Hardest language to learn? (217)

1 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2006-04-03 16:30 ID:yuiNFSb2

I know this is subjective since a person that knows English would be able to learn Spanish more quickly than say, Chinese. But in light of that please discuss which language you think is the hardest to learn.

201 Name: madie : 2010-05-19 03:13 ID:53ZezmLy

in my experience with learning langauges and being a fluent english speaker I would have to say Hungarian and possibly Friasan are the hardest langauges for fluent english speakers.

202 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2010-05-23 04:15 ID:w5tosch6

I would say, for english-native speakers, that the hardest language is ranked as the following, with 1 the most difficult:

  1. Basque
  2. Hungarian
  3. Mandarin

203 Name: TIM : 2010-06-10 05:30 ID:TAvdyH/J

1队大败2队
1队大胜2队
what's mean?

204 Name: Carl : 2010-07-04 13:39 ID:+YvYmW3d

Lithuanian.

205 Name: Lithuanian : 2010-07-24 12:43 ID:8jXdAdpi

english the hardest language... ? NO WAY. i dont agree ! have you ever tried to learn lithuanian ?! no ? so try. i bet it's more difficult than chinese or japanese . lithuanian- the hardest language .

206 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2010-07-31 19:49 ID:jDdUo1UC

>>205
Fuckin' hell yea man! Lituanica!

207 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2010-08-09 23:50 ID:eW8N/nIa

lithuanian is rediculous.

208 Name: Scatterbrain : 2010-08-23 04:16 ID:XGpHJiVT

Spanish is difficult in the conjugation of verbs, Japanese has two main complications (writing and grammar), Chinese has a very complex phonetics system.

Well, that's all I think.

209 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2010-08-25 16:11 ID:XtYZApEM

the hardest is Russian, maybe.

210 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2010-12-29 12:43 ID:1Oy4yY1e

Why isn't Irish?

211 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2011-09-08 07:06 ID:HV23r6qu

I find greek really really hard. I mean ancient greek.

212 Name: Anonymous Bilingual : 2011-11-29 22:31 ID:pHv/Mfpl

I'm not sure if anyone has said this already, but I've been told Thai is a difficult language because its tonal. So the pitch that you use to say something could easily change its meaning
I don't think I could live with that.

Korean grammar is complicated at times but the writing system is very simple,compared to Japanese and Chinese characters. I was able to memorize it in 3 days. But I guess it would depend on understanding of it.For example, one would have to understand that when the characters for 's' and 'i' are next to each other they are pronounced with a 'sh' sound.

Also, as an English speaker, Chinese pronunciation would be something very hard to perfect, in my opinion. The positioning of your tongue can have a lot of effect on how you sound.

But I would think that your native language would affect your ability to grasp certain languages..

213 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2011-12-04 18:33 ID:z2y/NifG

Хтось говорить українською?

214 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2012-06-17 15:36 ID:O7dMY7Fn

215 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2012-06-18 21:14 ID:9qk6JhbM

Try Aymara and its trivalent logic system on for size.

216 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2012-08-23 20:32 ID:Y6/69v/c

Polish and other slavic langs are hard. and czech sounds for polish people like using diminutive forms of polish words lol.

217 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2012-08-25 08:53 ID:ZEezznYK

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