stupidity. People who say that should try to learn Navajo, as one of the other answerers said, or Archi, which has 1.5 million different forms for each and every verb (English has 4), or !Xóõ which has 126 different consonants (English has 24).
2006-07-30 11:11:49 · answer #2 · answered by Taivo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not sure but it would have to be one of the isolated jungle tribes in south America due to lack of corresponding languages of the major languages Mandarin has always been at or near the top seems that opinion would play into this too much for an absolute answer sure web search would find it with ease but no time here
2006-07-30 08:45:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah but the only thing i know is that english is the most difficult language to learn
2006-07-30 08:43:01 · answer #4 · answered by Bob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think English would be pretty hard to learn. There are rules concerning English, and then English breaks them. It makes no sense. I'm glad it's the language I grew up with.
2006-07-30 08:58:38 · answer #5 · answered by Steph 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English is the most difficul language in the world.
2006-07-30 10:45:34 · answer #6 · answered by JAMES 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh dear, you guys have forgotten Finnish, that is one of the difficultiest languages to learn!
2006-07-30 15:22:33 · answer #7 · answered by finnish_rose 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
it depends
I'm European and Asian languages are kind of hard for me but my Korean friend speaks Japanese and Chinese perfect
still, English is his life challenge
2006-07-30 09:55:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Navajo. If you don't grow up learning to speak it, fergit it...you ain't never gonna speak it.
2006-07-30 09:34:14 · answer #9 · answered by Albannach 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, but I would guess chinese would be the hardest.
2006-07-30 08:42:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋