2007-01-21 00:56:07 · 34 answers · asked by zhang 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
English is one of if not the hardest to learn due to so many words being spelt the same but meaning different things and so many words having silent letters in them.
2007-01-21 01:02:40 · answer #1 · answered by CHRIS P 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
For me it would have to be something like an Oriental language or Arabic, simply because the alphabet is so different.
Having a familiarity with three languages I can say English is not that difficult, the grammar is simple, plurals you add an s, and monosyllable words are easier to remember than longer words. I am not saying it is the easiest language, but it is not the hardest.
2007-01-21 13:11:58 · answer #2 · answered by Steve P 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The hardest language, hmmm. Again a debatable question.
Each language is dependant on the complexity it presents to potential students, and the desire and mental discipline that those students command. English is a contender because of all its bastardizations, idioms and exceptions. EG: Add an 's' to make it plural, but not all the time. I before E except after C, with exceptions of course.
Navaho (Navajo) is also. They used Navaho as a code language in the Pacific because of its complexity during World War II.
Ĝis!
2007-01-21 10:09:00 · answer #3 · answered by Jagg 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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I live in New York City, I wanted to go to a French language teacher but that would have cost me over $800 per month. Good thing with this internet, $800 it's a lot of money for me.
2014-08-11 00:38:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really depends on what your native language is. For example for a native-English speaker Ukrainian might seem to be a hard language to learn whereas to a native-Russian speaker it would be a lot easier because Russian and Ukrainian are closely related. Following that, I guess the hardest languages to learn would be the languages that aren't really related to any other living languages. For example (as someone noted already above) the Basque language.
2007-01-21 02:15:24 · answer #5 · answered by Yeva 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
BASQUE - It's a language spoken in North-Central Spain and South-Western France. It's viewed by the majority of language experts as the world's hardest language to learn because it has no relation to any other language that exists or any language that has existed.
2007-01-21 01:30:38 · answer #6 · answered by Lil'D 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It really depends a lot on what language your mother tongue is. Japanese people find it not too bad to learn Turkish, even though it's not related to Japanese at all because they're structures have similarites (mainly word order). However English people are gonna find Turkish a lot harder as they won't have the Japanese advantage of having a similar word order to Turkish.
This is not saying of course that irregulaties and illogical spelling don't make a language harder but if you're not used to doing certain grammatical stuff in your own language like cases, then you're gonna find it a lot harder in the language you're trying to learn.
2007-01-21 04:12:56 · answer #7 · answered by Tom31 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends....
What's your mother language?
What alphabet your language is written in?
the most hardest language to learn doesn't exist, it's just a point of view.
2007-01-21 01:19:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It seems to me you find English difficult...'most hardest'...really!!!
Welsh is my first language but it must be difficult to learn,some so-called Welsh people have lived here for years and still can't string a sentence together.
2007-01-21 01:27:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mandarin: No alphabet, thousands and thousands of individual pictures to memorize so you can read it.
As if that isn't tough enough, then there are also the tones. Each syllable must have its own spoken tone. The tone changes the entire meaning of the word.
Learning Mandarin is almost like playing three-dimensional chess.
2007-01-21 03:44:14 · answer #10 · answered by Mario 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arabic. I am bilingual (Arabic-English) and I know by experience. I also know many people who have a BA in Arabic and still make mistakes when speaking! The lettering is also very difficult. Each letter has a different shape depending on what letters precede and what come after it. There are also sounds that speakers of English find impossible to make like: 'ain, ghain, kha, hHa, thHa...Good luck.
2007-01-21 01:27:19 · answer #11 · answered by Pichka 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋