2006-08-09 12:08:41 · 20 answers · asked by hippowaste 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
The Archi language of the Caucasus has 1.5 million different forms for each and every verb.
The !Xóõ language of southern Africa has 126 different consonants.
The Pawnee language of the North American plains has one syllable verbs that take so many prefixes they are often 25-30 syllables long.
But the winner is Jarawa. It is spoken by about 200 people on one of the southern Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. No grammar or dictionary of Jarawa has ever been made. No Jarawa speaker speaks any other language and not a single one of the other 6 billion people on the planet speaks Jarawa. The Jarawa don't allow any outsiders on their island and the government of India doesn't allow any outsiders on their island. Therefore, Jarawa is the hardest foreign language in the world to learn because it is IMPOSSIBLE to learn.
2006-08-09 15:39:23 · answer #1 · answered by Taivo 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what language(s) you currently know. English speakers tend to find German and Dutch easy because they're similar. Spanish people find it easy to learn Italian. There isn't a single "hardest" language.
2006-08-09 12:20:55 · answer #2 · answered by stevewbcanada 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Russian
2006-08-09 13:25:43 · answer #3 · answered by Jenny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To paraphrase what other people have said above, English, because we have the weirdest phonetics of pretty much any language, and we have an exception to basically every rule. Also Chinese and Japanese (if you're an English speaker) because of all the characters.
2006-08-10 02:58:10 · answer #4 · answered by dwana49 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Often said various dialects of Chinese are the hardest. Usually because they use symbolic or pictoral alphabets, rather than phonetic like Spanish, English or Hebrew.
2006-08-09 12:11:54 · answer #5 · answered by James N 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
English. I grew up speaking german, portugese, spanish and sign language but english was the hardest to grasp for me. german or sign language might be harder for some people because of the lack of people to use it with. if you dont use it it will be harder to learn
2006-08-09 12:45:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think its chinese, it has got largest number of alphabets and its pronounciation does not seem to be comparable with other widely spoken languages. Easiest would be one which you like to learn. My favourite list of languages, I want to learn in near future are Tamil, spanish, german and sankrit.
2006-08-09 12:20:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Russian. Chinese and Japanese are not too bad but Russian has strange grammar and takes a lot of hard work.
2006-08-09 12:12:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
An Asian language if you speak English because they are so different.
2006-08-09 14:01:14 · answer #9 · answered by KM 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Polish, Because there are a lot of C's ,Z's ,W's, K 's & Y's involved. Very diffucult to read and pronounce
2006-08-09 12:21:04 · answer #10 · answered by jack07di 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋