Hardest language in the WORLD??

What language could be the most difficult on the planet? Let's dive in and find out.
Check out the U.S. Department of State page on foreign language training here:
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[@ulrikof.2486]

Afaik, the most complicated language is the conlang Ițkuîl (if not counting intentionally hard fun languages like the ones made for Agna Schwa's "cursed conlang" competition).

[@sudanemamimikiki1527]

the hardest language in the world is the language of love.0

[@linguacarpa]

LOL yes you may be onto something. We need to contact the Department of State and get this list updated 😆

[@ulrikof.2486]

Some speak it well.

[@AimAdolfAim]

💯

[@asaphyx_]

I've been learning Korean for 7 months and oh boy yeah... it's tough but! Regardless! It's such a great breath of fresh air when you can use it semi proficiently and have a conversation with someone in the language they're comfortable in. There is no limit to our ability if we push ourselves. Live your video and if you have a discord server or ID, I'd love to chat about language with you! 감사합니다! 좋은 하루 보내요! ㅎㅎ

[@linguacarpa]

Thank you! And I agree wholeheartedly. Sharing different languages with people from cultures around the world is a deeply satisfying connection and human experience. I'm hoping to build out some type of community hub for language learners to connect in the near future. Thank you for your interest!

[@Dunkle0steus]

Japanese is very different from English. Even though you could have phrased the sentence "I have an apple" in Japanese with a personal pronoun, the way it's shown in the video is more natural. This is because Japanese is a pro-drop language. In normal Japanese, you omit any information that could be inferred through context, whether that's apparent information or just the most likely interpretation of the sentence. Because it's more normal to talk about your own possessions than anyone else's, the literal(ish) translation of that Japanese sentence, "holding/possessing an apple" can be assumed to refer to the speaker. If you chose to add a personal pronoun to the sentence, to make it more like "I am possessing an apple", what you've actually done is put emphasis on yourself, as if the speaker needs to pay extra attention to that part of the sentence. Like saying "***I*** have an apple* instead of just "I have an apple". So the meaning of the sentence changes.

[@linguacarpa]

That is an awesome breakdown! I did purposely leave out the possible 私は at the beginning since I wasn't trying to emphasize the "I" I also love that term "pro-drop," just like Spanish is but English and French never went down that road.

[@frenchvanilla343]

Hey isn't that's a tiny bit like Spanish in the sense that you also don't really need the personal pronouns unless you want to emphasize the person or people to which the pronouns belong? But differs because Spanish still carries explicit information about the personal pronouns of the subject of the sentence through verb conjugation, whereas (according to you, idk anything about Japanese lol) in Japanaese the subject and their pronouns are mostly inferred through context? (At least in the first person) Do I have this right?

[@Dunkle0steus]

@@frenchvanilla343 yes, there is no conjugation of verbs in Japanese to agree with any pronouns. The phrase used in the video "ringo-o motteimasu" could be "watashi wa ringo-o motteimasu" or "anata wa ringo-o motteimasu" (I have an apple and you have an apple, respectively). When you use a personal pronoun in the sentence in Japanese, one way to interpret it in English could be "As for me, I have an apple" because of the extra emphasis it puts on you.

[@ulrikof.2486]

The english phrase "there is a newspaper on the table" is in japanese expressed by "table-of top-to newspaper-topic exists" (1:1-translated).

[@Dunkle0steus]

@@ulrikof.2486 It would be "テーブルの上には新聞があります" or literally "table's top at: newspaper exists" Not sure what you are trying to write though.

[@elijahdage5523]

As a native English speaker, English is the hardest language.

[@linguacarpa]

Me as a native English speaker still trying to spell "receive" correctly 💀

[@AimAdolfAim]

The spelling in English is hard

[@AimAdolfAim]

It all depends on the native language usually. To be honest speaking isn't the hard part, it's spelling (for me), spelling in English is a nightmare when writing a paragraph.

[@AthanasiosJapan]

Chinese has easy grammar, but difficult pronunciation and difficult writing system. Japanese has easy pronunciation, but difficult grammar and difficult writing system. Korean has easy writing system, but difficult grammar and pronunciation. Arabic has difficult writing system, difficult grammar and difficult pronunciation. In Chinese, Japanese and Korean you have one easy aspect that you can master easily and get some confidence. In Arabic all apects are hard.

[@linguacarpa]

Dang that sounds ROUGH lol. I have never tried to formally study Arabic but from the glances I've taken at it occasionally it seemed very intimidating.

[@BamaHmmer1]

I think French is one of the hardest because of the pronouns, tenses (I think there's 7), and plural/singular words. I just finished my Passe Composse (Past Tense) unit and it was very difficult until I figured it out. 😁

[@linguacarpa]

I will respectfully disagree 😎 That said, just because a language isn't ranked as a hard or super hard language doesn't mean it is always easy! Even languages similar to English have parts that can be very difficult for native English speakers. To your example, I know how tricky passé composé and imparfait can be sometimes!

[@alexislopez9355]

Bro, I'm picking up French very quickly. I don't think it's that difficult. I knew Spanish and English before I started French, so my background made it easier.

[@jonathanmacdonald9609]

I'm also learning french!! I'm curious, though: have you learned any other languages as an adult? Also, how many languages do you know? I suspect that you, like me, only speak english, and french is the first language you're learning as an adult. It's hard! I definitely find it taxing sometimes! That said, I think it's one of the harder category one languages. It may even be harder for you than some of the category two languages would be (Everyone struggles with different things, especially with sounds!) but I think what's making you feel it's what you said is that it's hard Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there aren't languages that are much, much harder.

[@linguacarpa]

@@alexislopez9355 Yes, the Spanish knowledge is giving you a huge advantage there! I learned Spanish before French as well and man it made it a lot easier.

[@BamaHmmer1]

@@alexislopez9355 good for you :D

[@johnnygibbs7709]

Dude why didn’t you explain what a “object marking particle” is?

[@RaysOfPivot]

Marks the object of a sentence. If we had one, I'll use X for example. It'd be like "I have an apple X" Or "I throw the ball X to Sally" We don't have those in English. Japanese has a whole bunch of these weird particles

[@LxoEditz4Life]

How you doing carp

[@static-dotdotdot]

I find it interesting that German is considered a category 2 language as I've found German to be easier than other languages like French. English is considered a Germanic language, any idea as to why German would be harder for a speaker of the same language family?

[@linguacarpa]

English has roots in Germanic languages, absolutely. But it's such an amalgamate at this point that it has lost some of the specificities and complexities that modern German has. For example, English doesn't really have gender associated with all nouns (like the masculine and feminine in Latin languages), but German has masculine, feminine, and neuter genders. German also has a "case" system, which is really frightening at first glance because of all the complexities! There's more to it, but just to give you an idea.

[@static-dotdotdot]

@@linguacarpa I totally didn't consider that the German roots are quite dated compared to the latin roots of English. Linguistics is very interesting and I think you teach it in a very digestable way.

[@ulrikof.2486]

Belonging to the same language family doesn't mean they are similarly hard to learn. E.g. german has three genders, english has none. German has case-inflected articles indicating also gender, english has only unchanged "a" and "the". German distinguishes vowel length, english does not. And so on. But english is not an easy language. The most difficult parts of english are its orthography, its many phrasals, the irregular verbs, and its high degree of homonymy and semantic fuzzyness.

[@rohithkumarsp]

they list Tamil and Telugu but not Kannada ? wut

[@linguacarpa]

I'm guessing they choose the languages on their list by popularity and utility for their needs, but regardless there are obviously a lot of languages that are just left off entirely.

[@NeptunePomegranate]

Another Carp W

[@Mcflibb]

shut up thomas

[@NeptunePomegranate]

@@Mcflibb Shut up tate

[@linguacarpa]

Now now, let's be civilized.

[@WillyZeBilly]

What about Enchantment Table

[@linguacarpa]

You're right, that language is crazy difficult. I still can't read it. And the letters keep literally flying off the pages.

[@LxoEditz4Life]

Also why is mandarin in cat 4??? It doesn’t have an alphabet and you just have to learn the symbols of the object you are trying to say

[@linguacarpa]

Mandarin is absolutely a category 4! Not having an alphabet is one of the reasons it's so hard for us. The alphabet only has 26 letters, but there are over 80,000 or even more than 100,000 characters in Chinese. Each one has a correct way to be written, to be pronounced, and different ways to be combined with other characters to make new meaning... It's insane.

[@shwanmirza9306]

Symbols? Nah, you meant Asian Hieroglyphics that's used for TOP SECRET documents

[@linguacarpa]

@@shwanmirza9306 😂

[@Denabella]

Irish Gaelic... And it's not even on the list.

[@linguacarpa]

Yeah it's certainly not an extensive list. I think Gaelic sounds beautiful.

[@jack_the_nascar_fan08]

Hi Mr carpenter

[@linguacarpa]

Hi!

[@pianissimo5951]

why 117 views???

[@linguacarpa]

I don't know! I will keep working to make my content better. 🫠

[@Eason22848]

Hi

[@linguacarpa]

Bonjour 👋