chinese or arabic
What is the hardest language to learn?
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 JCloves |
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Posts: 207 (08/19/2009 6:43 PM) |
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Nico Corvus |
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Posts: 45583 (08/19/2009 6:52 PM) |
English sucks because there are 43920493204902394032 exceptions to every damn rule.
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FinnFox |
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Posts: 546 (08/19/2009 7:00 PM) |
I haven't read this whole thread but it depends on what your mother tongue is.
I have studied a few foreign languages and English was by far the easiest. German, French and Russian are all much harder. Spanish is pretty easy once you know French. I can't imagine how hard Chinese and Japanese might be. |
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MiZZAmaNda |
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Posts: 3239 (08/19/2009 7:01 PM) |
Nico Corvus wrote: English is super easy. |
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badfur |
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Posts: 1022 (08/19/2009 7:06 PM) |
Surely Chinese/Arabic languages and Russian are top of the pops in that aspect. I think also French and surely German, which, although resembling English in a
lot of ways, has a different structure in terms of syntax (not to mention pronunciation, gender etc). And Greek, anyone? Pretty much everyone seems to have big
problems learning greek:s
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 foto87 |
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Posts: 7857 (08/19/2009 7:10 PM) |
English is the hardest language to learn
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Nico Corvus |
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Posts: 45588 (08/19/2009 7:14 PM) |
Dylishis wrote: Ha ha me too. My french teacher yelled at me all the time. I had 5 years of spanish before taking my first year of french. She could totally tell I spoke spanish. 
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kastang |
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Posts: 1111 (08/19/2009 7:22 PM) |
Nico Corvus wrote:I speak Spanish with a French accent!  Everyone tells me
that.
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Nico Corvus |
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Posts: 45591 (08/19/2009 7:24 PM) |
Ha ha kastang!
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kastang |
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Posts: 1113 (08/19/2009 7:29 PM) |
I started French back in 2001 and I just started taking it again this semester. I want to take formal Spanish classes but they are always full. My Spanish is
so nasal.
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JustlikeHoney |
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Posts: 1690 (08/19/2009 7:34 PM) |
maifanluva00 wrote: ditto. |
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bluegrass60062 |
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Posts: 17184 (08/19/2009 7:41 PM) |
xxGirlxxFixerxx wrote:they also don't use all the same sounds. Like Japanese does not have an "r" sound so they approximate it with an "l" sound. Which is presumably why a Japanese man I worked with for several years not only pronounced my name "Erin" like "Ellen", but he spelled it "Elin". I wanted to wap him.
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languages like Mandarin and Cantonese are pitch
languages that's why when they talk in English you hear their voices going up and down so that makes them sound 'funny'. Plus English isn't
phonetic and there are plenty of exceptions to rules, which makes it a challenge. Plus when you're learning a new language, when you're translating
from your native language to the new language syntax becomes an issue, leading to awkward sentence structure and again them sounding 'funny'
