which is the difficult language in the world? i heard that english is the easiest in the world.?

Answer 1

English is not that easy a language...
WAY too many irregular verbs, exceptions to the rules and phonetic spelling variations!

Arabic isn't that tough, you just have to master a different set of sounds.

Arabic IS tough when you see writing without the vowel markings -- then when you see (to use an English analogy) "BD" you need to figure out whether they are talking about:
bad,
bade,
baud,
bed,
bid,
bide,
bode,
booed or
bud

by reading the word in context.

Give me a nice, consistent pronunciation system like Sanskrit any day!

I would say that the most difficult languages are the ones that use conceptual symbols (such as Chinese) rather than phonetic lettering.
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Answer 2

If I had a euro for every time I have heard this question I would be retiring before I even started work. Okay, a little bit of an exaggeration but it gets the point across.

No language is by default harder or easier than another. For a Frisian speaker Dutch is easy, for a Scots speaker English is easy, for a Catalan speaker both French and Spanish are easy.

However easy or hard a language is depends on:

1) What language(s) you heard since birth and were raised through
2) How similar the language(s) you alreday know are to the language(s) you want to learn
3) How motivated you are to learn and how easy it is for you to learn languages in adult life

It is all relative.

As babies we can learn mutiple languages at once and become fluent in them. After age 8 or so our brain activity shifts and it becomes MUCH harder for us to learn a new language. So if one wants to be fluent in two or more languages very quickly and easily one needs to be a young child again.

Answer 3

This question features regularly and is impossible to answer because it depends entirely on what your own mother tongue is.

For example, Turkish is a notoriously difficult language for an Englishman or American to learn because the structure of the language is completely different to Western European langugaes; for an Azeri or Uzbeki, however, Turkish would be fairly easy to learn, since their langugaes are related.

Slavic languages - Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbo-Croat, Slovenian, Slovak, Bulgarian, and so forth, are also quite tricky for Western Europeans but easy for other Slavs.

English is generally held to be a difficult langugae to learn to express oneself well in - although its structure - grammar and syntax, etc, are quite straightforward, its use of idioms and its sound system are extremely unpredictable.

Of the Western European languages, Basque is probably one of the hardest for a non-native to learn; it is not known to be related to any other living language in the world and a local legend says that Satan went to the Basque country to learn Basque so that he could tempt the Basques - after seven years, all he had learnt were the words for "yes" and "no" and he forgot those as he stepped over the border back into Navarre - this is supposed to be the reason why modern Basques are so "virtuous" (anyone who has spent time with the Basques will appreciate the irony/humour of this...).

Answer 4

I have been waiting for someone to ask this question. Recently I heard that the difficult language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. It is said that when translating from Chinese to English doesn’t make any sense.

english mabye the easiest lanaguage to learn in the world, but do me, it is hard.

Answer 5

Actually English is the most difficult language. There are different rules for different usages and then some of our words have multiple meanings. Even those of us who were raised speaking English have had a difficult time with it.
ie Imagine seeing powdered milk, powdered eggs and then a bottle of baby powder. what a concept?

Answer 6

there are lots of difficult languages out there, but i'd say english is up there with the top five. its mainly because of our vast grammar rules, and an even more vast list of exceptions to such rules! the synonyms, the wordplay, the double meanings, the oxymoronic terms ... learning perfectly grammatical english is no cakewalk! also, unlike certain language (eg french, acc to what my french teacher told our class), there are new words constantly being introduced into english ('bootylicious' is an official english word now!). plus, there's the old english (think 'the', thou', 'ye', 'yonder' ...), the current written english, spoken english, colloquial english ... it's all enough to make your head spin!

some other extremely difficult languages are arabic, tamil and chinese!

Answer 7

Chinese, Hebrew, Aryan, Arabic I would say are the hardest languages in the world also english is not as easy as you think. what did you score in English Class. most people for english as their native language are not at the top of their game with it. there are too many different pronounciations and exception for so few letters and perfect and imperfect tences.

Answer 8

For british diplomats, the hardest language is Hungarian. Just for clarification: Chinese is NOT hard. The grammar is really easy, the pronunciation completely consistent, and the characters are not hard to learn, they just take time and a good memorization method. (Coincidently, the Chinese schooling system is basically memorization with little or no critical thinking, even in math.)

Answer 9

English is my first language and is least perplexing to me via fact I consult from English continuously. i comprehend a thank you to communicate Spanish, and it advance into basically stressful to benefit the verbs and unusual verbs, after that it advance into uncomplicated. yet i think of gaining information of between eu languages does no longer be as stressful as gaining information of a language related to a very different alphabet and pronunciations that are very unfamiliar like Russian or Asian languages. you do no longer probably comprehend a language completely till you hear interior reach audio device communicate it. Like as quickly as I discovered Spanish, I knew Spanish yet did no longer comprehend how people used it. working example, have you ever talked to a much off places individual this is acquainted with English yet says her sentences weirdly.

Answer 10

my friend, listen me! be sure that the most difficult language is chinese coz there r 3 types of language which r additional languages, symbolic languages, seperate languages. for ex additional languages: arabıc, turkısh. symbolic languages: chinese, taiwanese and seperate languages: english, french etc. in this group, the most difficult one is symbolic languages and in that the most difficult one is chinese coz chinese has more words among all symbolics and sybolic languages allready difficult coz u have to learn each act on one symbol which absolutly will change ıt mean.