What is the hardest language to learn?
Extremely Hard: The hardest language to learn is: Polish-Seven Cases, Seven Genders and very difficult pronunciation. Average English speaker is fluent at about the age 12; the average Polish speaker is fluent in their language not until age 16. .
Very Hard: Finnish, Hungarian, and Estonian-These languages are hard because of the countless noun cases. However, the cases are more like English prepositions added to the end of the root.Pretty Hard: Ukrainian and Russian complex grammar and different alphabet but easier pronunciation. Serbian-Also similar to other Slavic languages with a complex case and gender system, but it also has many tenses. alphabet
Fairly Hard: Chinese and Japanese-No cases, no genders, no tenses, no verb changes, short words, very easy grammar, however, writing is hard. But to speak it is very easy. Also intonations make it harder but certainly not harder than Polish pronunciation. I know a Chinese language teacher that says people pick up Chinese very easy, but he speaks several languages and could not learn Polish. I am learning some Chinese, it is not the hardest language maybe even the easiest language to learn. Not the hardest language by any measure. Try to learn some Chinese and Polish your self and you will see which is the hardest language.
Average: French-lots of tenses but not used and moderate grammar. German-only four cases and like five exceptions, everything is logical, of course.
Easy: Spanish and Italian
Basic to hard: English, no cases or gender, you hear it everywhere, spelling can be hard and British tenses you can use the simple and continues tense instead of the perfect tenses and you will speak American English. English at the basic level is easy but to speak it like a native it’s hard because of the dynamic idiomatic nature.
So what – the hardest language to learn
So what is hard? Hard really means, it’s just a longer learning curve. Look I am in my forties and I learned Polish and I have problems with languages, in addition to having a bleeding in the brain. So if I can do it, the only thing holding you back from learning the language of your dreams is method and patience.
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408 responses to The hardest language to learn
The Polish language have 5 tenses but in use are only 3 times: past, present and future.
I see Polish people who left a comments don`t know polish language. my Polish is fluent but English isn`t hehe.
Hello everyone..
Everyone say about the hardest language,but I want to share here that the EASIEST language to learn is Malay. Of course I’m malay and I’d learn English, Chinese,and Japanese. It has no tense, no gender,and the pronounciation is very easy.try it and visit Malaysia ok..
Polish has ‘aspects’ which are different but similar to tenses and can be equally complex for a foreigner to learn.
I think, the most structured language is Sanskrit. It can be easily used to write exact specification. And really speaking it is also a very hard language to learn ! It has 8 cases, and even the names are declined.
* W Szczebrzeszynie Chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie i Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie
* Stół z powyłamywanymi nogami.
* Jola lojalna – say it quickly
Polish is wonderful language ^^
I would love to learn that language as it is the root of many other languages.
Case and point, if anyone can read and say this with ease I would be impressed, this is why, Polish is the hardest language to learn.
Silly list.
Also, the descriptions of Chinese and Japanese on this page are mixed together for no reason.
No cases: no, but both have noun classifiers
no genders: true
no tenses: Japanese has tenses and Chinese has verb aspect.
no verb changes: Japanese does.
short words: only Chinese. Japanese can be long.
very easy grammar: Japanese word order is almost backwards from English
however, writing is hard: yes, both
But to speak it is very easy: Japanese is easy to pronounce but Chinese isn’t particularly easy
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