What language is hardest to learn?

Answer 1

For me it is French, to many past tenses

Answer 2

That's nonsense. It is not that hard to learn English. You know why? Because there is a drive to learn English. Speaking English really gives you a major leg-up in the world, and there are people everywhere that speak it, so you'd get a lot of practice. People pick up English really quickly. Besides, unlike most languages, English has no genderization of adjectives and nouns, no complex verb tenses, not as many irregularities in grammar, no accents etc. There are some strange things with english, esp. the non-phonetic nature of many words.
I'd say some of the hardest languages are Japanese/Chinese (etc.) maybe that african language with the clicks, sign language, German, French, and others with hard prononciations and such. However, by far the hardest language of all, is music. And don't say that is not a language, because it is. And it is a universal language that anyone can understand, but you can spend your whole life trying to master it. (its got a written and auditory elements, structure, everything like a conventional language, and it takes so much more to really be able to "speak" it.)

Answer 3

The Assembly computer programming code I hear is pretty tough. Humpback whale, is probably tough too.

But as far as human (non-code) languages, the answer is relative. Quoting the source below, "the British Foreign Office has looked at the languages that diplomats and other embassy staff have to learn and has worked out which they find the most difficult to learn. The second hardest is Japanese, which probably comes as no surprise to many, but the language that they have found to be the most difficult to learn is Hungarian, which has 35 cases (forms of a nouns according to whether it is subject, object, genitive, etc). This does not mean that Hungarian is the hardest language to learn for everybody, but it causes British diplomatic staff, who are used to learning languages, the most difficulty. However, Tabassaran, a Caucasian language has 48 cases, so it would probably cause more difficulty if British diplomats had to learn it.

Different cultures and individuals from those cultures will find different languages more difficult. In the case of Hungarian for British learners, it is not a question of the writing system, which is alphabetic, but the grammatical complexity, though native speakers of related languages may find it easier, while struggling with languages that we find relatively easy. No language is easy to learn well, though languages which are related to our first language will be easier. Learning a completely different writing system is a huge challenge, but that does not necessarily make a language more difficult that another. In the end, it is impossible to say that there is one language that is the most difficult language in the world."

Answer 4

Every language is just as hard to learn as every other language for someone. It all depends on the language or languages you aready know.

And all the people who say that this or that language has been "proven" to be the hardest are lying. No such research or proof exists.

Here are some "hard" languages that are far harder for Europeans to learn than any others that could be mentioned. Archi has 1.5 million different conjugations for each and every verb in the language. !Xóõ has 126 different consonants, over half of which are click sounds. The Pawnee language has just a few sounds, but its words can be up to 30 syllables long and most sentences have at least one word (the verb) that is over 10 syllables long.

But on the island of Sentinel in the Indian Ocean is the Sentinelese language. No one has ever published anything other than a few words of Sentinel. No one off the island knows the language and no one on the island knows any other language. And today, if you land on the island of Sentinel, the Sentinelese will kill you. The Indian government leaves them alone and they leave everyone else alone. Therefore, Sentinelese is the hardest language to learn because it is IMPOSSIBLE to learn.

Answer 5

The dead languages are hard to learn because they aren't spoken any where, but the hardest is American English. We have so many slang terms. We use shorthand in speaking now - those on the cell phones. And we have such diverse populations in the different parts of the country. That I could go to California and probably not understand some of what they talk about.

Answer 6

I'd say Mandarin Chinese because there are some sounds in Chinese that don't even exist in English. In English at least you can spell out words and when you're learning, you'd start with the smallest words. I think even Mandarin Chinese is harder than French, which is what i'm learning right now. Italian is harder than French I think. I find that many Western, alphabet-based languages are much easier than Oriental languages. In Chinese, the concept of spelling doesn't exist because you have to learn and memorise the whole character, then learn the proper order in which the strokes are drawn. Then of course, there's grammar and things like nouns, verbs etc... in many aspects the Mandarin Chinese language is backwards to English...

Answer 7

Research says that English is one of the hardest languages to learn, so yeah.

Answer 8

English

Answer 9

It depends on what you speak. Different areas of the world use different sounds. When we are babies we can make all the sounds so could learn any language. We lose the sounds we don't need. So learning a language similar to your current one is easier than one with different sounds that you don't normally use.

Answer 10

People Say English is the hardest But I think otherwise, I think Japanese is the Hardest.

Answer 11

Mandarin Chinese
Possibly English