What is the hardest language in the world to learn??

Answer 1

There are several criteria:
1.- Strangeness: it depends your mother tongue
2.- Grammar difficulties: polish (it has 7 genders, 3 number, 6 declension cases, and very irregular verbs)
3.- writing system: Japanese (every character can have up to 7 readings, mandarin instead one character 1 reading)
4.- speaking difficulties: Korean (it has over 7 honorific levels, every one with different verbs endings)

Answer 2

Two of the top 10 hardest languages in the world to learn are Hungarian and Polish. I have a feeling that the others must include Russian, Chinese, Japanese, not sure what else, but I know it's not English!! I am English and I have lots of foreign friends, and they all say that although English isn't the easiest, it's defiantly not the hardest. I have to agree, after learning Polish!

Answer 3

Depends what language(s) you were exposed to since childhood. We are born with the capacity to reproduce absolutely all the sounds there are in the world, except we train ourselves to reproduce only the ones we are frequently exposed to. So I think the hardest language in the world to learn would be the one you can't reproduce it's sounds easily.

Answer 4

Yah.. it surely depends upon your possess private weaknesses and local language. German is tough for me too as I suck at pronunciation. While, Japanese is extra immediately-ahead/ effortless to me, upon information the characters-- as it is very effortless to pronounce. Like, if English wasn't my local language, I doubt I might be trained it-- it's fairly complicated and intricate with a few matters-- like abnormal verbs.. Anyway.. hm IDK that is really a venture-- however I suppose I have heard Polish maybe the toughest language to be trained quite often....?

Answer 5

That depends on the language you already know to begin with. If you know English or any other European language, naturally Chinese would be more difficult than, say, French.

Answer 6

It's really going to depend on what you speak.

My non-English friends claim it's English because we use so many idioms, and words that sound alike, and the same word can be pronounced different ways..

The wind blows from the north.

Wind the string on the kite.

However, here's an article I found when looking for "hardest language".

Answer 7

Use properly all " parts of speech", grammatically correct or not that doesn't matter. Nobody speak very perfectly even in their own mother tongue.
(as many language same) any language that comes from front mouth, tongue with support from nose somehow easier.
According to me- Arabic language is the hardest language in the world. because most of Arabic words come from the throat and deep throat. A new learner can hardly pronounce (may be up to 5%) only

Answer 8

For an English speaker, it's definetly Thai. I say this because people who speak Thai differentiate syllables by tone or pitch of voice. If you say a word in Thai and do not make your voice go up or down at particular syllables, then Thai people will not understand you, much like how in English, it is hard to understand a foreigner who does not stress certain syllables in words, only worse. Since English speakers are used to not caring about pitch or tone of voice, it's very tedious.

Answer 9

In my experience the hardest languages to learn were

English (because it doesn't seem to follow any rules)
Chinese (because of the similar inflection tones)
Arabic (because of the massive vocabulary)

Answer 10

Any language that I am not using in my daily life and I am not interested in learning it will be difficult to learn.