Is italian the hardest language to learn?

Answer 1

I think it depends on your original language. Italian would be easiest for a French of Spanish speaker, harder for an English or German speaker, and hardest for someone from another language group.

English is less phonetic than many European languages, and had many irregularities; German is phonetic but has a lot of grammatical irregularities. I don't know about Italian, tho I suspect it has some,

Answer 2

No, because:

1) something as "the hardest language to learn in the world" just doesn't exist. The easiest language in the world for anyone is own native language. The second easiest is the most similar language to own native language.
And the hardest one is a language very different from own native language.

2) Italian is somewhat easy for people speaking other romance languages as French and, especially, Spanish.
Even an English native speaker can understand a little a written Italian text (English is a Germanic language, but many word are French derivatives).

Some words about other false myth:
- English is not hard to learn; it is hard to master. English has a simple grammar (almost no morphology): difficulties come from idioms and exceptions. Most not-native English speakers tend to compose phrases as a native speaker never would do.
- reading and rightly pronounce a foreign language is only one factor in assessing the difficulty: grammar also exists.
It makes no sense to say "Italian is easy because it is easy to spell"

For an Italian or an English speaker, I think, a not Indoeuropean language is harder, especially if a different writing system is used.

Answer 3

Learning a new language is always hard, but no, I wouldn't say Italian is the hardest to learn.

It's a Romance language, meaning it's related to Spanish and French, which means it'll be easy for you pick up words that also exist in English.

Plus, it uses Roman letters (i.e. ABC's) so you won't have to learn a whole new writing system.

If you're looking for a hard language to learn, try these:

1. Chinese
2. Hindi
3. Arabic
4. Any other language that doesn't use ABC or has grammar that is totally different from English.

Answer 4

I don't know where people get the idea that Italian is easy to learn. I'd personally love to hear them speak it, since I've heard lots of English people pronounce it in a way that would make any Italian cry of desperation. Obviously, the more different a language is from yours, the more difficult.
But even most Italians can't manage their language properly, so be careful before stating you actually speak it.

Answer 5

Having spent about 15 months trying to learn Japanese, I can safely say that no, Italian is not the hardest langauge to learn. Right now I'd LOVE it if Japanese had anything in common with English (like so many romance languages do).

Answer 6

I need to set a myth straight. Universally, English is among the easiest languages to learn to speak. We have very little in the way of inflection or declension, and though our 11 vowels can get cumbersome, we're slightly below average in our consonant inventories.

English is among the most difficult languages to SPELL correctly, but not to speak. There's a reason it has become a worldwide lingua franca, and it's not just because of the economic strength of the U.S. and Great Britain. China and the former Soviet Union have rivaled and sometimes surpassed the US/UK power in the world in the last 100 years, but noticably few people picked up their languages. English is pretty easy to learn.

Now, to the question at hand. Italian is actually among the easiest languages to learn for an English speaker. It has a less complicated system than the other romance languages, and is probably second only to Dutch in the ease an English speaker could pick it up.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

What do you say? english is hardest than italian? absoluty not! i don't think italian language is the hardest language in the word...but i'm sure it's difficult because it has a lot of grammatical rules more than english expecially about the verbs! in english language the verbs are always the same! in italian not! i'm italian and i can say that is very easy to learn english language (for me stranger)! this language has not many rules as such as italian language! now... the question is spontaneous....do you really know italian language?..... reading what you have written....i think no!

Answer 9

English is the hardest language to learn

Answer 10

Studies say English is the hardest language to learn. We have 3 ways and 3 reasonings behind a word that sounds the same i.e, to/too/two, their/there/they're. Also, the amount of slang we have in our vocabulary makes it an incredibly hard language to learn.