What is the hardest language to learn?
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In my opinion chinese. They have a large syllabary. That's just too much to memorize when you have other things to memorize. I gave up on it.\n\nto nwnguyx: what? Dutch is easy. That was my second language.\n\nDutch: hoe laat is het?\nEnglish: What time is it?\n\nThat's pretty close if you ask me.
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The hardest languages to learn would be ones outside the Indo-European family of languages. This would include all East Asian languages, languages of the natives of Oceania, and many African languages. The hardest modern Indo-European language would probably be any of the Indo-Iranian languages, as they have had little influence on modern Romance languages, unlike the Italic, Germanic, and Greek languages. The easiest to learn would be any of the Romance languages, as they have many similar forms and cognates. Portuguese is the most like Spanish, and would thus likely be the easiest for a Spanish speaker to learn.
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Japanese.  I know from personal experience.  English-speakers usually think that learning a language closely related to their own is easier, but in fact it is more difficult and confusing.  After two years of college-level Japanese, I am 10 times as fluent in it as the 2nd-year Spanish students are in Spanish.  The other thing about Japanese is that the spelling is phonetic--meaning, words are spelled *exactly* like they sound.  Much easier.\n\nPlus, if you learn Japanese, you can watch anime without subtitles ^^
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It's going to depend on which languages you want to learn.  If the languages you want to learn are European in origin, I have a suggestion.  \n\nWhen I was in High School, I wanted to take a foreign language course, and I had to choose between Spanish and French. I chose Spanish, but for various reasons, I failed it. For the next 24 years I was under the impression that I couldn't learn a second language.\n\nThen when my daughter was taking Spanish in High School, I found that I still remembered quite a bit of it, and began to rethink my impression about my linguistic ability.\n\nOne day I read that Esperanto was the easiest language on earth to learn. I began learning it as an experiment to see if I really could learn a foreign language. Now I'm fluent at it, and have gone on to learn Spanish (I finished the 3 Pimsleur's Spanish courses in 1 year), and moved on to German. Later I learned a little Polish (to take a business trip to Poland) and studied Mandarin Chinese (just because a friend told me about the free course work on chinesepod.com).\n\nKnowing Esperanto first, helped greatly in my other linguistic experiences, but the thing that surprised me the most was that there is a culture around Esperanto that is alive and vibrant, with Music and Literature (both translated and original). Esperanto is my favorite of all the languages, and the easiest to learn of all my language experiences.\n\nPope John Paul II has called Esperanto the "New Latin".  \n\nThis article on Wikipedia is a very interesting article about the benefits of learning Esperanto before other languages.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperanto
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Everything! :-)\n\nThe vocabulary is pretty difficult.  There is so much of it and sometimes what you say in English isn't exactly the same as it is in another language. \n\nPronunciation is also difficult because there are sounds that are difficult to produce or even to detect!\n\nAnd grammar is a whole new ball game. The language you learn may follow a different word order, have new tenses, and treat adjectives like verbs (like Japanese!).
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English is regarded as the most difficult, due to its huge number of words (up to 200,000), complexity of grammar (derived from both Latin and Germanic) and haphazard rules.\n\nBy comparisom, Japanese is NOT difficult. It looks complicated because it is written differently from English, and yes, there are about 4,000 characters to learn in everyday use. But it's not that hard to learn spoken Japanese. The grammar is simple and the rules are very consistent.\n\nKind regards.
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spanish(you can understand alot of languages like:french,portuguese,italian etc...)then english and chinese.
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Esperanto  (I speak English, Esperanto, Spanish, and German.  I've also studied Polish and Mandarin) Esperanto was far easier to learn than any of the others, and it opened the world to me. I've had conversations with people from every continent, and every country, and I only had to learn the easiest language on earth to do so.\n\nYou might ask, why is Esperanto easier to learn than any of the other languages? It's because it is a language designed to be simple to learn. Most of the time spent studying a foreign language is spent learning the irregularities and rule exceptions ("I before E except after C", " 'sheep' is both singular and plural", etc). Esperanto has only 16 gramatical rules, and no exceptions to any of the rules.\n\nAnd before you ask, yes you can travel with Esperanto. Read this article in Wikipedia about the Esperanto "Pasporta Servo" (Pasport Service)\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasporta_Servo\n\n\nI don't have a least favorie, so far I haven't found a language I didn't want to learn.
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French is a lot easier. Take it from a singer. I've had to learn Italian and German. Those where the two hardest for me. Chinese from what I've heard from people is a little tougher. Choose what u think is comfy for u.
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English is an almost universal "trade" language.\n\nThe Navajo language is THE most difficult.  It's been said, "If you don't grow up learning and speaking Navajo...fergit it, you'll never learn it!"
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It depends on your ability to learn a language. For everyone saying spanish and french are so close to english actually german is closer as english is a germanic language NOT a romance language ( look it up, oh and i speak 6 languages and have a masters in linguistics so my answer is sound). Just because German would be the closest to english does not mean it is therefore the easiest as the grammar might be offputting to many people. In fact i found russian easier. So it really depends on you personally. A few things might contribute to the ease of a particular language such as, your exposure to it and your ability to retain large amounts of information and apply them. My suggestion is whatever the language you would like to learn just immerse yourself in it: Books, movies, videos etc. Now linguistically some languages are suppose to be easier to learn than others, for example spanish and french are considered categoy 1, german either a 2 or 3, russian a 4 and chinese, hungarian, finish and arabic 5.... but i found french harder than russian..so it really is up to you.
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Spanish is by far the easiest. Many of their words are similar forms to English words. For example: "No problemo"= no problem or Hola= Hello.  Very easy to pick up even when you haven't studied the language yet.
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easiest = english\nhardest = latin
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make no mistake about it English is the single hardest language in the world to learn.  \n\nbut adjectives and adverbs aren't the difficult part.  by far the most difficult part is the fact that there are exceptions to every rule.\n\nadjectives and adverbs are easy   here's the quick and easy version\n\nlets say you buy a car.    any word that describes that car is an adjective.  blue car, fast car, big car, small car \n\nadjectives describe things.\n\nadverbs describe verbs its right there adVERB.\n\nlets say    he ran.  the noun is he the verb is ran\n\nadverbs describe verbs  so   ran slowly, ran quickly, ran awkwardly.  the words that describe how he did the action (verb)\n\nkeep at it more and more people around the world are starting to learn english as a second language so doubtless it will become very usefull in the future.
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Spanish is not difficult to learn. Neither was French. Italian is much like Spanish. They are all derived from Latin, but French seems to have drifted the furthest.
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I've been learning Japanese for two years now and have a Jpanaese girlfriend and I still can't string a sentence together.  It's hard but not impossible, but unless your really good at learning languages I'd go for Spanish, which is a beautiful language anyway.
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English is widely reputed to be the most difficult language in the world to learn.  Yes, lots of people speak it, but the best speakers are those who come from countries where the schools teach English from the first grade or earlier, and they typically study for eight years or more.