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

woahhh chinese, french and german?? That's amazing! I can't even remember 500 characters from my Chinese lessons

 

Lol, Thanks.
I am a Hongkonger.
It is nearly a basic for us to understanding of Good Chinese and English
or else you may not even have the chance to go into University

However, even if you ask me if I can remember 500 characters in chinese(to speak or write), I reckon my brain will also be FORKED

 

and here I thought you remember those thousands kanji....
well cn character kinda fun to see~ da moonrunes drawing~
hmm china use same letter despite different language such as hakka, mandarin or tibetan they just have different way to spell is that true?

 

Human language

 

Yes
All Chinese use the same letter(unless you separate into simplified or traditional)

For Hakka or Tibetan, they developed a native way of speaking. And thus, pronounce and sentence making is fully FORKED to the roof while you can still regard it as Chinese.

And come on, even for us, Chinese , remembering and being able to fluently write and pronounce Chinese letter is hard.
And for god sake, some letter is rarely used
I still remember my Chinese teacher going online to search for a word pronunciation regarding a poetry

 

Chinese, my sister took a class for chinese language, when I saw her speaking chinese, watching chinese drama and writing chinese letter, I got headache suddenly

 

Well, it changes person to person like seeing someone do something perfectly fine makes me wanna be perfect in it to......you can call it jealousy, perhaps!? but I feel incomplete to be left behind so I started taking French,Spanish classes and well it was not easy but I guess latin or Greek or something would be Hard.

 

In my experience, English is the easiest language to learn. German is harder. Italian and Spanish a bit better than German. French, I didn't even attempt. Russian, or Finnish, haha, never. For Asian languages: Korean script is the easiest, Chinese grammar is the best, Japanese pronunciation is the most worry-free. I find Thai the hardest to learn.

 

What rolling? You just put your tongue close to the roof of your mouth before your front teeth and the wrinkly crap behind them and breathe out fast.

Edit: I just tested it and the tip of my tongue ended up being just below the wrinkly crap behind your front teeth.

 

Also, I'm here to brag that Finnish is my native language. Studying it sucks, believe me. There's so many rules and crap that I don't even try to remember them and I don't even use the few that I do remember.

 

They say it’s due to English is a lazy language.

 

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I think I read somewhere that the difficulty of a language depends on how similar/different its rules and characters are to yours. For me (English/Chinese), Punjabi and Arabic just looks like a bunch of squiggly lines.

 

I have this problem with Thai. Good language but can I pronounce it? Hell no. I sound like a stroke patient.

 

You started on a wrong foot, there's not an universal graph that ranks the languages by difficulty. Languages can be roughly grouped second their written system, you have ideograms, letters, even hieroglyphs. So someone that was raised using this system will obviously find difficult to learn a language in that other system, because in that case they'd need to learn a new system from scratch.

On a side note, English generally is one of the easiest language to learn but hard to master cuz there are many words that can mean a wide range of things second the occasion.

 

For some people, proper English.