What is top 5 hardest languages?

Answer 1

English
Chinese
Japanese
Spanish
french

Answer 2

French is one of the easier languages to learn. Easy enough that they teach it in U.S. high schools, which means that lots of people have had an opportunity to struggle with it. That they haven't succeeded says more about the idiocy of waiting until high school to start instruction.

Andy has the best answer so far. Chinese is right up there because of the tones and the incredibly complex and sophisticated pictogram system of writing. Finnish and Hungarian are linguistically distinct from the rest of Europe, so there isn't much helping from knowing another one. I've been able to make some headway with Finnish, but Hungarian absolutely baffles me.

English is actually quite difficult to learn because it's so omnivorous, readily incorporating words and phrases from other languages. This is why there are so many different ways of spelling the same sounds. The grammar is Germanic, but a lot of the vocabulary actually comes from the Romance languages, especially French. (If you're struggling with French, try broadening your English vocabulary at the same time. It really does help.)

Hebrew is quite straight forward once you've learned a few rules. I find the boxiness of the letters difficult, which means it's the only language I'm more comfortable speaking than writing. Arabic is based on the same roots of words.

Answer 3

For English speakers:
1) Archi (the Caucasus). Each verb has 1.5 million different conjugational forms.
2) !Xóõ (southern Africa). There are 126 different consonants, over half of which are click consonants.
3) Pawnee (or any other Caddoan language) (US Great Plains). There is almost always at least one 10-syllable word in each sentence (the verb with at least 6 prefixes). Sometimes the verb (with a dozen or more prefixes) is as long as 25-30 syllables in a three-word sentence that must be translated with an entire paragraph in English.
4) Some of the Australian Native languages. Some Australian languages have extensive noun class systems where the whole sentence is complicated because the verb changes form depending on the noun class of the subject. In many cases, you must use a totally different verb when you change the subject of the sentence to a noun in a different noun class.
5) Sentinelese. No one outside the island of Sentinel speaks Sentinelese and no one on the island speaks any other language. The Sentinelese kill any strangers that come to their island. The Government of India leaves them alone and they leave the Government of India alone. Only a few words of Sentinelese have ever been published. Therefore, Sentinelese is IMPOSSIBLE to learn.

Answer 4

It depends on two things. First, what is your native language? Second, what do you mean by hardest? If your native language is English, the four hardest languages to learn are (in no order) Japanese, Arabic, Chinese and Korean.

Answer 5

1. Chinese is the most difficult language to learn according to a survey and I have to agree! (see language-learning-advisor.com) The writing system and the tone system is different meaning every word stands for a different symbol and you have no clue just by looking at the word itself on how you would pronounce it.
2. Arabic, Finnish, Japanese and Russian follow close behind as languages most people find difficult to learn with a similar reason as above.

Answer 6

Probably the sign language for the deaf mute, then the african language that uses clicking and popping noises, there is a chinese dialect spoken in south east China of a matriarchal society, not so much as hard to speak as it is hard to find some one to teach you. Of the Latin languages, I have been told portugese is most difficult. What was the language the american indians used in world war two as a code?

Answer 7

1. Chinese
2. Russian
3. Arabic
4. German
5. Mongolian

Answer 8

1.Chinese
2.Arabic
3.French
4.Hebrew
5.Russian

Below is the website I got it from

Answer 9

1. Filipino - It consists of 200 plus dialects.

2. Japanese

3. Indian

4. Islam

5. French

Answer 10

I heard Polish is very difficult
And Basque