People say that chinese is the toughest language in the world, do you agree and why?

Question

I can speak Chinese myself, and other dialects..

Answer 1

English is the hardest of all languages, i speak 7 languages and to learn English is very difficult, it's all the where, were, and wear, and the which & witch and the here & hear and there & the're, thier.
this rubbish about I before E except after C or in words like neighbour and weigh doesn't work either to help remember.

believe it or not it is quite difficult to learn if you weren't raised with it

Answer 2

There are many dialects of Chinese. Mandarin is the official one in both the People's Republic and the Republic of China. Cantonese is the one spoken in Hong Kong and in Chinatowns around the world. I know a girl from Shanghai. That city has its own dialect that Mandarin and Cantonese speakers cannot understand. Two of my pals speak different versions of Cantonese: Saam Yup and Sei Yup. The grammar is not so difficult, buit there are articles to learn for each noun in Cantonese. Another problem is the tones. Mandarin uses 4, and modern Cantonese uses 7. An old textbook I found at a yard sale has 8. I play pranks by changing tones. some Cantonese call San Francisco Saam Faan Si = 3 Foreigners Market. I may change the tone of Si and it becomes 3 Foreigners' Crap. Then, there is the traditional writing with a symbol for each word. A Chinese child must have an advanced education to read papers and magazines. I read some English at age 2. If I was Chinese, I'd be delayed until age 9 or so in doing the same reading.

Answer 3

You will hv to say the sound right, otherwise it gives a different meaning. I hv this problem all the time cos i dont speak Mandarin daily and I was not Chinese educated so when i start speaking i always get the sounds wrong. After some practice it will be alright. It doesnt have all the different tenses, singular or plural etc... like English.

I wld say it is pretty easier to learn Chinese than English.

Answer 4

Chinese may be hard to learn for a beginner because it is a totally different language from English. Almost all the words are original from the images.and it has less characters to remember compared to English words. You can remember lots words by the images. You can read newspapers if you can know 3000 characters but you need 8000 to 10,000 word to read English. English has tough grammar e. g. plurals and Verb changes what Chinese has not. More and more English speakers can speak Chinese fluently in recently years.

Answer 5

How can the "toughness" of a language be measured? In absolute terms? Or even in relative terms? An adult English speaker who has never had exposure to any foreign language might find it more "difficult" to learn German (setting aside for the moment the problem of how to measure degrees of difficulty) than a Japanese child who has travelled extensively in China may find it to learn Mandarin. There's no way to give the question any kind of meaningful answer.

Answer 6

yes, partially. My reasons are because for the written language you have to memorize thousands of symbols. For the spoken language its all in how you say it. Each word spoken a slightly different way makes it a different word or meaning. In english we say, boat. No matter how we say it, it means boat haha. but the word "Mau" for example, can mean a few different things depending on how its spoken (raising the voice up at the end, in the middle in the beginning, etc.) thats hard haha

Answer 7

sure, german is cool . Ist nun halt mal so. It has every day expressions for matters that cannot be without difficulty mentioned in english... Ideally, you will have to begin studying each to peer which one fits you first-rate. If that is now not an choice, take the only you'll use/train with peers, loved ones or neighbours

Answer 8

funny thing is, foreigners who go to chinese-speaking countries speak fairly well after a year of immersion studies, but foreigners who to english-speaking countries speak very badly still after a year of immersion studies.

i therefore conclude that english is harder to learn

the only difficult part in learning chinese is the written symbols

Answer 9

Yes, because it's all about the tones. If you pronounce a word correctly yet articulate the tone incorrectly, whatever you were trying to say would be interpreted as something completely different.

Answer 10

Chinese is not a language, there are 5 separate dialect/languages that share a common symbol set. I've heard that Gaelic or Celtic is much harder.