what do u think is the most difficult and complicated language??

Question

please add what nationality you are

Answer 1

It is obvious and accepted that Arabic is the strongest language once as a subject in high school we had to learn a littile bit of it ! It was really confusing( when you want to call someone it depends on how many they are you use different verbs and words when they are one,two,or more)also a very difficult grammer it has sounds like confusing!
English has its own difficulties also!!!!

Answer 2

I am American. The Archi language of the Caucasus has 1.5 million different forms for each and every verb. The Pawnee language of North America has one syllable verbs with so many prefixes that words are often 25-30 syllables long. The !Xóõ language of southern Africa has 126 different consonants, over half of which are click sounds. None of the languages mentioned so far has anything near this level of difficulty or complexity in a single subsystem.

However, all languages are really equally complicated, it's just that most languages have their complexity balanced over several different subsystems. The examples I gave above are extreme cases where most of the complexity of the language resides in just one or two subsystems. The other subsystems of these languages are quite simple in comparison to other languages, so that Pawnee, for example, has extremely simple sentence structure and an extremely simple sound system. Archi actually has a very small number of verbs (about 200) even though every verb has an incredibly huge number of different forms.

I like to tell students that every language has 100 points of complexity to distribute among its various subsystems and that most languages try to balance the numbers in all the different subsystems.

Answer 3

I have to agree to the Professor above me, in regard to the distribution of the complexity of a language over more of what he calls "subsystems".

However, difficulty is another thing, and I find it impossible to objectively measure this value. I think the most important to perceiving a language as difficult or easy to learn is the aspect of languages previously mastered (especially on a native basis).

To make my position clear, although modern Japanese has three alphabets (if you know how to use any one of them it is enough, though, to be able to write anything you want) and is also a tonal language (as Mandarin Chinese), its grammar structure is very simple both in terms of morphology (cathegories) and synthax (structure of the sentence and phrase). For a fairly good Chinese speaker, learning Japanese is nothing hard, though.

Arabic, however has unstable structures and complicated morphology, as well as a fairly complex sign-sound allocation system. If you speak Hebrew, though, Arabic doesn't pose very special questions.

The same goes for Latin: take a contemporary Spanish speaker (education above average) and he/she will need very little time to get into the secrets of learning this dead language, which is still living through its grammar rules (taken over even by curent day Germanic languages), as well as through a large part of its vocabulary, perpetuated without much alterations in modern languages such as Italian, Spanish, Romansh, Portuguese, Romanian, Corsican, French aso).

Difficult comes from where the student originally stands. Complicated can be measured and classified scientifically.

Answer 4

As someone who has learned a foreign language (French), I would say that the most difficult language to learn is actually English. While all languages have exceptions to rules, there are expections to exceptions to exceptions in the English language.

(I am from the United States).

Answer 5

I am american and I speak English and Spanish . i worked at AT&T in the Language Line and I was told the hardest language to learn in Mandarin Chinese. There are 3 different Chinese dialects and this was the hardest to listen to or talk. We had very few operators to call when we had a customer that spoke M. Chinese. P.S. to the person that put Latin Languages are hardest...Medicine is based on Latin, many Spanish words are almost exactamente in Espanol as in Ingles(exact in spanish as in English) soooo try with that 1st then move on to other languages. I heard Navajo is hard to cuz they have sumthin like 50 words for the word crow.

Answer 6

I've heard that the language they speak in Finland is the most difficult to learn (is that Finnish?) Followed by Chinese. Dutch seems to be quite difficult too but since I am Dutch, I've got no problem with that.

Answer 7

I have heard that Navajo is the most difficult language to learn. They used Navajo indians in WWII because no one could translate the dialect (both American and German) except the Navajo.

I have been creating a new site in Chinese, and it seems pretty complicated to me.

Answer 8

I am a Hispanic. I was born in the U.S. and had a great grandpa that was born in Mexico and grandparents from Ireland, Spain, England. I am fluent in English and a little in SPanish, but by far Japanese is the hardest language to me. My friend told me they have 3 sets of alphabets! Yikes! I'd still love to learn it though. Konnichiwa!means hello.

Answer 9

I've lived in Ireland and America and speak several languages. By far, Asian languages are the most difficult to learn. They're tonal, so the way you pitch your voice as you pronounce words affect their meaning. Pitch low to high and it means one thing, pitch high to low and it may mean something completely different.

Answer 10

English....definately....

I'm swedish - born in Sweden and my first language was Swedish.....I had to learn English and I can tell you right now it's the hardest thing I ever had to do.

Think about it - many things aren't spelled the way they sound, and vice versa. Many words are taken from other languages, and grammar has exceptions for every rule.