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Most of the dead languages.
To me it would have to be Chinese. I heard it take them 20 years to master it.
Gaelic (Irish), Welsh, Finnish and definitely Maltese..that shit is fucked up...
There is an African "click" language that would seem hard to master. I don't think it is Swahili, though.
The Hawaiian langugage has only 12 letters, so one might thing it's easy, but with so few choices, a lot of the words sound alike.
To George W. Bush, the English language.
Voted : Chinese
For me, any of the multiple languages clumped under the single name "Chinese." This includes Mandarin, Cantonese, Shianghiese, etc. the whole appraoch to language is just 'foreign' to my Western mind. The subtleties of tone differentiations alone ... !
Japanese is a close second. It is easier (to me) than Chinese, but the three separate alphabets creates complexity and confusion.
Voted : English
English is the hardest to learn for children, at least as far as European languages are concerned.
I find english spelling quite difficult from time to time but its grammar, at least to some extent, is pretty simple.
Learning languages should be divided to actual language and to the written form.
Cthxs, the pronunciation of Japanese is pretty simple. Almost all the words go consonant-vowel-consonent-vowel-consonent-vowel like: arigato, Yamamoto, and murasaki. And the vowels are extremely consistent, like Spanish. When writing Japanese, Hirigana and Katakana are relatively easy, but Kanji is the same as Chinese and that's where the trouble starts.
shit...I shoulda put Ebonix
english? it has the most easy grammar and syntaxis i have ever seen, i would vote it as the most easy language in the world even without taking into account that we in fact listen to it so often since it is the international language.
English, one of the most difficult to learn? You must be joking.I speak 8 languages and I now understand the expression "it's all greek to me". Now that is indeed a difficult language and I am not even refering to ancient greek. Aside from being difficult, I must admit that once you get the hang of it, it is an extrememly rich language.
Voted : African "Click: Language
forgetmenot: that click language is hard to write too...
English is soooo soooo easy. The only problem might be spelling and pronunciation but everything else is easy!!! Not english native speaker
The most diffhcult is Hebrew
To me, French is one of the most difficult langages in the whole world, few French master their own language, and I'm French.
Besides, I study Japanese and Chinese and I can say is very easy. People are afraid because those both langages are totally different of their own culture so they don't imagine that it could be easy.
Would anyone trust me if I say that English is much harder than Japanese ?
where is Czech? czech is very difficult language. one of difficult..
Voted : English
It is if you live in the southwest U.S.
Voted : Martian
Still in the development stage, creation, transcription, interpretation, grokkiness..
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