What is the hardest language to speak?
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Sign Language, of course:)\n\nBy the way, no language is any more difficult than another for it's respective native speakers.\n\nChinese may be difficult for a native English speaker to speak, but a baby learns it as easily as it would English.
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It sounds like you are.  Good for you; it's a hard language to learn.
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Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, and Malaysian are languages that can be picked up in 6 months to 1 year, depending on the dedication.\nFrench is a little bit harder than the other Latin languages because its pronunciation takes practice.\n\nGerman, Russian, Greek and Hebrew are moderately difficult languages. You need to give yourself a year or two of dedicated study to learn.\n\nJapanese, Chinese, Finnish, and Arabic are extremely challenging languages. You need about 3 to 5 years to learn to speak those languages fluently, and living among the culture is a must.
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That's relative:\n\nLatin does not require much speaking, but involves A LOT of grammatical terms.\n\nFrench can be easily learned because the English language has acquired many french words, but does not follow an easy phonetical system.  One would have to learn how to say each word individually.\n\nSpanish and Italian have almost the easiest phonetics.  You can actually learn to speak Spanish and Italian without knowing what you're saying.  Yet, they both have a lot of rules with definite and indefinite articles that are hard for the English speaker to learn.\n\nIn the end, all are equally easy and hard because of their own reasons.  Go with the one you'd want to learn the most!  Because they'll end up having equal amount of advantages and disadvantages.
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English is the most difficult language to learn because there are so many words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings, because there is so much figurative and idiomatic language, because so many words are not pronounced or spelled phonetically, because there are so many exceptions to the rules, etc.\n\nConsider the poem at the link I've included.
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Just know that English is one of the hardest languages to learn! So if it is your second language- than you are already ahead of the race...
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If I should limit myself to only one language it would be probably Arabic, it is very challenging. And of course, to improve my Spanish.\nHave a nice time!
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Russian, according to a study that measured proficiency levels against time dedicated to learning the language. While English is difficult due to the number of words, pronunciation problems and specified vocabulary, the complex structure of Russian and Cyrillic alphabet make it a bit more difficult.\n\nhttp://www.mtholyoke.edu/~eagerchm/tutorial/research.html
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Hmmm I can speak of french as I'm french. It's said to be a quite hard language and it really is, lots of exceptions in grammar, many problems of tenses. Well it's also known as a beautiful language and maybe it comes from the fact it's difficult.\nSpanish is close to french I think complexity is quite the same or slightly easier (I've learned it for 3 years). It's a nice language that sounds good, like there's sun in their language :)\nChinese is much more simple regarding tenses and grammar (my girlfriend is chinese) but one very hard thing is they have sounds we don't, they make difference between two sounds just from the tone where we don't really hear any difference, I think it's a question of habit. Of course the writing is also harder, there's a way to write with normal letters too...\n\nRegarding usefulness I think chinese is a language that will be interesting in the few next years as China is opening more, french can be interesting too and I think french can provide a better population coverage than spanish if you choose between those two...\n\nSo good luck in your learning and I hope I provided interesting inofmrations to guide you in your choice :)
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From what I've learned in linguistics, no (spoken) language is "easier" or "harder" for children to learn. They all learn their native language at the same speed.\n\n(Written language is another matter, of course.)
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It depends how good you're at foreign languages. Although, as for the average person--I'd say it's pretty hard.
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For an English speaker, I would say Spanish is by far the easiest of the four to learn.  If you speak other languages, the answer might be different.\n\nLatin is particularly hard because of the declension of nouns.  French pronunciation is sometimes difficult (especially the nasal vowels).  German isn't too difficult, but the sentence word order (verb at the end or verb second) is unnatural for English-speakers (I'd put it in second place among the languages you listed).
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I grew up speaking English and I have at various times tried to learn Spanish, Italian, Latin, German, and Hebrew.  In my opinion, Spanish was the easiest and German was the hardest.
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there is no such a thing as an "easy" or a "difficult" programming language.. it all depends on how u grasp the concepts/fundamentals of the language.\n\n\n well... since u seem to be a starter .. i would recommend "c"\nits more of system-side programming.. But all that i can say is that if u know how to play with "c", no other language would be a challenge for u.\n\nget started with "c". :)
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the BEST language to learn \nis the language that you WANT to learn...\n\nuseful languages: french, spanish, german\n\ninteresting languages: chinese, hindi, arabic
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rosetta stone, I did the one italian once\n\ngood luck
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Arabic..\nEnglish...\nFrench..\nLearning Dutch