Linear A. an ancient Minoan language and writing system that has as of yet to be deciphered. i'd say this ones difficult if not impossible to learn since it hasn't even been deciphered yet lol. The Eruption of a volcano brought about the Minoan civilizations demise and so with it this language and writing system. Maybe someday another excavation may help but for the time being it will just continue to elude people.
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Depends on where you're coming from- what do you already know? Languages don't emerge in a vacuum, and going from English to German is going to be MUCH easier than English to, say, Cherokee.
There ARE levels of raw complexity, though; on that basis, Vietnamese and Icelandic are the trickiest ones I have any familiarity with. People will tell you that Navajo is a nightmare, but I haven't found it that bad.
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i would say that highly depends on your native language. it would be easier to learn a language that comes from the same linguistic root than learning a language from a completely different root.
for example for an English speaking person, it would be way easier to learn german, french or Spanish than mandarin or arabic. cause they come from entirely different linguistic roots so there's less concepts you can use from your own language to understand these languages. of course same difficulty, if people from these language roots trying to learn English.
Probably Japanese and Chinese and East Asian languages.
Arabic, Urdu Persian are easier. Then in Roman script, I think Polish and Czech are difficult.
Russian and Ukrainian seem pretty easy even though I always dreaded Cyrillic alphabets but they are not that difficult. One does have to learn vocabulary a lot though
Great question! I think it depends on your point of reference. E. g. native language. Mine is English, so probably the Asian languages like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, etc.
If you're an English speaker it's worth looking at the American Foreign Service Institutes ranking of language difficulty. It groups them according to how long they take to learn based on intense study.
All the funky set like, chinese, japanese korean, mandarin..
English growing up as an American I learned English, but hearing the frustration from others learning English. like there is more than one way to say things makes people go crazy
chinese or russian or arabic. having to learn a new alphabet would kick my butt
English.
from reading other's posts many simply do not grasp it at all.That's tough to say. Maybe Chinese, because you have to know at least 10,000 ideograms to read a newspaper at a basic level
For a native English speaker probably Arabic or some Asian language
Everything in Asia
Arabic and Hebrew
Ancient Greek
AramaicThe language to understand what's going on inside a women's head 😂😂😅
Any dead language thats very different from any existing language to the point of being nearly impossible to decipher.
English I’ve heard. Topped only by Vietnamese because they have a tonal communication. As in saying the same syllable in a different tone changes the message completely.
Japanese, Sanskrit, Korean, Russian
Mandarin!.. By far
Mandarin, hokkien, arabic, farsi
Maybe Chinese or Japanese
I’m going to say Navajo.
Chinese I think soo
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