Which language is the most difficult to learn?

@mari123 (1861)
China
November 4, 2010 9:46am CST
Deciding which language is the most difficult to learn may not be as simple as you think. Different languages present different challenges, and what constitutes a difficult language depends a lot on the individual studying it. May be you want to say arabic is the most difficult language,but as i know,on the contrary,chinese is the most difficult language in the world.In europe or USA,most people can speak about three or four languages,such as german,dutch,french,english etc. if you are from europe or USA,Do you have natural talent to learn so many languages? Once upon a time,I had lunch together with some foreigners who come from europe country,they joked that english is the most simplest language to learn. We asked "Why?" He answered:Because english has only 26 letters!We laughed out loud! Do you agreee with what he said?Please share your suggestions with us!Thank you!
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smilywomen
@surekharathi (14146)
• India
1 Nov 12
I think no language is difficult if you make a plan for learning it. If we have confidence then we can learn anything. For me nothing is impossible.
zeedo666
@zeedo666 (150)
• Poland
26 Oct 12
Yes, English is simple indeed, because it doesn't almost have verb inflection, there are no grammatical cases etc.
maehan
@maehan (1439)
• United States
4 Nov 10
To me, any language that is new is difficult. As everything so "Alien" to you and have no clue at all. Thus, my point of view is anything new is difficult.
333tangtang
@333tangtang (404)
• China
6 Nov 10
haha English has 26 letters~ yeah...but it does not mean it is simple and easy to learn! Well.everything is difficult when you do not understand it at the beginning, but when you know it better then you think it's easier. Not only for the learn languages I guess, for more of stuff that we do not know then we learn of new news,we have the same feeling,just hard,because we do not know ;-) English is my second language, It was hard for me at the beginning when I start to learn English, right now I do not speak perfect English,But friends and workmates are understanding what I am talking about,which means right now English is not difficult for me anymore right now,but it used to very difficult for me ;-) most of my western friends told me,Chinese is the hardest language for them to learn...I am not sure if it is, because I am a Chinese ;-)
gunagohan
@gunagohan (3414)
• India
4 Nov 10
It maybe easy for them .... It depends on the deciding factors of the keen interest in learning the language... Yes, those 26 alphabets constitutes the very big language known as English and it is the medium of communication throughout the world.... According to me , Tamil a regional language in one of the states in my country is the most challenging Language in the world... being a native speaker even, i don't understand many words in it.. They say that there are around 2 lakhs of words are inside the language and if somebody is gonna speak with ancient accent , i would end up with partial understanding and conclude with my own accent.. This language is said to be the worlds 3rd old language which emerged as a massive language and developed many branch languages and they come accordingly with this..