what do you think is the most difficult language?

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EmperorNero

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I dunno, even other kids who takes other languages agreed latin's the hardest. we have latin, spanish, french, and german offered at my school. the unanimous (of the students) level of difficulty is as follows:

- latin
- german
- french
- spanish

I guess anyone w/ a terrific memory will find latin easy, but I don't have that kind of memory so it's hard for me.
 

kabelogo

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Hindi is a very dificult language to learn. Even though the spoken language allows a lot of slack, writing it becomes very dificult because many sounds are very close, or the same. With over 35 constanants and 12 vowels, it's tough work.
 

Marine06

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Cant remember what its called... but the secret language in India that their holy books were written in.
 

CyberSax

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Hindi is a very dificult language to learn. Even though the spoken language allows a lot of slack, writing it becomes very dificult because many sounds are very close, or the same. With over 35 constanants and 12 vowels, it's tough work.

No it's not. Hindi is supposed to be the best phoenetic language around, as all words are written exactly as they would be said. The 35 consonant and 12 vowel sounds encompass all common sounds (at least in the Indo-European tongue).

If you look in an English dictionary, they use an "extended" form of the Roman alphabet to show how the word is pronounced, because the English alphabet isn't very precise. Yes, there are 4 consonants that represent "d" in Hindi, but those 4 consonant sounds exist in English too, and people use them all the time without even noticing it.

And I can assure you, that no two consonants or vowels in the Hindi alphabet are the same. Whereas, in English, three letters (c, k, and q) are often pronounced the same way.

For English speakers, the hardest languages to learn are the oriental languages, because the writing style and grammar are entirely different from what's common in Indo-European languages.
 

Mday

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i would say the asian languages are hard, as in chinese, japanese and all that (korean...). And then there are dialects of chinese which have different sounds, but use the same written language. Though mandarin is the national dialect (or so i've been told).

I don't know much of the russian language and other former USSR languages, or hindi, or middle east languages, so i'd just group those together as, I have no clue. Then there are the African nation's languages too, i guess i'll just call those, i have no clue, volume 2. And then there are indian\native american languages, which are a mystery to me, and other aboriginal languages...

English is pretty much full of stupid rules... I guess i'll stick german here to.

the romance languages are pretty easy to learn. Mastering is a whole different issue for ME.

I don't know what to do with scandanavian languages, or iceland...