Among all the languages, which do you think is the hardest?

English is my mother tongue and I would be scared to try learning a language with a different type of alphabet. I have been Bulgarian writing and it looked impossible to understand and I preferred Romanian because it has the same sort of alphabet I am used to. Even though Finnish has the sort of alphabet I like I talked about it and the verb system and meanings sound challenging. "There are fifteen different words to say what the boy is doing" kind of put me off. I explained to the oldest daughter that " I like this book quite a lot" or "I like this book very much" were correct but "I like this book quite much" wouldn't be right. The most difficult languages for me would be Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic. My friend is learning Punjabi and it looks really difficult. I wish him luck and I wouldn't attempt to learn a difficult language. I am currently learning Spanish and that is relatively easy.

Strictly speaking I don't find learning any language hard.Given a choice and longevity of life I would like to learn all the languges of the world! That is because I am a lover of languages - whether they are as highly developed as Sanskrit(which is my passion)or just a tribal language, we have several of them in India. If asked me what language I would like to learn, then my first love is for Classical Languages: There you have:Hebrew,Arabic, Greek,Latin and Chinese. Among modern foreign langauges, I would love to learn Spanish, German and French. If at all I am forced to think of a language as hard it must be Chinese- esp. because of script and the several levels of intonation for semantic variation! But the harder something is the more excited I gat about that!

I think not every one can be expert about some language. There is a thing that we call 'talent'. Truthly, I can not speak with my town/local language. Although I lived here since kid, but I still cannot speak with my local language. I do not know what happen to me, but I understand if some one talk to me with local language but I can not speak in local language to respon my friend or some one who talk to me...Hemm...that's veri difficult thing, But I always try to handle this problem until now.

it is really fun to learn new words from other languages..=) but sometimes, it is also a bit frustrating, especially if you can't ride with the grammar and you forget words a lot..=( i find the finnish as one of the most difficult language. it's grammar are very far from English. they have very long words, difficult pronunciation, and a very complicated grammar.. whheew.. in fact, i am really having a had time studying that language now. but i still would want to master it because me and my friends will be leaving for Finland soon and i am much more excited going there than being frustrated of learning the language..=) but i guess, i will be easier for us to learn the language in Finland where we can encounter some real Finnish conversations. good luck to us..=)

Those highly inflected languages such as latin, greek, hebrew, sanskrit and arabic. The use of respect conjugations in japanese is somewhat complicated as well. It is further split to the honorific and humble verbs with several conjugations per verb or at least for some.