which is the most difficult language to learn ?
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I would say the most difficult language to learn would be any asian one. This is because they use a completely different system of letters. I think the hardest of them is Arabic, because you have to read it from right to left instead of how we read it left to right. I hope that helped!
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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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Whoa!!!\nSome incredible answers...\n\nJapanese is definitely the easiest language you can learn to speak. Writing comes from Chinese, so if they are saying it's hard just because of the characters, then Chinese has at 50 times more characters.\n\nChinese/Mandarin is not correct. Mandarin is Chinese. There are many dialects of Chinese, but characters are the same when written, no matter what dialect. Sounds may take a while to learn, but grammatically Mandarin is easy, compared to some other languages.\n\nRussian is very hard. They have an alphabet, but it is different than Latin alphabet. Grammatically, there are many things that are hard to learn. It is the hardest language I can speak (I can speak 4 fluently and learning 3 more), but not the hardest language to learn in the world.\n\nTurkish, rather easy, has a Latin alphabet, with few letters missing such as x, q and w, and has few extra letters. There are no dipthongs in Turkish, unless . There are also no gender, so he/she/it are all the same word, and no irregular nouns or verbs, which makes Turkish very, very easy.\n\nEnglish, in my opinion, is the easiest of the European languages. Unlike Romantic languages, it only has one definite article, and 2 undefinite articles. Some other features of English also make it easy.\n\nSome people agree that Hungarian is the hardest language, but I don't have any experience speaking it so I cannot say.\n\nMalayalam, which is spoken in Southern India, might be hard to learn. They have an alphabet, but it is very confusing, especially to a beginner. The language is aggluginative, which means you can add multiple suffixes to a word and make it much longer. Sounds are hard to make, because they are rolled out of your tongue, similar to other Indian languages.
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o boy good luck its one of the hardest languages in the world, i guess its because it has 4 sound for each character and you have to remember every character by memory unlike english where u can try to spell a word you never saw before. i went to school in china untill i was 9 and i remember we would write 100-1000 pages of character every day for homework
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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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I depends on what your native language.   The structure of Chinese is very different compared to english.   There are even several Chinese dialects that are very different from each other.   I hear the hardest is supposed to be Mandarin Chinese.
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english is the most complicated language because of all the rules so i think it would be hard to learn it online.
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Judging by most of the questions and answers on this site, the easiest second language would have to be English.  I don't quite know what their first one was.
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Could be very easy ; if you do that :\n1- learn it as quickly as possibe ( I mean age ) .\n2- Go learn it in the country of the language . ( lonely ) .\n3- read newspaper ; daily .\n4- watch Tv .\n5- talk with people ; all times ( No shame ) .\nBut you must know that a language depend on 2 things :\n1-Skill 2-love .
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Most of the foreign language students who come to my parents' language centre say that English is in fact one of the EASIEST languages they have ever learnt (and many have studied several languages in the course of their study). This is because English has significantly fewer *rules* to learn than other languages (Danish for example follows grammatical rules almost completely unswervingly). The students speak according to what they have heard said before, and learn through doing rather than learning long and complex tables of grammar.\n\nAtop that, English is based almost entirely on words that have come from other cultures. It has very few words that are entirely unique (if any). Words like 'frost,' 'candle,'\n'stand' (and I'm just choosing words more or less at random here) can be linked to common words in other languages - 'frorst' in Icelandic, 'candelabra' from Latin, 'stand' from 'standen' in German. Even the word for 'man' can be linked to Eastern Sanskrit.\n\nI would argue that the Eastern languages are the hardest for a westerner to learn, as they are so completely different from the languages to which we are accustomed. The script is different, the grammar is *completely* different and there are hardly any cognates (words that are similar to English words, such as the French words 'cinema' and 'hotel').\n\nSo I'd go with Korean, or Chinese. Both are very difficult for Westerners to get to grips with (very few ever become fluent), and even the most proficient students struggle with pronunciation.
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You don't "select" an international language. This should be a language of the most intellectually and technically advanced nation. In the previous millennium the fitst international language was French, before WWII it seems we had two international languages - German and English, now we have English. It became "lingua franca" because after WWII the US became the most economically and technically advanced nation. That is why, whether you like it or not, you've got to learn English.Then, of course, a language which is supposed to be international has to have a rich litterary and cultural tradition.\nAll the aforementioned is not the case of artificial languages like esperanto, that is why they are not widespread.\nBy the way,  English  is not a very easy language, but I wouldn't say it is that difficult.\nFrench is much more difficult.\nConjugation of Spanish verbs is very difficult, and business Spanish is not easy either.\nRusian is an extremely difficult language.\nAnd Hebrew, in spite of the fact that it is, in a way, an "artificial" and "mathematical" language (I mean modern Hebrew), is a very difficult language too.\nWhich means, again, that there are no "easy" languages. You've just got to learn a foreign language. And it takes time and a lot of perseverance, beleive me. The earlier you start - the better.
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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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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.
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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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In my opinion, Spanish.\nEnglish is the worse, by far.
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English is not easy.  It is one of the hardest languages in the world to speak, read and write.  American English is even worse than Brittish English.
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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!"