what do you think is the hardest language to learn?

Question

i think welsh. :D or japanese

Answer 1

Borg....

Answer 2

I think Japanese has the hardest writing system of any language alive. Otherwise of the ones mentioned Navajo is the only serious contender. In general many Native American languages are immensely difficult, because of grammatical and semantic complexity. Some languages of E and SE Asia like Cantonese, Lahu, Lisu etc. have a lot of tones and are just generally hard to pronounce. Some languages of the Caucasus have a lot of cases, true, but others have more consonants than any languages elsewhere (Adyge, Circassian, etc.). Eskimo languages have very difficult and complex words, and Sanskrit has unbelievably complex ones. Old Irish, Greek, and Sanskrit also have immensely complex verb forms, and Sanskrit very difficult rules for sandhi (like French liaison). But the Navajo or Ojibwa verbs in N. America are even harder. Some other N. American languages famous for being difficult would be Haida and Nootka.

Answer 3

logically, the hardest language to learn should be the most influenced by other languages. So, I think it' s Brazilian Portuguese. We are multi-ethnical people and our language (Portuguese) has developped because of the tupi-guarani and pitiguara's people who live here since ancient times; african people came with the portugueses to work as their bond-servant. There are also many people from Japan, Italy, Germany (spanish as well, here in the south, because of the argentine influence) since 1890.
Each of them brought their own languages (grammatical rules and vocabulary). Other than external influence, there are many modern slangs that people use very often when talking to someone (as you know, it's not registered in the grammar).

So it can be said of Brazil that our language has influences of the whole world. Do you still have any doubt? consult our full grammar book. I don't know exactly how many pages does it have, but it's very long.




PS: the hardest thing you can learn in Japanese is their alphabet, but it's not too difficult (they don't have "letters", only "syllables". i.e: you would use 5 "letters" to write [arigatou] - [a] + [ri] + [ga] + [to] + [u]). Although, there are 2 different alphabets - hiragana (most used) and katakana (foreign words). There are also kanji's (full words in one "letter") but it' s not too important to learn.
They have some grammar rules (less than English) and the pronunciation is very easy (Spanish has more phonics, I think)

So, Japanese isn't difficult. I can't say the same of welsh because I haven't tried it, but I'm sure that indo-european languages are not so complicated.

Answer 4

Japanese

Answer 5

I don't think there really is an answer to this question. First of all, this is a matter of opinion, and second, I doubt anyone has tried to learn every language therefore, no one can say language A is harder than language B. also, since there are different language families, Spanish would come easier to an Italian speaker than a Chinese speaker, and German would come easier to an English speaker than a French speaker.

Answer 6

Welsh and Japanese are difficult languages to learn.
But, I'd say, it's Chinese either mandarin or cantonese.
So much about intonation and nuances!

Answer 7

I would think Mandarin Chinese. It is a tonal language, meaning that any word could potentially have five meanings depending on its tone. Of course it uses characters for its writing so there is not an alphabet as we know it. This makes it even harder to learn.
Another one that would be very hard is Khoisan. Nama/Hottentot people speak this language that is unrelated to any other African language. The Khoisan language that is spoken, is often referred to as a “click language” because many of the words are expressed with unusual clicking sounds. This language is shared with the Bushmen.

Answer 8

Its Chinese

http://www.language-learning-advisor.com/hardest-language-to-learn-survey.html


The vocabulary of this language is something like never ending + its the hardest to write too

Answer 9

english is the hardest language to learn
japanese is the second hardest

Answer 10

English!

Answer 11

I would think a dead language that no one speaks anymore would be the hardest to learn as you would have no way of knowing if you were getting the pronunciation correct.