what is the hardest language you ever learn?

Cantonese and Mandarin. They do not have any Alphabet so you have to painstakingly memorize each word and then you have to have the right intonation, otherwise you'll end up saying the wrong thing. For example, teacher is "Lao Shu" but it is pronounced a certain way. If you don't get the right intonation, you could end up calling your teacher a mouse instead. My classmate did that in high school. Growing up in Hong Kong, it was part of the syllabus to learn the language so I stuck with it until High School. I eventually switched to French instead.

i think the hardest language is Japanese apparently the words is the same as chinese, but the expression and pronounce is all different, when i learn this language, it also gave me headache.

I tried learning German and Croatian. I got my headache all the time because it's so hard understanding and how they construct their phrases. So I decided not to continue. I only found Japanese hard with their writing. Not the language because I have friends and some family who speaks fluently. But when I tried to read them, I got different translations. Their characters are mostly the same but different meanings. And some of their language are different for boys and girls. At first they thought I was a guy because I sometimes talk words that only guys do because of my brother and my friends says I speak weird Japanese because I sometimes mixed them.

I have a language learning disability so I have never been able to learn another language, I have trouble with aspects of English that are part of the disability... I have heard some signed-English or "signglish" and that was tough enough

Definitely Russian. Like you I wanted to study languages at High school - French was required (in England) but we had the option of German or Russian. Russian seemed a bit more unique and cool so I chose it. Ouch!!! To start with as you say you have to get familiar with a totally different alphabet in the Cyrillic alphabet....I found it very tough but I have used it on rare occasions in my life

I have learned Mandarin language some couple years ago, its really hard to me to learn the pronouncation, thousands of characters (Han Zi / Kan Ji). The other language that i know is hard is Arabic language.

I learned Spanish and Chinese. From this experience I think Chinese is much more difficult for someone whose first language is English. Much harder than Spanish.

The hardest language I've ever learned is Arabic. I took a few classes just for fun, and because my friend wanted me to go with her. So I asked myself, why not? I thought it would be fun and easy but no way. The arabic teacher was very strict and difficult to understand. She assumed that we would get the words and memorize it right away. But arabic is so hard to understand verbally and when you write it. I can ask you guys to try it you want but it is extremely difficult. But I like challenges and would love to face them, but the arabic classes cost money and I didn't have a lot of patience for the class because there were a lot of trouble makers who fool around a lot in the class. So Arabic was the hardest language I have learned, and I dont recommend but I can say it could be a good try for you to learn some basic words in Arabic but it will be hard to remember also. So, good luck mylotters and have a great day!

it was the classical chinese that the hardest language i ever encountered. you know chinese is pretty hard for the beginner,therefore,the classical chinese is twice harder than normal chinese,another word one classical chinese word could replace many normal chinese,and you would find out that some classical chinese is flexible,unique,make up of many strokes.trust me,if you want to know who is the professor,I would say it's Lao Zi,I love reading his classical chinese,though sometimes it drove me nuts!

I tried learning Chinese because I was so fond of the language. The language is just so complicated that you would wonder how Chinese people ever learned all the pronunciation and characters. I learned that even some Chinese people are not really familiar with all of the characters which makes the language all the more interesting. I tried learning Mandarin and Cantonese, both were very hard to learn but if I had to choose the harder, it's got to be Cantonese.

Hi, In my openion hardes language is English, because English is the common language for all the native languages, In this world if you know the English it is easy to survive any whare, and also when you take the example of computer manufacturing and the softwares development communications most of in English, so English is the greatest and hard one, if you feel I know English fluently even though there are so many mystakes and new thinks are existed in English, Please test your knowledge in English.

For my major I have to learn multipule languages. So far I've taken Japanese (the easiest to learn by far) Italian, French and I'm currently taking Spanish. I have learned some German as well. My romance languages keep mixing together so they are by far the most difficult. I would say the worst attempt for me was and still is French. It's too close to Italian. They have the same basic structure with different accents and lettering. So learning French was a nightmare. Spanish doesn't seem so bad but I'm early in.

The hardest language is korean language.. It's very hard to pronounce their word for sure. The character they used used very weird... If you like learn a language then it will not a hard thing for we to learn it for sure.

At school my second language was French. At First it seemed hard, it takes some time to learn the language better so at the end when i graduated i passed French.;)

I think that Japanese and Russian have been the hardest languages to learn, because the alphabets are different from the one that I am used to. It was definately a challenge to learn Japanese. I started learning how to write hiragana and katakana, but the Chinese characters (kanji) are really hard to learn, and I can only read some of the very simple characters. I think that Russian is a beautiful language, and I am trying to learn it at the moment, but it is hard to to learn how to write and read it. Another language that I found quite hard is Polish. I didn't have a learn a new alphabet, but the pronounciation is often hard.

Well, i think that chinese people have the hardest language , and the arabian people too . I don`t know indians .. But as i wanted to learn , the ahrdest is german language . I learned english , french , a little italian and a little spanish , but german language it`s the hardest . I was at 2 classes , and then i couldn`t go , because the teacher didn`t know how to make us learn . From the first lesson , she asked us to read from a book , but how can i read properly , if i don`t know that language ? and i quit that class .