what is the hardest language to learn?

Answer 1

Top three chosen most:
Gaelic
Mandarin Chinese
Click Tongues of Africa

Answer 2

Chinese is hard to speak, because of the way pitch affects meaning. It can be VERY hard to read. There is a popular story about some very well-educated Chinese people admiring a piece of Chinese writing - "Look at the strokes! Look at the balance! It's so beautifully done!". The English speaker asks, "But what does it SAY?" "Oh, we've no idea" they reply.

Navajo is almost impossible for a non-Navajo to speak naturally. During World War 2, the USA used Navajo communicators to transmit secret radio messages in a mixture of Navajo, US slang, and military jargon. The enemy could not trick them with false messages because less than 30 non-Navajos could speak Navajo at all, and none of them sounded natural.

Answer 3

I've heard from a lot of friends that English was very very hard to learn. i never really thought about it since i grew up KNOWING it. but considering how the context of some words are different for what ever meaning we are saying or other words that sound the same but are spelled differently..it's enough to make anyone go nuts i guess.

personally for me it was Spanish.
having to get used the the Masculine and Feminine...that was a bit strange.
i have a friend that speaks Arabic..he learned it in two months! i wish i could learn that fast!

Answer 4

chinese, japanese, or korean because it's not like european languages in that there's an alphabet. you have to memorize a word each time AND most chinese, japanese, and korean teachers will require you to know the order of the strokes and in which direction (i.e. up, down, left, right) also, the vocabulary can get confusing too. in chinese, there's two words for rice based on what form it's in!

but any language can be hard to learn based on whatever your native tongue is because people use all different parts of their mouth, tongue, throat, and even teeth to pronounce.

Answer 5

Any language with large amounts of tonal pronounciations ( Chinese, Arabic), complicated rules of grammar where subject/object changes ( Hungarian and Finnish), and for many people who don't speak it, English due to homonyms, slang terms, and an ever-increasing vocabulary.

Answer 6

I imagine anything oustside of your language group. Like it is easy for an Italian to speak spanish. But I bet he would be hard-pressed to learn cantonese.

Answer 7

Portuguese

Answer 8

Arabic, it is so complex and learning to write it and speaking it would be hard, then Asian languages, like Chinese, Japanese, they require the use of sounds as apposed to words, way too complex if you were raised speaking English.

Answer 9

English. I am still learning it until today and won't stop here.

Spoken English words are written differently or shall I say written English words are spoken differently.

Answer 10

Arabic. The writing looks like something a 2 year old would make up.

Answer 11

Finnish