WHich langueage is harder?

Question

Japanese, Chinese, or Vietnamese?

I meant how to pronouce words.

Answer 1

One of the hardest things for English-speakers to master when learning to speak a foreign language is tones. For pronunciation, I'd say the order of difficulty, then, is Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese. Vietnamese has 6 tones, standard Mandarin 5, and Japanese 0.

Answer 2

Japanese, followed by Chinese, and then Vietnamese. Both Japanese and Chinese use symbols to convey each word, kind of like Egyptian hieroglyphs. Each word has to be memorized with suttle distinctions between each symbols can change the meaning completely. While ancient Vietnamese uses similar style of writing as Chinese, Spanish and French imperialism romanticized the language to use the Roman Alphabet. This helps with the pronounciation.

You can sit down and read Vietnamese and many native speakers will be able to understand what you read while you have no clue what you just said. A lot of Chinese names are being romanticized so it is easier now to study Chinese with the romanticized wordings and pronounciations. Once you get used to it, then you study the symbols. The Japanese language is most complex in that it uses three different types of glyphs: Chinese character styles, two syllabic scripts to form words. Studies often come from the use of phonics and memorization.

Answer 3

Japanese is not that hard. There are a limited number of sounds, and once you learn to pronounce them you can say any word. Also, Japanese has 2 phonetic alphabets that are not too hard to learn. You can spell Japanese words with these without learning the pictographic alphabet (Kanji).

Chinese, on the other hand, has inflections that affect word meaning, so it's harder for a foreigner to get pronounciation right. It is all pictographs, so learning to write is more difficult.

I don't know anything about Vietnamese.

Answer 4

well, they all have slang and expressions and stuff, but I think vietnamese would be hardest because there are some chinese characters in Japanese, so if you know one it'd be easier to learn the other and I don't think Vietnamese has any relations.

Answer 5

I believe they say Japanese is the hardest of the 3.

Answer 6

They're all really hard, but if I were to pick one, I'd say Chinese or Japanese.

Answer 7

japanese

Answer 8

I would say all of them.

Answer 9

all of them

Answer 10

I agree, all of them...