What is the most difficult language?

Question

To learn?

Answer 1

Russian by far is the most difficult language to learn and master.

Answer 2

We are often asked what is the most difficult language to learn, and it is a difficult question to answer because there are a lot of things to take into consideration. Firstly, as a first language, or mother tongue, the differences are unimportant, so the question of how hard a language is to learn only arises in the area of second language acquisition.

A native speaker of Spanish will find Portuguese much easier to learn than a native speaker of Chinese, for example, because Portuguese is very similar to Spanish, while Chinese is very different, so first language is an important factor. the more different a language is from our mother tongue, the harder it will be to learn. Many people answer that Chinese is the hardest language to learn, possibly influenced by the thought of learning Chinese characters, and the pronunciation of Chinese does appear to be very difficult for foreign learners. However, for Japanese speakers, who already use Chinese characters in their own language, the writing will be less of a challenge than it will for people from languages using the Roman alphabet.

Some people can learn languages naturally and easily without much effort, while others find it very difficult, so natural aptitude for language learning is another factor. Teachers and the circumstances in which we learn also play an important role, as well as the motivation for learning. If people learn a language they need to use, they often learn it faster than people studying a language that has no direct use in the lives.

There is no single answer to this question; it depends on so many factors. However, the British Foreign Office has looked at the languages that diplomats and other embassy staff have to learn and has worked out which they find the most difficult to learn. The second hardest is Japanese, which probably comes as no surprise to many, but the language that they have found to be the most difficult to learn is Hungarian, which has 35 cases (forms of a nouns accoring to whether it is subject, object, genetive, etc). This does not mean that Hungarian is the hardest language to learn for everybody, but it causes British diplomatic staff, who are used to learning languages, the most difficulty. However, Tabassaran, a Caucasian language has 48 cases, so it would probably cause more difficulty if British diplomats had to learn it.

Different cultures and individuals from those cultures will find different languages more difficult. In the case of Hungarian for British learners, it is not a question of the writing system, which is alphabetic, but the grammatical complexity, though native speakers of related languages may find it easier, while struggling with languages that we find relatively easy. No language is easy to learn well, though languages which are related to our first language will be easier. Learning a completely different writing system is a huge challenge, but that does not necessarily make a language more difficult that another. In the end, it is impossible to say that there is one language that is the most difficult language in the world.

Answer 3

This is a question for who ? Because for example a native speaker of Spanish would find Portuguese very easily , but a Chinese I don't think so ... And for us Chinese is very difficult because has another alphabet , another writing etc . But from all European languages , English are the most difficult to learn to read , and the grammar of all Latin languages is very difficult for English speakers ... So depends what point of view you have like speaker .

Answer 4

I believe it was a language found on an island or a group of islands near Fiji.
One of the most difficult languages to learn are Finnish, English, and French.
A friend showed me his language kit and it said Croatian and Serbian (until recently, it was referred to as Serbo-Croatian which is basically the same language with a few differences) are the most easiest European languages to learn.

Answer 5

I'd hazard a guess than any language I know the name of off-hand would be easier to learn than any of the hundreds of languages spoken in Papua New Guinea, many of which I would guess no one has ever tried to learn as a second language. The languages of primitive people tend to be extremely complex (complicated tenses, cases, genders, etc.) apparently partly because no one needs to learn them as adults.

There's NO way English is the hardest to learn--it may be difficult to master but there are just TONS of resources and tens of thousands of teachers specialized in teaching it.

Answer 6

I once read that the US government makes a ranking of languages according to their degree of difficulty for a native speaker of English. And the most difficult ones were considered to be Arabic, Chinese, Korean and Russian. I guess it's up to you if you want to trust what the government says or not.

Answer 7

It depends on your native language and your talent. There's no such thing as the most difficult language, although some language may be perceived as difficult by many people.

Answer 8

Armenian Language cz not Armenians don't know the language so it's the hardest one to learn, cz if you can see almost all the languages in the earth are talked from other people too but Armenian is one of the rare languages which no one knows it .

Answer 9

Spanish has a lot of tenses, and all things have gender, formal and informal speech, a mountainload of accents, they have accents in the vowels, an extra letter that looks like the n with a thingie over it, the h doesn't sound at all except when it has a c or an s before it...
Spanish all the way. Or japanese. They have three ABCs (hiragana, katakana and kanji), with a lot of strokes for every syllabe you write, formal and informal ways to speak...

Answer 10

The language which you tried to learn but couldn't