French? German? Dutch? Spanish? Italian? Portugese?
2007-02-20 01:48:44 · 10 answers · asked by callmemisscutie 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
i don't know all the languages, but i think it's french. I speak and write french since i was...very young. Now I'm in a English system, and to be honest, after 6 months, i can write more than speak it. I speak it, but not very quickly as people do. But i can write it without problems. The grammar is sample. I'm learning German now, and it's pretty easy. I have a lot of fun. German is pretty much the same thing as English. Spanish is near to French. I write it . In french......It's a sadness, it's so strict! but it's a beautiful language that i like a lot even though it's complicated.
2007-02-20 02:19:52 · answer #1 · answered by kaloo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beginning with the hardest I would order as follows:
1. Polish
2. German
3. French
4. Spanish, Portuguese
6. Italian
7. Dutch
2007-02-20 02:24:02 · answer #2 · answered by QQ dri lu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strictly in terms of GRAMMAR and not considering the sound systems, the easiest of the list you gave would be Dutch and German since English Grammar is pure Germanic. There are differences, but the way you put sentences together in English and German and Dutch is very close.
Beyond the list you gave, there are many languages and language families that differ radically from English in terms of Grammar. It would be hard to identify one that is the most difficult for English speakers to master. I have a linguist friend who has intensively studied the Arikara and Pawnee languages of the American Plains for 30 years. He still cannot put together a complex sentence in those languages. They are very, very different from English. Hungarian and Finnish are different, but not so radically different. Hungarian was fairly easy for me. Chinese is fairly straightforward for English speakers. Typically, those languages that build longer and more complex words rather than longer sentences are more difficult for English speakers--Eskimo, Pawnee, Australian Aboriginal languages, and Bantu languages, for example. Russian, mentioned above, is not so difficult as these since it is an Indo-European language and most of its grammatical processes will be familiar to English speakers at some level, especially if they have studied any other Indo-European language.
2007-02-20 02:10:45 · answer #3 · answered by Taivo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All of those languages you mention are relatively easy for an English speaker. The grammar of those languages is not too different from English's.
I've heard (among European languages) that Finnish and Hungarian are the hardest. Over a dozen of case endings for each.
2007-02-20 01:57:04 · answer #4 · answered by JP 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
English is my 2nd language and German is the hardest one as the 3rd language. I find French grammatically easier but I had hard time in pronounciation!
2007-02-20 05:45:22 · answer #5 · answered by Speck Schnuck 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think german has the toughest grammar of all, with all the cases inflections, compundwords etc.
next should be the romance languages, wich are on a par among themselves, because of the verb system.
2007-02-20 06:33:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For a programmer, studying a clean programming language is a lot, lots extra basic than studying a clean spoken language. whether, studying a programming language might properly be confusing devoid of being smart at programming already.
2016-09-29 09:06:51 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know about pougese grammar ...but i think from the rest i'd say french is the hardest
2007-02-20 04:32:46 · answer #8 · answered by me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say French, three accents is too much to deal with :P
2007-02-20 01:58:26 · answer #9 · answered by Angela Vicario 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Russian.
Edit: Someone below will write "Japanese" or "Chinese." However, grammatically speaking, these are very simple languages.
2007-02-20 01:55:44 · answer #10 · answered by angrysandwichguy_2007 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋