what is the most difficult language to learn:Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Icelandic?

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or other????

Answer 1

To answer this question you should try to study Russian :-)

The total number of words in Russian is DIFFICULT to reckon because of the ability to agglutinate and create manifold compounds, diminutives.Philologists have estimated that the language today may contain as many as 350,000 to 500,000 words.Also Russian language is replete with many hundreds of proverbs and sayings. But the most complicated thing about this language is GRAMMAR.

Answer 2

Chinese is the hardest. Because you can't learn it phonetically. The similar sound but have different tone will differ the meaning.
You must learn at least 5000 characters (of ~60000 characters) and their specific sounds to be able to use it well, although there are no tenses. In fact, you don't need to understand the sounds if you can understand the characters. If you learn Russian, Japanese, Icelandic, English or any other phonetic languages, you must learn the alphabets & their sounds, then you learn the sound of the vocabulary to understand the writing language. Chinese is a pictoral language. You can undestand by reading the characters, not the sounds.

Answer 3

Russian is like any language, it has it's easier and complicated sides. For example, one thing that is easier in Russian than in most languages is that the word order can basically be however you want.. For example, there are several ways to say, "I am going to the store" 1. (я иду в магазин - ya idu v magazin) - same word order as in english but you can also say idu ya v magazin ~am going I to the store ya v magazin idu ~I to the store am going v magazin ya idu ~to the store I am going idu v magazin ya ~am going to the store I so you don't really need to think about word-orders however, grammatically, the hardest part is the verb conjugations in Russian, verbs are conjugated dependent on gender(feminine, masculine, neutral) of the noun, e.g. ya idu - I am going/walking ty idyosh - You're going/walking on idyot - He goes/walks my idyom - We are going/walking vy idyoti - You (plural) are going/walking oni idut - They are going/walking but basically, if you have the passion, you'll make it Russian is one of the few languages that really has been formed by the great amount of Russian and Ukrainian poets, so it has very beautiful synonyms, and visual words that are not found in English. It is also one of the few languages which can actually give you opportunities and open a new world. Russian music is a very big industry, so is the TV-industry and the movie industry, so you will definitely enjoy the Russian language, especially since it's the same culture (there'll not be a culture clash between an somebody from the English world and someone from the Russian world, if you compare to the difference between English speakers and Japanese) I was born in New York to a Russian father and a Swedish father, and I learned Swedish when I was little, and I started learning Russian when I was 14 years old, when I was 18 I went to Moscow and discovered the amount of great music (R&B, House music, Electro, Alternative, Rock, all sorts of music!), and I just fell in love with the beautiful lyrics, great melodies, and high-quality music videos. Learning Russian was the best thing I ever did in my life, and it has really enriched my life so much. I am able to understand historical interviews and speak to practically all of Eastern Europe and Northern Asia! It's really insane, I really do not enjoy the same benefits by knowing Swedish! The two languages can never compare to each other! I still live in America, but I almost never listen to American music, I am so bored of just hearing Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, and Jason Derulo. In Russia and Ukraine, every month sees the premiere of at least 50 (no exaggeration!) new music videos that are rotated on the main music channels, and all of these songs have meaningful lyrics, very good melodies, and high quality videos. Also, people will be very flattered if you show that you have tried to study Russian, even if it's not perfect, so you will certainly be considered for a job in Russia, since you know English to.

Answer 4

Icelandic

Answer 5

out of the languages in your list, i'd have to say Icelandic is the hardest, followed by Russian, Japanese and Chinese. Japanese and Chinese don't have past tenses, they use some words to indicate things that happened in the past, so that should be easy since a lot of languages are complicated because of the tenses.

But the hardest language to learn is Finnish, full stop.

Answer 6

Polish, Russian, Finnish, Chinese

Answer 7

I heard japanese is hardest language in the world....

But i'm sure there are many more difficult languages in the world in every part of the world...

Actually we cant say which is difficult language in the world, since in the country tanzania alone they speak over 100 languages and in india if u see, official languages itself 18,...so itz hard to say which is difficult..

If u ask to japanese, he wil say itz easy language comparing others..

So, Mother language will be easier to others comparing other languages...

Answer 8

Lithuanian is a very old and difficult language.
THough Chinese has abotu 1000 symbols which makes it hard too.

Answer 9

I will go out on a limb and say that Basque, Inuit
and Navajo are the most difficult for English
speakers to learn.

Answer 10

Probably Chinese because of the tones and the thousands of symbols.