What is the hardest language to learn?

Answer 1

What is the hardest language to learn?
Extremely Hard: The hardest language to learn is: Polish-Seven Cases, Seven Genders and very difficult pronunciation. Average English speaker is fluent at about the age 12; the average Polish speaker is fluent in their language not until age 16. .


Very Hard: Finnish, Hungarian, and Estonian-These languages are hard because of the countless noun cases. However, the cases are more like English prepositions added to the end of the root.Pretty Hard: Ukrainian and Russian complex grammar and different alphabet but easier pronunciation. Serbian-Also similar to other Slavic languages with a complex case and gender system, but it also has many tenses. alphabet


Fairly Hard: Chinese and Japanese-No cases, no genders very easy grammar, however, writing is hard. But to speak it is easy. Also intonations make it harder but certainly not harder than Polish pronunciation. I know a Chinese language teacher that says people pick up Chinese, but he speaks several languages and could not learn Polish.


Average: French-lots of tenses but not used and moderate grammar. German-only four cases and like five exceptions, everything is logical, of course.


Easy: Spanish and Italian


Basic to hard: English, no cases or gender, you hear it everywhere, spelling can be hard and British tenses you can use the simple and continues tense instead of the perfect tenses and you will speak American English. English at the basic level is easy but to speak it like a native it’s hard because of the dynamic idiomatic nature.

Answer 2

I am trying to learn H ungarian so right now I would have to say Hungarian.
It really is one of the top 10 hardest languages to learn.
It is a suffix language with 40 letters and front and back vowels. Very confusing.

Answer 3

It is impossible to say precisely, but many languages are enormously harder than those mentioned. Some of the SE ASian and E Asian languages have impossible systems of tones as well as other sounds, starting with Cantonese and I think getting worse with some of the non-Chinese languages of S. China and N. Indochina, like Vietnamese and some less well-known ones like Lahu and Lisu. Some African and many American Indian languages are immensely difficult as well. The American ones are especially so because their grammars can be extremely complex and also the semantics is entirely alien. Some have very difficult phonologies as well. The Eskimo languages on the one hand and Sanskrit on the other probably have the most complex words, with Aztec rather bad too in this regard. Some of the languages of the Caucasus, Ubykh (now extinct), Adyge, Circassian, Abkhaz have the most consonants in the world and are also otherwise complex (grammar). I am not sure who has the most complex vowel system: English is complex in this regard but probably not the worst. Danish is quite bad. In terms of spelling, English, Danish, and French are some famously bad ones, but probably far from worst. When we go beyond spelling to writing systems that include nonphonetic symbols, then Japanese is probably one of the worst, with Sumerian (long extinct) being similar to Japanese in this regard. I think it is clear that Hungarian, Finnish, etc. are very very far from the hardest in any sense. English is probably the hardest of the languages mentioned, because of its complex spelling and vowel system, but easy in many other respects.

Answer 4

It all depends on what languages you know. Farsi may be extermely hard to a native English speaker, but easy for an Arabic speaker. Icelandic has sometime been referred to as one of the hardest languages to learn.

Answer 5

A lot of african languages are very challenging. A language like yoruba it is so hard to say the word "tongue" or "head". Polish is one of the hardest languages. There is one language in South Africa that they make sounds with their mouth and tongue I think it is called the Khosian language. No one has really ever attemepted to learn the language because it is very challenging.

Answer 6

Hi - I Agree with Marilyn T - HUNGARIAN! I am English, but I've lived in Hungary for 2 years and STILL struggle with the grammar! The word pronunciation makes lots of sense, once you learn the letters of the alphabet - how it's spelled is how it's said. It's just the grammar is SO complicated (at least I think it is!) Also, I help students here with their English, now I really appreciate how difficult ENGLISH is for non-English speakers to learn! It's a nightmare!

Answer 7

I'd say studying Korean is rather handy as Hangeul(or Hangul) is alphabetic. But I bet you are European or American, then it might be rather problematic so that you can study Korean due to the fact of the exceptional tradition, grammar and so forth. According to the contemporary research of the US Government Accountability Office, Korean is categorised as a superhard language in conjunction with Arabic, Chinese and Japanese. BUT you understand, whilst you care to do some thing, you simply experience it! So if you are fascinated with studying Korean, you can frequently experience it and study it rapidly. And I believe Korean is an overly tasty language. One of my Vietnamese peers as soon as instructed me that she notion the Korean language had an overly lovely sound, notably whilst she heard fans speakme with every different. Of direction, it is her opinion...At any fee, in case you begin to study Korean, I wish you experience it! (BTW, I've on no account heard Korean speakme persons announcing chokilrit or teipoo rakoda or chaejoo/jahjoo. They most often say chokoret/chokollit, teipeu rekodeo/rekoduh and jaejeu once they say the ones phrases in Korean. Maybe the individual who wrote approximately this notion the identical with me however might be simply due to the fact of the exceptional methods of the romanization of the Korean language....:-))

Answer 8

Every language is hard to learn! There's no easy ones. If one has easy grammar, it got an extremely difficult spelling or pronunciation or vice versa. but the most difficult are dead languages, such as Latin and Gothic, because you can't even imagine the way they should sound.

Answer 9

I'm under the impression that Russian is a fairly difficult language to learn.

Answer 10

English.