What is the hardest language in the world?

Answer 1

No language is easy to learn well, though languages which are related to our first language will be easier. For English speakers the most difficult to learn seems to be Hungarian, which has 35 cases (forms of a nouns according to whether it is subject, object, genitive, etc). However, Tabassaran, a Caucasian language has 48 cases.

Learning a different writing system is an incredible challenge, however that does not make a language more difficult that another.

With Japanese, the challenge is even greater. Consider that the Japanese written code is different from the spoken code. You cannot learn to speak the language by reading it or the other way around. Also, there are three different writing systems: The kanji system uses characters borrowed from Chinese. You need to memorize 10,000 to 15,000 of these characters. Written Japanese also makes use of two syllabary systems: kata-kana for loan words and emphasis, and hira-gana for spelling suffixes and grammatical particles.
Finally, the difficulty of grasping the culture difference. With most languages you start by learning introductions: Buenos días. Cómo está usted?. Good morning. How are you?
Not with Japanese. There are social distinctions: Age, social status, gender.

Answer 2

Hungarian is considered one of the hardest languages to learn because it is only distantly related to Finnish.

Answer 3

I have always heard that Chinese was the hardest language to learn to WRITE...
English was the hardest language to SPEAK and to master!

English is the only language that has so many words that mean different things , depending on how it is used example: "bias" as a sewing term, and "bias" as a prejudice...
English also has the most words that are pronounced the same with totally different meanings....example: to , two, and too....also...too many different sounds for same letter groupings...
example: "oo" in tooth..."oo" in blood and "oo" in took...
(and this is ONLY one example!!!) lol!

Answer 4

English.

Answer 5

I reckon it's Celtic/Gaelic. Beautiful language, but so hard to try to emmulate.
Gaelic
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Answer 6

definetely chinese. there's over 5000 characters,, and with those characters,, you combine them to make different words,, there's probably like a million chinese words out there... who knows.
like english,, the same words could have different meanings, and different pronounciations. there are rules to how you write the words,, if you dont follow them, they'll look weird. and plus we write differently than we speak.
i'm chinese myself, and i find it extremely hard.

Answer 7

I would have to say Latin as it was an old language that died out.

Answer 8

Any language to which YOU do not have flair to /necessity to learn.
All languages are easier if you WANT to learn.

Answer 9

the "click" languages, and whatever lanugage that doesn't have a written form

Answer 10

I don't know but I heard it was either Russian or German.