Ive heard from many that english is hard due to all the various nuances.
I personally have studied a bit of latin, german, and a very little amount of
japanese, and speak viet n english fluently, so can't say if english is hard
since i grew up with it. I believe languages like japanese and chinese might be
hard just due to the use of different symbols for writing (for someone new to
it).
I would say the languages that seem hardest to me are Czech, Chinese, and
Swahili. Chinese has crazy intonation subtleties, and the other two have lots of
phonemes that don't exist in English at all.
I think, that the most difficult language to learn is that one, with you don`t
want to learn.
I`m really good in english, I know little of japanese, also I tried, and it went
good, with spanish and French. But I don`t like German and I can`t and won`t
learn it
Chinese is definitely hard to learn. However the hardest one is up to one's
ability. Some of my friends have real trouble learning English, but I find it
easy.
BTW, has anyone who is NOT native Vietnamese tried to speak Vietnamese fluently?
I think that's one complex language
English is my first language ang I would have to say English is the hardest to
learn. I've started to learn Japanese and German. Now English just doesn't make
any sense to me.
It's probably not the most difficult, but I find portuguese language to be much
more difficult to learn then english, even thought it's my native language. I
personally find english to be a fairly easy language to learn.
Chinese isn't the only language with tonal subtleties, and there's only 5 of
those anyway...
Thai also has the inflections.... or maybe it's because I was born into these
languages that I get it... (I don't speak Thai, but my mom does.
I say the hardest language is the one that's most different from your own.
you didnt talke about the arabic and epric languges i thnk they are the harder i
know about english and japanese but they arnt that hard you kow if english was
hard it wouldnt be the first languge in the world now
Eh... I found any non-romanized or germanic based language hard. My friend, who
has mastered 7 different languages, said that Russian was one of the harder ones
for him to learn and master.
Precision : My first language is French.
think that asian languages in general are quite hard to learn, the hardest. Then
german and russian are impressive too.
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(Oh and for the persons who think french's an easy language, all the persons who
told me that, english mostly, spoke it very, VERY bad, they thought frenchmen
understood them but we barely understood 2 words... so, we can say that
everylanguage has some difficulty to be learned...)
Quote by ExorcismChinese without a
doubt. Pronunciation is the keyword in this language. If you speak with low tone
voice, or sound a different pitch you'll most likely end up saying a completely
unrelevant word you wanted. Plus, there are more than fifty thousand hundreds of
chinese characters all together.
Korean is perhaps the most difficult language I have tried to learn, if only
because of the Hangul alphabet. Like Chinese and Japanese, there are many
different characters, but the catch is that the characters are mainly based on
the sound. The way the characters are written and "stacked" depends on
what sounds make up that character and then there are so many rules as to how
they are stacked. I much prefer Chinese and Japanese if only because of this,
because it really is more of a matter of simply memorizing the characters and
their meanings.
And although everyone is different, it amazes me when my classmates tell me how
difficult German is. I personally think it's one of the easier languages I have
ever studied. And that is probably because English is indeed a Germanic
language, and thus has similar grammatical structure and shares many of the same
sounds; some words I can guess the meaning of on sound alone.
from my experience so far its spanish. i started taking it in the 6th grade and
finally finished in the 11th. 6 years of misery for me and i still cant learn
the langauge well. i was so happy to pass the final and never take spanish again
for the rest of my life.
For me, it's definitely Chinese. Especially Mandarin. I've been studying the
language since I was a kid but I still haven't gotten the hang of it yet! I'm
conversational in fookien but my mandarin is horrible. And I still can't read
words other than the basics. Add to that the 'shortcuts' in the writings that
make the words seem like an entirely different character. Waaah!
swedish,german
Ive heard from many that english is hard due to all the various nuances.
I personally have studied a bit of latin, german, and a very little amount of japanese, and speak viet n english fluently, so can't say if english is hard since i grew up with it. I believe languages like japanese and chinese might be hard just due to the use of different symbols for writing (for someone new to it).
I would say the languages that seem hardest to me are Czech, Chinese, and Swahili. Chinese has crazy intonation subtleties, and the other two have lots of phonemes that don't exist in English at all.
I think, that the most difficult language to learn is that one, with you don`t want to learn.
I`m really good in english, I know little of japanese, also I tried, and it went good, with spanish and French. But I don`t like German and I can`t and won`t learn it
Chinese is definitely hard to learn. However the hardest one is up to one's ability. Some of my friends have real trouble learning English, but I find it easy.
BTW, has anyone who is NOT native Vietnamese tried to speak Vietnamese fluently? I think that's one complex language
English is my first language ang I would have to say English is the hardest to learn. I've started to learn Japanese and German. Now English just doesn't make any sense to me.
It's probably not the most difficult, but I find portuguese language to be much more difficult to learn then english, even thought it's my native language. I personally find english to be a fairly easy language to learn.
. . . . . . . Reciting the entire Declaration of Independance in Pig Latin.
I ad say.
chinese cause its so different to english
Chinese isn't the only language with tonal subtleties, and there's only 5 of those anyway...
Thai also has the inflections.... or maybe it's because I was born into these languages that I get it... (I don't speak Thai, but my mom does.
I say the hardest language is the one that's most different from your own.
French. But I still got an "A". Haha!
you didnt talke about the arabic and epric languges i thnk they are the harder i know about english and japanese but they arnt that hard you kow if english was hard it wouldnt be the first languge in the world now
Eh... I found any non-romanized or germanic based language hard. My friend, who has mastered 7 different languages, said that Russian was one of the harder ones for him to learn and master.
Yup any non-romanized language simply put...
I'm chinese, and I still do not get the language properly hahaha
English on the other hand is really easy to get into, to be a master.. if somewhat difficult
Precision : My first language is French.
think that asian languages in general are quite hard to learn, the hardest. Then german and russian are impressive too.
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(Oh and for the persons who think french's an easy language, all the persons who told me that, english mostly, spoke it very, VERY bad, they thought frenchmen understood them but we barely understood 2 words... so, we can say that everylanguage has some difficulty to be learned...)
For me, all non-Latin based languages.
I'm so suck at learning those.
Alright, I can, but will probably spend more time than others do.
I heard that Icelandic was the most difficult language to learn.
I perosnally think English would be really hard because it is a patchwork language.
i agree with you
Korean is perhaps the most difficult language I have tried to learn, if only because of the Hangul alphabet. Like Chinese and Japanese, there are many different characters, but the catch is that the characters are mainly based on the sound. The way the characters are written and "stacked" depends on what sounds make up that character and then there are so many rules as to how they are stacked. I much prefer Chinese and Japanese if only because of this, because it really is more of a matter of simply memorizing the characters and their meanings.
And although everyone is different, it amazes me when my classmates tell me how difficult German is. I personally think it's one of the easier languages I have ever studied. And that is probably because English is indeed a Germanic language, and thus has similar grammatical structure and shares many of the same sounds; some words I can guess the meaning of on sound alone.
from my experience so far its spanish. i started taking it in the 6th grade and finally finished in the 11th. 6 years of misery for me and i still cant learn the langauge well. i was so happy to pass the final and never take spanish again for the rest of my life.
Arabic or Chinese O_o
For me, it's definitely Chinese. Especially Mandarin. I've been studying the language since I was a kid but I still haven't gotten the hang of it yet! I'm conversational in fookien but my mandarin is horrible. And I still can't read words other than the basics. Add to that the 'shortcuts' in the writings that make the words seem like an entirely different character. Waaah!
I think Chinese and Japanese are really difficult to learn. But there are more that are kind of hard to learn so it's kind of hard to choose.XD