from the most difficult to the least difficult. If possible, give me all the countries
2007-04-04 05:55:42 · 12 answers · asked by MissUkraine2005Lover 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
what I mean is a list from 1 to whatever it ends...
2007-04-04 06:02:33 · update #1
According to Barry Farber, founder of the Language Club, Finnish is the most difficult European language.
Now, I don't know about an ordered list of languages from difficult to easy, but it will definitely be easier to learn languages from the same group (e.g. Romance, Slavik) if you already know one from that group. For the most part, languages in the same group will have similar grammatical structure, vocabulary, or both. Not always, like in the case of Finnish and Hungarian, both of which are part of the Finno-Ugric family.
Here are some families and some languages within:
Romance: French, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese.
Germanic: Dutch, German, English, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish.
Slavik: Russian, Czech, Polish, Ukranian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian.
Celtic: Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Breton, Cornish.
Baltic: Latvian, Lithuanian, Galindian.
Finno-Ugric: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian
So, if you know a language from one of those families, you would have a head-start in learning other languages of that family. Since you speak English, you might want to try German or Dutch since they are somewhat related.
Another factor is how widely the language is spoken. English, Portuguese, Russian, French, German, and Spanish are more widely spoken than, say, Hungarian.
2007-04-04 06:18:45 · answer #1 · answered by Ben 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'm having trouble with Swiss-German, myself.
I imagine (for an English speaker), though, that Hungarian, Finnish, and Basque would be harder, then the Celtic languages, (Welsh, Irish), Russian and other Slavic languages, Albanian, Greek, then the Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian), then the Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian), then the normal German, Dutch.
But that's just in (rough) terms of linguistic "distance" from English. Other factors in difficulty are resources available--so Spanish and French being more often taught and easier to come by than Danish may be overall easier to learn than Danish.
2007-04-04 06:15:55 · answer #2 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bukharian, Armenian, Icelandic, Uzbekistani/Tajikistani native dialects, Serbian Arabic, Albanian
2007-04-04 06:55:58 · answer #3 · answered by jro660 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about a list, but Hungarian is very difficult. It really has Asian roots, rather than the regular European ones, so there's a whole different sound to it.
2007-04-04 06:03:45 · answer #4 · answered by thezaylady 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Georgian is probably the most difficult, and to compound the difficulty, is only spoken by a small group of people.
2007-04-04 05:59:07 · answer #5 · answered by Uncle John 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the most difficult in Europe is Russian
the least difficult is English
2007-04-04 05:58:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
1 Basque
2 Hungarian
3 ?
2007-04-04 07:27:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm just guessing, but I agree Russian is pretty tough. Finnish and Hungarian can't be too easy (they are not IE languages). And Welsh pronunciation seems pretty tough.
2007-04-04 06:00:08 · answer #8 · answered by doubt_is_freedom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My answer is the same as Ben
I was born in Europe and I speak more than one language
2007-04-04 08:02:13 · answer #9 · answered by argus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
**Russian .
Trukese ...kose mochen kopwe alleaani Ei poraus
Crotian ..
in one word most of them are hard .
2007-04-04 06:02:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋