I heard it was polish.
2007-11-09 08:09:43 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Hello,
Apparently the Basque language in parts of Spain is stated by liguists as one of the most difficult to learn. It is very old, perhaps more than 10,000 years old.
When occupying Spain it is said Napoleon used to punish officers who screwed up on him by making them study Basque... far worse a punishment than the firing squad or Madame Guillotine they figured.
It is a unique, isolated language unrelated to the Indo- European languages.
Cheers,
Michael Kelly
2007-11-09 08:28:32 · answer #1 · answered by Michael Kelly 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
English
2007-11-09 16:13:08 · answer #2 · answered by jessicashea85 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
After some of the Asian languages and Arabic, Hungarian is one of the top 10 hardest to learn.
It seems to pick up some languages you almost have to be born into the culture.
2007-11-09 16:36:54 · answer #3 · answered by Marilyn T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English is not exactly easy to learn, but it's not nearly as hard to learn as some others.
Russian is very difficult to learn, as are some of the Asian languages. Also, I have heard that some of the native american languages are very difficult to learn as well, though they are not in use.
Also, keep in mind that the difficulty in learning a language has a lot to do with WHO is learning the languages. Some languages are in "families" so to speak, and are very similar. So, for someone whose native language is similar to Russian, they might find it relatively easy to learn to speak Russian; but they might find it hard to learn to speak a language like Spanish (which is an easy language for English and French speakers to learn because those languages are similar to Spanish).
2007-11-09 16:17:44 · answer #4 · answered by G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on where you are from.
If you grew up learning a romance language descended from latin, (using alphabet abcdefg etc..) Then Russian, Chinese or Arabic will be very difficult, because it is totally independent from romance languages.
If you know a language like Russian, Chinese, or Arabic, Any latin descended language will be very difficult because it will be a whole new alphabet to learn, and it is a totally independent language.
2007-11-09 16:24:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That depends on you: Do you speak another language? Is it hard for "you" to learn other languages? It all depends on your attention span, memory, and how well you comprehend what you've just learned. Knowing other languages might or might not help depending on whether your target language is related to another: If you've learned another that is related to the target language, it might help somewhat.
2007-11-12 19:37:55 · answer #6 · answered by bryan_q 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really just depends on the person and their skills! English is difficult, never heard much about Polish though.
XOXO,
Laurie
2007-11-09 16:15:03 · answer #7 · answered by Laurie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard that it is English.
We have a lot of the same words that are spelled differently and mean different things (there, they're, their) and words that are spelt the same but pronounced differently (read and read)... Plus, I belive English has more words than any other language there is... something like over 500,000
2007-11-09 16:18:03 · answer #8 · answered by broke_and_famous 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've heard it is English, but since I speak English, it seems like Vietnamese would be the hardest.
2007-11-09 16:17:56 · answer #9 · answered by maxmom 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For anyone using the alphabet A, B, C, it will be one of those languages that uses other symbols like mandarin.
2007-11-09 16:26:23 · answer #10 · answered by Darth Eugene Vader 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋