What language do you think is the most difficult to learn?

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Still-alive · Accepted Answer

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.

NamerOfStars · Accepted Answer

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.

genericname85 · Answer

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.

AmeerX · Answer

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

Alltheflowers84 · Answer

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.

purplepoppy · Answer

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.

DannyUk2017 · Answer

All the funky set like, chinese, japanese korean, mandarin..

convo_king89 · Answer

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

Andres77 · Answer

chinese or russian or arabic. having to learn a new alphabet would kick my butt

Fireguy17 · Answer

English. from reading other's posts many simply do not grasp it at all.

Guardian45 · Answer

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

bornnoutisdee · Answer

For a native English speaker probably Arabic or some Asian language

TheSpaceGnome · Answer

Any dead language thats very different from any existing language to the point of being nearly impossible to decipher.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

Everything in Asia Arabic and Hebrew Ancient Greek Aramaic

AyushMate · Answer

The language to understand what's going on inside a women's head 😂😂😅

OddBeMe · Answer

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.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

Japanese, Sanskrit, Korean, Russian

Nik1hil · Answer

Mandarin!.. By far

LavLavLuv · Answer

Mandarin, hokkien, arabic, farsi

Selena1987 · Answer

Maybe Chinese or Japanese

Anonymous · Answer

I’m going to say Navajo.

Princessvarsha · Answer

Chinese I think soo

Nikki1989 · Answer

Klingon.

BLP11520 · Answer

German is harder than most

dolemite58 · Answer

mandarin or russian

tfan1 · Answer

Chinese, mandarin or cantonese

Starrrboy · Answer

Chinese, Korean, japanese...

Imsmurter1 · Answer

For me Finnish looks really hard.

Jmmmfi4 · Answer

PROBABLY ARABIC... OR MANDARIN

riverrat3 · Answer

English

Ameer99 · Answer

Arabic

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