What is the hardest language to learn?

Question

To me, It is Russian, I have been learning it for like 5 months and it has gotten me to about nowhere, what is the hardest language in your opinion?

Answer 1

According to studies, English is, but if you were raised speaking English, of course it wouldn't seem like it.
There are so many words that sound the same, but are spelled differently. There are also words that have double meanings. There are strange plural rules. And lots of other pain in the butt rules.

Answer 2

English is the hardest language to learn.
It has more words than any other and more grammatical rules, and many exceptions to those rules.
Mainly because it has been added to over the centuries with new words from other languages. It's not really just one simple language it is a mix of a dozen or so.
The proof is in the fact that many English speaking people themselves don't know the full language, spelling errors, pronunciation and wrong words used in conversation.
Ask any teacher or language specialist and they will tell you the same thing.
Good luck with the Russian language.

Answer 3

It all depends what language you speak to start with. If you're Dutch, learning English is fairly easy; if you're Chinese it's very difficult. If you're English, Russian might seem hard, but not so much if you were born in say, Uzbekistan.

A language's difficulty will in part depend on how distant it is from your own language. But also some languages are clearly harder than others because of grammar rules and size of vocabulary etc. Arabic is clearly more complex than Esperanto.

Answer 4

English

Answer 5

I am learning Romanian for the last 1 and half years.Now I am alone in my class as all of my class mates ran away from the class. The language is very difficult and moreover there are so many cases and the grammar is so lengthy( It is similar to Russian) taht even I have not any confidence taht what I am speaking is correct or not.

Answer 6

I would say this 3:
1) Finnish - it's not indo-european language (so nothing sounds familiar) and it got exceptionally complicated grammar (think 14 declinations and some other stuff too).
2)Hungarian - just remotely related to Finnish (like English and Urdu for example), equally hard to learn
3) I think officially the hardest language to learn is what they speak in Greenland, I think it's called Greenlandic and there is no similar language to it.
Compared to these, I would say English is very easy

Answer 7

English is by far the hardest language because of all its grammatical rules, but Czech is a very close second. It takes a non-native speaker an average of 13 years to become fluent at best.

Answer 8

I'd say studying Korean is rather effortless as Hangeul(or Hangul) is alphabetic. But I bet you are European or American, then it could be rather problematic so that you can gain knowledge of Korean considering of the exceptional tradition, grammar and so forth. According to the up to date research of the US Government Accountability Office, Korean is labeled as a superhard language along side Arabic, Chinese and Japanese. BUT you understand, whilst you find irresistible to do whatever, you simply experience it! So if you are fascinated about studying Korean, you can more often than not experience it and gain knowledge of it rapidly. And I feel Korean is an overly tasty language. One of my Vietnamese peers as soon as informed me that she notion the Korean language had an overly lovely sound, in particular whilst she heard enthusiasts speakme with each and every different. Of direction, it is her opinion...At any price, for those who begin to gain knowledge of Korean, I wish you experience it! (BTW, I've under no circumstances heard Korean speakme persons announcing chokilrit or teipoo rakoda or chaejoo/jahjoo. They mainly say chokoret/chokollit, teipeu rekodeo/rekoduh and jaejeu after they say the ones phrases in Korean. Maybe the character who wrote approximately this notion the identical with me however might be simply considering of the exceptional methods of the romanization of the Korean language....:-))

Answer 9

I think Russian is the hardest language, too! I have been struggling with it on and off for years. However, I am stubborn and don't want to give up on it completely.

Answer 10

I've been told numerous times that English is the most difficult language to learn *as a second language*. This is because there are so many irregular verbs and so many exceptions to rules of grammar, all of which have to be learned and remembered. By comparison, the French language has only 22 irregular verbs to remember.

Answer 11

To me, that would be Chinese, or any tonal language, I have no ear for it. And Russian is an easy one compared to a lot of others, if your problem is the writing system.

If your trouble is with the case system for nouns and adjectives, I'll grant you're out of luck, only possible worse cases would be Baltic languages (Lithuanian and Latvian), if it's the verbal conjugations you hate, don't even go near Greek.