Hardest Langauge To Learn?

What do you think it is and why?

I heard it was Icelandic... >.>

Though from personal experience it has to be English. The grammar in this language is near impossible to master. :shock:

Only for someone who's not English.

Depends what language you start with, European Latin based languages are quite easy to learn from one another. I have only just started learning Japanese and I find it quite hard, generally easier to learn new languages the younger you are.

norse it don't exsist anymore

I believe Chinese (along with japanese) are among the hardest languages to learn.
For some reason I don't quite know, I decided to take a class in chinese. 4 weeks in, everyone in the class has a C- or lower. Its mainly because their writing system differs so much from most english and european languages.

Spanish grammar is harder. I don't know why but some people seriously have trouble writing in Spanish.

Asian languages are probably the hardest. Seriously, learning a new writing system makes the whole thing tougher than it's worth.

Spanish grammar is indeed hard if your used to standard english, but I should have made myself clear. I really meant the rule of spelling in english is hard, such as rules of "i" before "e" except after "c" but there are some words that ignore that rule. Pronounciations are screwed up too... etc.

Asian sentence structure isn't that bad in my opinion. I know Korean and it isn't all that hard even though English is my primary language.

English isn't hard to learn but it is extremely difficult to master. The rules and exceptions involved in the English language is far more than every language combined.

With that, I have to say Nigerian Ebo.

Asian Languages are pretty easy actually. You can become a fluid japanese speaker in half a year with some work. And learning hiragana and katakana only takes two days if you try hard enough.

Personally, I think that Latin and (American)English are the two hardest. Both of those had heavy foreign influences. If you studied latin then you would see how vulgar the language became as the Roman empire expanded. American English has the same problem because of its large number of immigrants.

And by learn I mean master.

I believe it really depends on your first language.

My first language was Japanese, and Japanese is phonetic which languages (Like Spanish) pretty simple. Spanish way of writing is also like Japanese.

English on the other hand has to do things the hard way doing everything differently including language structure.

English isn't hard to learn, its the "rules" they have in the English language that makes it hard. God knows why its the most spoken language on earth....oh wait, its because america will blow up the earth if we dont!~

Actually, it's because Britain was the world power back in the 1800s and early 1900s.

English being the most spoken language worldwide has nothing to do with the US.

Yeah, I'm just being an idiot =P


The US being the center for trade probably has the biggest to do with it. Everyone wants something from someone else. Thing is, Americans want everything more then any other country. So instead of learning the other countries language...the U.S goes to other countries and expects them to speak english. When they don't, they have difficulty.

most def it would be chinese, it have 5000+ words each of 'em have 5 different notation with each notation have different meaning as far as i know :roll:

i tried to learn it back in the days but never really get the hang of it :(

(American)English is easy to pick up but, practically impossible to master. As mentioned before I believe it is all about your first language. The "basic" groups of languages can be split into three parts English (American, British) Latin (Spanish, French,etc) Asian (Koren, Japanese, Chines,etc)

English find Latin based difficult due to the sentence structure followed by Asian being more difficult because of the much larger character base.

Asians can find English difficult because of the various "rules" and "exceptions to the rules" that English is full of.

Latin based languages are pretty much in the center. English and Asian languages are about the same difficulty for native speakers.

chinese.. altogether it has like 500,000 characters/words(not sure).. and then u can mix and match making life a whole lot more harder..
but russian to me looks pretty complicated.. the writing style is interesting..

ok well im studiying french and.. its quite hard, maybe not the hasdest but indeed its harder than spanish! i can asure you that.

definitely Japanese. one of my favourite and one of the hardest language i ever learn

I honestly think English. I speak it naturally, but I've been learning some Japanese on my freetime and I am almost fluent in German. So far I've noticed a lot of the English language is bloated text.

Japanese, in a nutshell isn't too hard, I think a lot of people are baffled by the text. I am intimidated by it, but just like anything, nothing is really difficult.

It's only difficult by how you make it. If you have the attitude, YES I want to learn this, I am interested I want to know more and I want to get more into this, you'll learn quicker. If your attitude is more lethargic like, Yeah I wanna learn but I have some stuff to do; and you keep pushing it away, you'll have difficulties. Accompanied by a great Sensei.

If you've ever tried the Rosetta Stone Demo, a key to learning a language is immersion. Getting into it, and immersing yourself not only in the language but the culture of the people.

A lot of what you learn, you don't know you learn it sense you pick it up from what you do. Like when we all watch anime, we really don't know but we'll pick something up, then use it and realize 'Oh, this means this!'

That's my opinion.

-j