Top 10 Hardest Languages to Learn

Hardest languages to learn for English speakers #languages #shorts

[@TheAmazingGalaxyCats]

*goes to duolingo aggressively*

[@user-bl9bl2us3e]

I am also using that software

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

Icelandic and Gothic and Norse and Faroese are some of the easiest category 1 languages with very easy category 1 pronunciation and the word memorability / prettiness of the words from the easiest languages ever like English and Dutch and Norwegian, Hungarian is a mid category 2 language that also has easy pronunciation and very memorable words, and Finnish / Estonian / Latvian are category 2 languages as well that are just slightly harder to memorize than Hungarian etc, they are among the easiest languages with very light spelling that use normal letters (the Latin alphabet aka the easiest alphabet ever) and don’t belong on this list, they should be on easy languages lists, tho I guess it’s still good that they were at least included on a list, as they don’t get included often, tho they should be among the top recommendations on every language recommendation list as the Norse languages like Icelandic and Norse etc are the most alpha languages ever created and are among the prettiest ever like English and Dutch etc, and Hungarian is also very pretty as most Hungarian words are very pretty and easy to memorize, as one naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster! 🇮🇸

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

Navajo is a category 6 language, harder than Russian which is category 5 with different alphabet, and harder than category 4 languages such as Polish and Czech with very heavy spelling that isn’t easy to read, which are definitely not easier than Icelandic which has a way lighter spelling that is lighter than the spelling of French or German etc and is very easy to read, so it isn’t easier than Hungarian - I am learning Icelandic and Norse and all other Germanic languages and Hungarian and Finnish etc, and they are all very easy to read / learn, náda ‘hard’ about them, tho any language is going to seem ‘hard’ to a beginner, I guess, but, the real hard languages that are objectively hard are category 6 to category 10 languages with odd scripts and characters and tones etc that are impossible to read / memorize / pronounce etc!

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

By the way, my current levels are... - upper intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / German - writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish - upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian - intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian / Welsh - beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene - total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / Urkers / Hunsrik / East Norse / Ruhrpöttisch / Alemannic / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Pälzische Deutsch / Austrian German / Waddisch / Palatine German / Westföälsk Sassisk / Austro-Bavarian / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / Sognamål / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Yiddish / Afrikaans / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc) (I highly recommend learning Dutch / Icelandic + Norse + Faroese / Norwegian as they are so magical, as pretty / refined / poetic as English - all other Germanic and the other pretty languages on my list are also gorgeous, so they are all a great option!)

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

The correct rankings are... Icelandic / Norse / Faroese and Slovene are category 1 languages, and Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian are category 2 languages - they should be on easy languages list, they don’t belong on this list, as do all other Germanic languages! Irish and Scottish Gaelic are category 3 languages, still pretty easy, compared to most others! Czech and Polish are category 4 languages with very heavy spelling! Russian is a category 5 language using a different alphabet! Navajo is a category 6 or category 7 language, totally not easier than Hungarian lol! Thai and Vietnamese are category 8 and 7 languages, extremely difficult to learn / memorize / understand or to differentiate between such short words that sound exactly the same, same as Chinese and Korean words! Arabic and Korean are category 9 languages, impossible to read and to understand short words that sound exactly the same! Japanese is category 9.5 or 10, as its writing is as hard as that of Chinese, honestly, only the pronunciation is slightly less complicated, but it still has pitch accents, which are similar to tones! Cantonese and Mandarin are category 10 languages, as both the characters and the tonal pronunciation are category ten, and they have up to eight tones!

[@Wumboo1]

As an English speaker, Arabic looks like Minecraft enchantment table 💀

[@Raff31]

I think Hebrew is much more like enchantment table than Arabic

[@felipedadia-hf5vu]

​@@Raff31pretty much the enchantment table is from another game i think it was the galactical alphabet

[@whyyynot]

Lol i know a bit of arabic

[@knockbuck]

Bruh I learn Arabic ngl it's ez for me

[@powerxcode5333]

It is semetic

[@mahfuzasultanatania1479]

Bro Doesn't have any ear💀💀💀💀

[@user-yo5xn6io1p]

You're right bro😂, I hadn't realized 🤣

[@Ko_ko_pop]

😂😂

[@ThatGuyMalks]

Ears*

[@VltoYoutube]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 *insert goofy laughing*

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

Icelandic and Gothic and Norse and Faroese are some of the easiest category 1 languages with very easy category 1 pronunciation and the word memorability / prettiness of the words from the easiest languages ever like English and Dutch and Norwegian, Hungarian is a mid category 2 language that also has easy pronunciation and very memorable words, and Finnish / Estonian / Latvian are category 2 languages as well that are just slightly harder to memorize than Hungarian etc, they are among the easiest languages with very light spelling that use normal letters (the Latin alphabet aka the easiest alphabet ever) and don’t belong on this list, they should be on easy languages lists, tho I guess it’s still good that they were at least included on a list, as they don’t get included often, tho they should be among the top recommendations on every language recommendation list as the Norse languages like Icelandic and Gothic and Norse etc are the most alpha languages ever created and are among the prettiest ever like English and Dutch and Norwegian etc, and Hungarian is also very pretty as most Hungarian words are very pretty and easy to memorize, as one naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster! 🇮🇸

[@The_idiotxz]

As an arabic, I don’t even know how to speak my own language 😭-

[@The_Triple_Brothers]

What kind of Arabic do you speak

[@Broke_af.]

@@The_Triple_Brothersarabic!.

[@The_Triple_Brothers]

@@Broke_af. what kind of Arabic

[@daroldcarold3443]

@@The_Triple_Brothersi understand darija but im learning fosha right now 😊

[@The_Triple_Brothers]

@@daroldcarold3443 what country Arabic

[@gostafo2234]

Russian language has left the chat:

[@I.LOVE.RUSSIA.]

Да, водка это хорошо, но никто это не ценит

[@user-bv5bz2kz4t]

It's similar to polish, but polish is a little bit harder

[@paulinagniewek7966]

​@@user-bv5bz2kz4t I agree, I speak Polish and sometimes it is difficult for me to I agree, I speak Polish and sometimes it is difficult for me to speak

[@Sara-fd3dd]

It isn't that extremely hard in general, especially for the very similar vocabulary.

[@I.LOVE.RUSSIA.]

@@Sara-fd3dd ыюфжзйчб, yea

[@putamihrahmat8657]

Duolingo be like :🗿

[@kattiesx2530]

HELP HOW DOES IT HAVE A NECK

[@MaciekKusnierz]

True

[@IbishuCovet]

duolingo is good for vocabulary, but it teaches no grammar or conjugation or anything

[@geistescrashednana933]

Duolingo is dogshit, if you really wanna learn a new language

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

Icelandic is actually a category 1 language, like every other Norse / Germanic language - it’s way easier than I thought it would be at first, even though when I first started learning it I thought it was category 2 due to the vowels with accents, but Icelandic words are way easier to pronounce and to spell than German and French and Spanish words which can be with random accents or with many consonant clusters, because in Norse languages the vowels with accents are in fact different sounds and not actual accents, so Icelandic is easier than German / French / Spanish which are also category 1, and Slovene is also category 1, and Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian are category 2 languages, so these languages should be on easy languages lists! By the way, things such as language difficulty and prettiness etc are very objective facts, and the language difficulty level is determined by the aspect / type of writing system / alphabet used (the Latin alphabet is the easiest and most practical alphabet ever created) and the prettiness / memorability level of most of the words (pretty and distinctive words are naturally easy to learn) and the level of organization and lightness and by how easy or hard the pronunciation is etc, and pretty languages aka languages with mostly pretty words are automatically easy to learn, while the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish are the easiest to learn, and, all Germanic languages and the Celtic languages and the true Latin languages are all easy languages! Polish and Czech are category 4 languages tho not among the hardest ever, Russian and other similar languages using the Cyrillic alphabet are category 5, Navajo is category 6 or 7, Vietnamese is category 7, Thai and Indian languages are category 8 languages, Arabic languages and Korean are all category 9 languages, Japanese and Chinese languages are all category 10 languages with the hardest writing systems, which are not actual alphabets, but characters, that also have the hardest pronunciation which has tones and pitch accents!

[@nikkowood4476]

Navajo at 8 is wild. They have like 70 different versions of the same word lol

[@blueierblue4499]

Arabic has the most words if thats the standard

[@senantiasa]

@@blueierblue4499 I know Arabic. It has a lot of forms, but not as crazy as Navajo.. Just read up a bit of their grammar and you'll see grammar rules you've never even imagined.

[@h._.9]

​@@senantiasa arabic still has the hardest grammar with the hardest sounds to pronounce and over 12M words with no written vowels most of the time

[@senantiasa]

@@h._.9 How would you know Arabic grammar is harder than Navajo if you don't know any Navajo grammar? That's like saying person A is taller or shorter than person B despite never having seen person B.

[@h._.9]

@@senantiasa cuz it is. why do you think navajo's grammar is harder?

[@s00048]

As a Taiwanese(Traditional Chinese), Mandarin has a simple grammar system, which built on its complex characters.

[@konosaki]

It is often said that the Japanese language is difficult, but for us Japanese, learning Western languages is also extremely difficult. If you encounter a Japanese person who can speak Western languages, he or she has lived in the West for a long time or is very elite.

[@MrKeonGrayson]

I know a lot of Japanese people who speak English that never left Japan.

[@Luneatix98]

I'd love to learn Japanese, I'm someone who picks up things quickly when it comes to things I like (music ,movies ....etc) and I do pick up a lot when watching foreign movies like korean, italian and more but with Japanese, even tho I've been watching anime for so long now, and even though I know a lot of of words and expressions, I find it hard to form a sentence or to see patterns when it comes to how sentences are formed, on the contrary I've been familiar with korean series for not as long as Japanese but it's really easy for me to see the patterns and know how to form a sentence. Still I'm really determined to learn it.

[@drummersnare6276]

there are many japanese people who spesk fluent english with an american accent here in the US.

[@shunneko4694]

Because they live in the US!! We learn English in schools, so we can make and read a sentence in english, but many Japanese people can't speak and catch words in a conversation. I guess it's because our education system. We don't have many opportunities to speak or hear English. Those opportunities have been increasing in recent years though.

[@salmaislam7219]

You're Japanese but you speak fluent English konosaki

[@eio4557]

As a Japanese… it is hard to even learn Japanese myself

[@Lol-yi8qe]

Hiragana and katakana are pretty easy but kanji....

[@heroko_z]

​bruhhhhhhhh i hate my life since I started

[@aaGD-jg1dz]

日本人でも難しいよ。

[@nightc4006]

Yeah we japanese can’t even write and read 100% of our own alphabets lmao

[@ALTAYLI-HAN]

Japanese and Turkish are similar İki-maşta (Japanese) Git- mişti (Turkish)

[@Croatiaball21034]

Polish looks like someone smashed their keyboard: Chrząszcz, (this means beetle) Jędrzejczyk, (a polish name) Książka the name for book)

[@scvcebc]

I took a couple of Polish lessons and my mouth hurt. Too many consonants, not enough vowels.

[@JaJebie69]

@@scvcebc except Polish has more vowels than English

[@NoxaClimaxX]

@@JaJebie69 Too many *consecutive* consonants, perhaps

[@dawid2305]

Wyrewolwerowany

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

Icelandic is actually a category 1 language, like every other Norse / Germanic language - it’s way easier than I thought it would be at first, even though when I first started learning it I thought it was category 2 due to the vowels with accents, but Icelandic words are way easier to pronounce and to spell than German and French and Spanish words which can be with random accents or with many consonant clusters, because in Norse languages the vowels with accents are in fact different sounds and not actual accents, so Icelandic is easier than German / French / Spanish which are also category 1, and Slovene is also category 1, and Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian are category 2 languages, so these languages should be on easy languages lists! By the way, things such as language difficulty and prettiness etc are very objective facts, and the language difficulty level is determined by the aspect / type of writing system / alphabet used (the Latin alphabet is the easiest and most practical alphabet ever created) and the prettiness / memorability level of most of the words (pretty and distinctive words are naturally easy to learn) and the level of organization and lightness and by how easy or hard the pronunciation is etc, and pretty languages aka languages with mostly pretty words are automatically easy to learn, while the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish are the easiest to learn, and, all Germanic languages and the Celtic languages and the true Latin languages are all easy languages! Polish and Czech are category 4 languages tho not among the hardest ever, Russian and other similar languages using the Cyrillic alphabet are category 5, Navajo is category 6 or 7, Vietnamese is category 7, Thai and Indian languages are category 8 languages, Arabic languages and Korean are all category 9 languages, Japanese and Chinese languages are all category 10 languages with the hardest writing systems, which are not actual alphabets, but characters, that also have the hardest pronunciation which has tones and pitch accents!

[@alenabezouskova1655]

Polish and Icelandic shouldn't be among the hardest, since they are Indo-European languages. Learning them will be relatively intuitive for English speakers.

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

Icelandic is actually a category 1 language, like every other Norse / Germanic language - it’s way easier than I thought it would be at first, even though when I first started learning it I thought it was category 2 due to the vowels with accents, but Icelandic words are way easier to pronounce and to spell than German and French and Spanish words which can be with random accents or with many consonant clusters, because in Norse languages the vowels with accents are in fact different sounds and not actual accents, so Icelandic is easier than German / French / Spanish which are also category 1, and Slovene is also category 1, and Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian are category 2 languages, so these languages should be on easy languages lists! (Polish and Czech are category 4 languages tho not among the hardest ever, but anyways, Proto European is not an Indo language and it is just Proto European as it’s a 100% European language and the first language, which was created from scratch by a dude of germanic origin about ten thousand years ago together with the first writing system ever, which inspired all other languages and writing systems that exist today, either directly or indirectly, but mostly indirectly as newer languages were created by modifying the spelling rules etc of previous languages and by creating many new words, so just because Indian languages come from a language that indirectly came from a language that came from Proto European doesn’t mean anything, and it doesn’t make Proto European an Indo language, so Indo shouldn’t be in its name, as Indian languages were made into completely different languages with different aspect and spelling etc, which are more similar to Arabic languages!)

[@bencebuda4599]

As a Hungarian native speaker I really love that our language is almost always portrayed as some mind-breaking monster.

[@agnezabarutanski1963]

Hungarian is tricky because it's agglutinative, even for us native Slavic speakers who know a thing or two about difficult language. :D Besides different grammar and syntax compared to Indo-European languages, one other thing that makes it additionally difficult is lack of similar stems to hold onto. There is no familiarity (well, except for mačka, suknja and some other words that were loaned from Hungarian into Croatian, but that's about it).

[@csongortunde3468]

Na hallod, én ha magyar nyelvi oktatóvideót nézek itt a yt-on, 10 perc után rendszerint megfájdul a fejem. Ha külföldi lennék, meg se piszkálnám ezt a nyelvet!

[@user_finland]

Hungarian is actually related to finnish

[@thibomeurkens2296]

As someone who’s trying to learn it: trust me, it is (it’s also fucking beautiful though)

[@lippi2171]

I'm a native Hungarian teacher of English and German, I'd say anyone who can learn Hungarian as a foreign language deserves MASSIVE respect, as it's as difficult as it gets. The many nuanced rules, the vowel harmony, the conjugation, and of course the more advanced rules that even Hungarians tend to be unaware of (like the 1st, 2nd and 3rd mozgószabály) make the whole thing close to impossible to master. I have a relative that learnt Hungarian in his 20s, he still speaks with an accent and couldn't get the grammar down perfectly, but he's fluent. Respect for anyone like him lol

[@Jana.bellar]

Me realizing my language is harder then Japanese 👁👄👁

[@Linda_girl2011]

Same 👽

[@Ifuherethen]

@@Jana.bellar by the way what is your language

[@zarakikenpachi6888]

Yeah Arabic is way harder than Japanese

[@candycorntails]

Abric is so hard

[@zarakikenpachi6888]

@@candycorntails as a Arabic native speaker I can say that 100% if you want to master Arabic as a foreigner it's hell because we have countless words and every country speaks differently a little bit but the main Arabic the we call "الفصحى" Is probably one of the biggest languages in the world when it comes to vocabulary and complexity mandrian Chinese is hard too

[@Yr..fav..Rxndom]

I’m fluent in Finnish so I find it very easy and when I saw this I was like 😟

[@eduz_xd]

No 1 is malyalam bruh Malayalam: ചക്ഷു ശ്രേവണ ഗേളസ്ഥമാം ദർദുരം ഭക്ഷണത്തിന് അബേക്ഷികുനത് പോലെ 😂

[@veryharshindiangaming]

Foreigners will have painful in asse learning even 2 languages. Meanwhile Indians: allow us to introduce ourselves. India has many languages.❤

[@Akihiro_YTB]

Nope it’s the croissant language

[@veryharshindiangaming]

@@Akihiro_YTB Indians know at least 4 languages 😆 😎😎😎

[@Imad2Rap]

😅😅😅 hungryrian

[@Nerdynerdo]

​@@veryharshindiangamingIndonesia has more

[@Heuroya]

The difficulty of language learning depends on the similarity between the learner's native language and the language being studied.

[@maeslor]

Yes, that's why "isolated" languages appear here: Japanese and Basque have no living relatives.

[@Heuroya]

@@maeslor Apparently you are unaware of the high similarity between Japanese and Korean. Also, Japan, China, and Taiwan have kanji cultures that make it easy for them to learn each other's languages.

[@BlueBrawler0]

To be fair, he did say "for English speakers".

[@henrygooglekonto-lm4rn]

@@maeslorFinnish is not isolated? But hungarian is also here, so finno-ugric is hard.

[@Alltagundso]

​@@Heuroya Languages can be somewhat similar without having close relatives. Especially when it comes to vocabulary.

[@lwwia]

as a girl with a Chinese mom , I can comfirm that Chinese isn’t hard , the parents are hard 😊

[@GjddJjjt]

lol

[@angelachelsey9984]

I agree, I have to play 1 hour of piano and viola

[@angelachelsey9984]

My Chinese name is also very hard, my teacher said on a test, people are on the first problem and I’m still writing my name. 喻瀚熙 is my Chinese name

[@Teacher-501]

​@@angelachelsey9984convert your name in english please😢😢😢

[@angelachelsey9984]

@@Teacher-501 the 喻 means simile, the 瀚 means vast, and the 熙 was and emperor’s name. According to my mom

[@cellomascha8575]

To everybody learning any of these: i believe in you you can do it (Im also learning one of them and its really hard)

[@Cubeman310]

My dad who knows Hungarian from age of 15 and isn't Hungarian:

[@LeroyUrocyon]

Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Arabic are great languages

[@Im_Not_Bella]

As a hungarian, I can agree

[@ItssJustVivi]

Wait so you say my language is great???

[@LeroyUrocyon]

@@ItssJustVivi Since it is a complex language and is one of the few non-Indo-European languages in Europe

[@ItssJustVivi]

@@LeroyUrocyon Ohh ok

[@LeroyUrocyon]

@@ItssJustVivi Ty!

[@ajachaney37]

Korean was the easiest language I’ve learned in my life 😂

[@wafflesandwich7921]

I want to learn it but there is alfhabet

[@del_destino]

Korean characters are extremely easy to learn, but grammar is too difficult😢

[@Iog]

You can literally learn it in 5 minutes. There's a KZbin video on it.

[@actuallyapomergranate]

yes! I’ve learnt multiple languages and Korean was super easy.

[@ShauryaSingh-dw8qr]

I want to learn korean from scratch. Please tell how can i learn it??

[@MarkyNomad]

No way Icelandic is in the top 10, both languages are in the same family and use the same writing system. Cantonese, Russian, Nahuatl and a bunch of other ones are far more difficult

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

Icelandic is actually a category 1 language, like every other Norse / Germanic language - it’s way easier than I thought it would be at first, even though when I first started learning it I thought it was category 2 due to the vowels with accents, but Icelandic words are way easier to pronounce and to spell than German and French and Spanish words which can be with random accents or with many consonant clusters, because in Norse languages the vowels with accents are in fact different sounds and not actual accents, so Icelandic is easier than German / French / Spanish which are also category 1, and Slovene is also category 1, and Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian are category 2 languages, so these languages should be on easy languages lists!

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

The correct rankings are... Icelandic / Norse / Faroese and Slovene are category 1 languages, and Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian are category 2 languages - they should be on easy languages list, they don’t belong on this list, as do all other Germanic languages! Irish and Scottish Gaelic are category 3 languages, still pretty easy, compared to most others! Czech and Polish are category 4 languages with very heavy spelling! Russian is a category 5 language using a different alphabet! Navajo is a category 6 or category 7 language, definitely not easier than Hungarian! Thai and Vietnamese are category 8 and 7 languages, extremely difficult to learn / memorize / understand or to differentiate between such short words that sound exactly the same, same as Chinese and Korean words! Arabic and Korean are category 9 languages, impossible to read and to understand with short words that sound exactly the same! Japanese is category 9.5 or 10, as its writing is as hard as that of Chinese, honestly, only the pronunciation is slightly less complicated, but it still has pitch accents, which are similar to tones! Cantonese and Mandarin are category 10 languages, as both the characters and the tonal pronunciation are category ten, and they have up to eight tones!

[@tinduregilsson4045]

Its just cuse of the few people that can speak, the few learning matitial and the accent that makes it so hard ( but also funny as an icelander hearing people tryning to peonance : eyafjallajökull)

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

Icelandic has one of the accents that are the easiest to imitate, so the accent (breathy accent with lots of soft H sounds and a breathy tone) should be easy to do even for a beginner or intermediate - the name of the volcano Eyjafjallajökull is pronounced éia + fiatla + ieokiutl with normal i / y sound, tho the eo sound ö sounds more like o in this word, and the u in this word also sounds more like a normal u sound than the regular yu / ü / iu sound, so it sounds more like éya + fyatla + yokutl when said fast, though ppl that don’t know the pronunciation rules and that have never heard the words pronounced before don’t usually know how to say the words! (Learning a language that doesn’t have as many vocab videos on yt and as many resources / videos etc as languages such as English and Dutch and German is not easy, but it’s still doable if one is serious about learning, as there are still some vocab videos with thousands of words on yt and some videos on grammar, at least for Icelandic, plus there are some dictionaries on the Net, and Wkp has many of the declensions and verb conjugations etc, and fortunately there are many songs with lyrics in Icelandic, so one can also learn thousands of extra words from lyrics, and Icelandic is also on G translate and on yt subtitles, so one can watch every video with Icelandic subs, which is a great way of learning new words and seeing previously learnt words again and again, which is how I’ve been learning Icelandic, so one has to work with the material that is available at the moment, which is a good start, and hopefully more and more videos shall be made and more thousands of words shall be added to the dictionaries and to G translate in the near future, and it would also be great if Icelandic and Gothic and Norse and all other Germanic languages and Celtic languages were added to Duolingo etc, and to G translate, the ones that are on G translate yet, and if many yt vocab videos were made for each, so that one can learn all / any of those pretty languages, including the ancient ones and the ones that haven’t been officially recognized as a language yet tho they are different languages with different spelling rules etc!)

[@iorgaizabella6588]

اوه عربي! أحب التحدث باللغة العربية، ولكن من الصعب أن أكتبها

[@dkvvmdkf4064]

طيب كيف كتبت هالتعليق بالعربي اذا؟

[@Ajith1546]

അയിന് ഞങ്ങൾ എന്ത് ചെയ്യണം

[@yumi._.i]

في شي اسمه مترجم 🌜​@@dkvvmdkf4064

[@Totokohi-Y_10]

ياه ، تحتاج ان تتدرب و تستمع و تقرا كثيراً جداً حتى تتقنها بشكل جيداً

[@user-ex9de4ip3u]

As a chinese i think mandarin is quite hard but once you learn mandarin you have access to learn Japanese or Korean (mostly japanese due to its similar writing) i am currently learning mandarin and japanese and in my opinion the hardest goes to arabic, Tamil and Malayalam

[@justsomeonewithdifferentop7101]

You don't think mandarin is the hardest because you are a native Chinese, for foreigners I heard it takes up to 7 years to be fluent in mandarin

[@Virxls]

I think cantonese is hardest

[@user-ex9de4ip3u]

@@Virxls well as a chinese persepctive. Because cantonese is also spoken in China

[@Virxls]

@@user-ex9de4ip3u yess

[@ough.]

@@user-ex9de4ip3u my grandmother watches Chinese tv shows based on pop music, then sometimes I hear them try to sing Cantonese because they want to try it out I can’t speak Cantonese but my mother taught me like some words or smth but then I am fluent listening to what they said lol

[@Tegla69]

As a hungarian: I can confirm that the language is difficult even for native speakers

[@Sz-hi7wj]

Mijért?

[@MrBdoleagle]

it said Hungarian has asian origin. basically, all asian languages are hard to learn 😄

[@niewiemcomamtuwpisacxd]

@@MrBdoleagle hungarian is a uralic language i think

[@erykbaradziej3639]

I agree. Hungarian has a very difficult grammar. I'm a Pole, had been trying to learn for a couple of years but I'm still at a beginner level. Magyar nyelv nagyon nehéz! Polish is difficult too as it has also a difficult grammar although more similar to English and other Indo-European languages.

[@niewiemcomamtuwpisacxd]

@@erykbaradziej3639 yeah, im polish as well and we have some pretty crazy words

[@ZadenZane]

I would definitely not put Mandarin at number one. I know some Japanese and a little bit of Chinese and Japanese is definitely harder. If it has to be a Chinese language then I'd say Hokkien was harder, I've heard it uses nonstandard characters and doesn't have a standard written form. (I don't know how true that is but it's something I've heard.)

[@zingai4015]

mandarin writing system is one of the hardest if not the hardest in the world, especially for english speakers. Its fundmentally different as it uses logograph as it basis. It's what definied this tier list, really

[@branypoo]

Native English speaker here. I’ve seen your easiest languages list and hardest languages list for Eng speakers. I speak more of the languages on the hard list vs. the easy one 😅

[@atlashistorical]

indian people getting ready to type the 478th comment about malayalam

[@googleuser8125]

Malayali spotted

[@mayothesecond]

fr they cant stop blabbering about their opinion

[@mayankdewli1010]

They are not Indians but Malayalis

[@subnormalbark2683]

I think Navajo is the hardest based of there little information online, there’s tones, object shape classes…

[@bshdbbd1375]

Navajo is weapon. Still a weapon!

[@Xthetic_vibe]

Bro forget SANSKRIT!!!!💀💀 As a research of many people in Google it even show that learning Sanskrit is like finding dinosaur 🦖 in this generation As the opinion of mine and many people Sanskrit is the most hardest and powerful language to learn Btw,I'm not Indian I'm from japan.jappanese is very easy to learn just be concentrate and you will learn Japanese easily!💌 日本語は将来学ぶのに最も役立つ言語です、ところで皆さんは何ヶ国語を話せますか 私はヒンディー語、英語、スペイン語、フランス語、日本語を話せます

[@theedinghamfam1533]

Im pretty sure Tamil and malayalam is much harder than Sanskrit (I mean this in no offense it's just my experience as an Indian).

[@Xthetic_vibe]

@@theedinghamfam1533 ahh! Okay!!

[@xxyy9876]

​@@theedinghamfam1533but how ?? since Sanskrit is mothe Tamil and malyalam these languages derived from Sanskrit 😅

[@theedinghamfam1533]

@@xxyy9876 malayalam is mainly derived from tamil and Telugu. Only a bit of malayalam is Sanskrit derived. And there is no proof whether tamil is older or younger than Sanskrit but yeah.

[@alrightymmkay_]

24,000 people in India…..a population of 1.4 BILLION speak Sanskrit. Your point is moooot 🐄🤷🏼‍♀️😅

[@ShortRacoon]

I'm a native slavic speaker so polish being 10 is hilarious

[@Yorforger7176]

Malayalam laughing in a corner 😂😂😂

[@watermelonindianboi]

Lol that’s what I was thinking I’m half mallu and Tamil but mainly Tamil

[@Hoshimi_Chan]

Why no one is adding malayalam!!!! Malayalam needs more support! Lol

[@freefiresquadfriends4787]

Facts

[@looking_for_titan]

malayalam is underappreciated 😭

[@watermelonindianboi]

@@looking_for_titan in my opinion Malayalam is the harder version of Tamil

[@pawelowi7528]

Native Finnish speaker here, almost fluent in English and been learning Japanese for a bit over a year now!

[@namenotfound8186]

Just curious, what is the thing holding you down from being fluent in English?

[@pawelowi7528]

@@namenotfound8186 I'm not confident with speaking, because I get to practice it so rarely. And every time I've encountered an english speaking person here, they've had a really strong accent that was neither British nor American and I couldn't understand them very well.

[@epicmatter3512]

@@pawelowi7528If you want to fully learn English whether that is British or American English, just take a vacation to the UK or US and you’ll pick up on all the slang and accent very quickly. Also if you go learn a fourth language such as French, German, Greek, or Latin it will be much easier. English shares many common words with those four languages and so learning one of them can help with English.

[@pawelowi7528]

@@epicmatter3512 I have no trouble undestanding British or American English. The hardest accents for me to understand are from countries where English is not the primary language (Estonia for example). I've picked up a fair amount of slang by regularly talking to friends online, but it has always been over text, never in a voice chat.

[@KTO_HUBLOT]

I know Finnish too: Yolopuki valio

[@CosmosTrex]

Once you try " Hindi " Then you will change your list 😂

[@HarshSingh-wj3dj]

Imagine if he tries sanskrit 💀

[@guney2811]

ॠॢॣऀ॒

[@CosmosTrex]

@@HarshSingh-wj3dj 🫠

[@user-fx2ob1zh1y]

Whether a language seems easy or difficult depends on our mother tongue. If there are any elements in common with the foreign language we will learn, it will seem easy. That's why we shouldn't be absolute and say in general that there are difficult and easy languages

[@Dark_645]

In 9 years after learning Arabic I still can’t read to good💀 Edit: me Never realized that I had 180 likes edit: Mom im less-famous

[@mido_mayadoo]

Well good luck with understandingأفاستسقيناكموها Wich simply means Didn't we provide you two to drink with it? Like something linke that but i am not sure with it

[@mashroom2927]

السلام عليكم حبيبي شلونك شخبارك شكو ماكو تتعلم شوي شوي هههه ماعتقد حتفتهم شي مني لأني عراقية حتى غوغل محيساعدك 😂

[@hasanthaer66]

​@@mashroom2927 😂😂😂

[@EpikEg]

​@@mashroom2927ههههههه

[@mashroom2927]

@@Mohamed.Atabrour انت من وين لأن كلشي مفتهمت 😭

[@TheWilsonwu1000]

Cantonese: Hello? Korean: I am one of the most sophisticated language, why not the easiest?

[@coinsteelelite]

my godfather has a similar name lol Wilson Woo

[@juditbudai7027]

Hungary: hahaha 😂😂😂

[@extremelynoobgaming4742]

​@Kim 😐

[@extremelynoobgaming4742]

@Kim soka

[@frapepg2024]

Korean has an extremely easy writing system, but it does have some difficult things like particles (I'm learning Korean).

[@minecraftbad69420]

Duolingo : i see this as an absolute win.

[@alexlatyshev2049]

Me Casually speaking Hungarian and Japanese

[@xiao731]

me who is a native chinese and still can’t speak chinese properly after 14 years🗿

[@TalktomeNice-vx8ym]

I'm Arabic. Now I will study Chinese in college iam scared because is hardest language 😢

[@jinnie345]

@@TalktomeNice-vx8ymit is easy as Chinese but hard for other people

[@user-db4zu6xk3q]

​@@jinnie345I don't think Chinese is easy for Chinese, Chinese have to spend 6 years in elementary school, only to learn how to write and read.

[@Never_again_against_anyone]

Sure, the 汉字 take some effort, but 汉语 also has some logic that other languages lack. Any language takes determination, but I find it easier (not easy!) than people claim it to be. Sure, as learning it is only a hobby for me (I like the cultural insight and the the prospect of using it when travelling in the future.) progress is not very fast. But that is something I can live with.

[@aikoosannn]

@@user-db4zu6xk3qso as arabic,6 yrs in elementary,3 yrs in middle,3 yrs in highschool,and college depends.

[@sandrajohn1597]

Where is indian languages like Hindi ,Malayalam, tamil, sanskrit etc.. any English people can't speak malayalam properly if he studied it for so many years

[@nxp2619]

He don't even know about Local Indian Languages buddy, but yeah he should mention Hindi as it is a Known Language and It is Hard AF to Learn

[@gamerkskgodion7355]

जानें कि क्या आप वास्तव में हिंदी भाषा सीखना बहुत आसान है जैसा कि आप देख सकते हैं

[@gamerkskgodion7355]

ஹிந்தியை விட தமிழ் மிகவும் எளிதானது, அதை புரிந்துகொள்வது சற்று கடினம், ஏனென்றால் முன்னும் பின்னும் இடையில் உள்ள வார்த்தையை மாற்றலாம்

[@nothingexists5066]

Kannada

[@sandrajohn1597]

@@nxp2619 but speaking malayalam with proper way is almost not possible for people who don't know it

[@pokeylope6108]

Navajo is definitely 1 2 or 3, actual linguist would agree with me. Japanese/Mandarin and Arabic are the sterotypical "hardest languages". Its Navajo. Beyond its crazy grammar rules, it only has 170k speakers, which makes it even harder to learn and interact with. Currently learning, 日本語 (Nihongo or Japanese) right now. I know English and German as well. Japanese and Mandarin seems to only be super difficult for Latin Language speakers. Personally I have little to no trouble learning Japanese, it just clicks for me.

[@BooksRebound]

I totally agree Navajo should be at the top of the list lol. It seems basically as hard as Ithkuil, which is pretty much impossible to learn lol.

[@Alyssa_M513]

Agreed. XiaomaNYC (guy who learns a bunch of languages) is a native English speaker who is fluent in Mandarin and he said Navajo is the hardest language to learn.

[@FourLionsClips]

mandarin is easy

[@peterc4082]

Weebs find Japanese easily.

[@Orion-lt3zz]

Is it because we have no verbs? I grew up hearing all the adult’s speaking our language. I’m shocked when half Navajos with their PhDs cant understand a speck of what grandma is saying. I just roll my eyes.

[@mauino2516]

I'm studying Japanese and in my opinion the grammar is much more straightforward than English but the kanji makes it so much harder ;-;

[@dianchris1457]

As a Chinese who studying Korean, I can say that there are Chinese, Korean and Japanese have lots in common. Since most of their vocabularies are based on Hanzi. But my friends who speaks English, they feel difficult about the Eastern Asia language. But once you learned and use one of the three languages, you can control all of the three languages! It’s amazing

[@exwuya6443]

@@dianchris1457i am a Chinese who study Japanese. But i can't agree with you. although Those three have something in commons,but the differences especially grammar still exist a lot.for a guy who learn a one of these couldn't let him understand others .but it will help him in study other two.

[@LiyueHuman]

Kanji literally is just Chinese characters, if you learn Chinese Mandarin, kanji would be too easy. As it’s the original form and written form.

[@exwuya6443]

@@LiyueHuman in fact there are many kanjis which made by japanese.such as 峠　畑　桜　歩　辻. japanese made them and they are collected in chinese dictionary by chinese.

[@rudiechinchilla6746]

English acvonodates better with Latin grammar as it is 65%Latin and Greek

[@_Traditional_man]

Arabic consists of 12 million words

[@Epic-tv6lp]

Yeah I’m arabic and the language for me is easy and it’s still hard even for me I’m arab and it’s hard bc of the letters like when I’m at śńñ ôłâ or 1 I must write sun or شمس but I was confused because I didn’t know of it’s a ص or a س at that time

[@_Traditional_man]

@@Epic-tv6lp انا عربي أيضاً . من أي البلاد العربية أنت ؟ لكنتّك الإنجليزية توحي بأنك إنجليزي.

[@nayaezziden3408]

Actually it's 28 letters and it's not that hard

[@nayaezziden3408]

@@Epic-tv6lp Its written with س😅

[@nayaezziden3408]

@@Epic-tv6lp But u said ur Arabian why do u have this icon ? Do u know what does it mean!?

[@tompeled6193]

Out of all the world's 7000+ plus languages, most on this list are probably in the top 100 easiest for English speakers. The actual hardest ones you have not heard of, and that's why they're so hard.

[@siriusplayzyt013]

I am from karnataka I know tamil, kannada, english, telugu, and hindi But Malyalam is the toughest 😅

[@newtanagmukhopadhyay4716]

yea lol my friends are malayali and i know how hard malayali is. i am bengali btw.

[@arrowscharge5844]

are there niggas too?

[@akshaypsanthosh7220]

Malayali pwoli aahda mwone😁

[@jacuesduplessis319]

Not that much hard ... Mandarin, Korean even Cantonese are way tougher than malayalam... I am a Malaysian tamil , I know that

[@ivan_fian]

English : "Please wait a minute" Germany : "Bitte warte eine Minute" France : "s'il vous plait, attendez une minute" Japan : "ちょっと待ってください" Russia : "пожалуйста, подождите минуту" Mandarin : "请等一分钟" Arabic : "من فضلك انتظر دقيقة" Korean : "조금만 기다려주세요" . JAVANESE : "sek" 😅🤣

[@dindin8853]

Jawa susahnya bagian krama, sama krama inggil, udah kaya beda bahasa

[@iwakirikuzen]

In Japanese 「少々お待ちください」 「ちょっと待っててもらえるかい？」 「ちょっと待て」 「ちょっと待ってろ」 「ちょっと待ってくれ」 「ちょっと待っててくれ」 「ちょっと待っていなさい」 「ちょっと待ちなさい」 「少しの間待ってろ」 etc…

[@Ryan_198]

indo kah maz?

[@Oshikyuu_]

HAHAHAH OKE

[@HATSUKI-CHAN_official]

But Chinese actually says“稍等一下”the most.'cause it's more polite

[@Izzleycrafting]

Me being Korean: FLIP YEAH 5TH PLACE LETS GO!

[@37301]

as an alien, this language thing is very difficult

[@Error-gz3pp]

Cantonese in the corner: I think the reason why Korean and Japanese are so hard to learn is because they use a different sentence structure compared to English. Tonal languages are definitely harder to learn for English speakers, though. Cantonese and Mandarin have quite similar sentence structures to English, but because of how complicated the tonal system is, people can end up saying something super offensive in, say, Cantonese, when they actually mean to say something normal.

[@lemon9171]

But as a Bengali it's quite easy since they are both similar

[@CarloParise]

For English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portoguese, Russian etc.etc. speakers.

[@user-mary_panic]

I'm japanese . I think japanese is very hard . I have tow reasons .First. native is cannot perfect Japanese . Second,We must learn by heart a lot of kanji's.

[@eveisevelyn2619]

Yes you are so right I am an Cantonese too

[@jiayah]

its pretty easy to learn tones imo but i can see someone messing it up

[@starkjames5392]

I'm sure Japanese is the hardest ever. ⑴three types of characters ⑵several ways of 漢字 pronunciation ⑶polite forms 敬語 ⑷mischievous Japanese English words ⑸lots of trend words every year (slang among teenagers)

[@vincentandrew4544]

Chinese mandarin is even harder for all that reason

[@sigil6455]

for me as a Pole, Japanese is not super difficult because we have a lot of consonants so pronunciation is also not difficult

[@user-sx2we1xe5q]

No.4 is Japanese gifts for west learners since one could know what it means by the pronunciation in katakana and No.5 is tricky but easy to look up on the Internet.

[@user-sx2we1xe5q]

@@vincentandrew4544 Chinese is hard in the subtlety of meaning in expressions. Meanings or images compacted in short words and disparities in seemingly trivial differences could sometimes be astounding.

[@bambang9897]

Japanese Kanji has more than one reading. and sometime is inconsistent. depend on the words.

[@ImARandomPerson90]

As a polish speaker Polish: Kanada English: Canada Japanesse: カナダ (kanada) 😂😂

[@theguywhoasked2957]

How is Russian and German not here?

[@l2evivel2]

You can try learning Thai. I think you may cry.

[@Sry996]

เค้กไทย

[@l2evivel2]

@@Sry996 What does it mean?

[@cigaie2461]

@@l2evivel2 its mean ‘cake thai’

[@l2evivel2]

@@cigaie2461 If you use Google Translate every single word เค้ก + ไทย will be translated to "cake" + "Thai" and เค้กไทย will be translated to "Thai cake", not Cake Thai. I think it is nothing special and confused what he tried to communicate with me. For Thai grammars, adjectives will always be appended a word we want to use such as "Chinese people" will be คนจีน, คน is a word and จีน is an adjective.

[@cigaie2461]

@@l2evivel2 oh

[@ponta1162]

Cantonese is much harder than Mandarin

[@dark_an3251]

It's true

[@dark_an3251]

@@alberteinstein2027 It depends on what languages ​​you speak. For me, languages ​​like Cantonese, Thai, Vietnamese, for example, are difficult. My mother tongue is Hungarian, so Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, English, German is easier. But it also depends on the person. I understand what your saying. Katakana, Hiragana writing ect. But the pronunciation not so difficult.

[@Ruii27]

@@alberteinstein2027 funny joke

[@hedyng8085]

@@alberteinstein2027 mandarin has 50,000 characters

[@dianaz1706]

@@alberteinstein2027 no mandarin is way harder than Japanese

[@nothinghere412]

I'm an arabian, so I find it easy as I was surrounded by Arabian people and learning it in school.. I also know English and a bit french

[@RenaZTR]

As a Chinese I can confirm I still don’t know how to write 50% of the words

[@zzziyat888]

💀

[@mithuns2740]

Malayalam, number one toughest language in india. Its very difficult to speak(for foreigners). If you have any doubt about it, then, goole it.

[@mithuns2740]

@༼ཆ༽ It says a fuckingdog😄.

[@HI_HIGH_HY]

​​@༼ཆ༽ whos barking ? U mf?

[@jacuesduplessis319]

Attention seekers .. As a Malaysian tamil I can confront you Mandarin is 1000 times harder than malayalam

[@shinichiro2559]

Arabic: i like those odds اسموت

[@icouldjustscream]

Here's me trying to learn some Arabic and Japanese. Apparently, I like to make my life difficult. Might as well throw some Mandarin in there, too.

[@RTM_FT]

مرحباً

[@Katzeleben6028]

well if you are learning Japanese then it means you are learning Kanji, so in a way you are already learning mandarin

[@natasa04tsats15]

wait what kanji in japanese and mandarin are the same? (i am also learning japanese) @@Katzeleben6028

[@GamingWithEric69]

mandrin is sorta hard to learn. (im chinese myself) there's no "sounding out" its all memory. most words are basted off of pictures tho.

[@user-wh4ph2bo1j]

chinese is actually pretty easy if you dont memorize characters as scribbles, its just in need to memorize characters element by element

[@shubunkinnn]

As someone of Basque ethnicity, I think Basque is the hardest on this list. I only know basic words such as hello and mom. Not only does Basque have such complex case declension, meaning a single word can take up over 200 forms, there are also very few resources to learn this language. Compared to most language isolates like Korean and Japanese, Basque has little media out there to help learn. I've wanted to learn the language that my family was forbidden to speak for decades but it's been so hard to find a course. I speak Spanish and English fluently and natively and I've been learning Japanese for 3 years, I think it comes down to the individual but also how many resources and media there are for the language.

[@vpvnsf]

Why is it forbidden to speak Basque?

[@morganestl3710]

@@vpvnsf The same thing happened in France with Basque, Britton, Créole and other regional languages in the early 20th century to force people to learn "proper" French. Now a lot of schools create programs to bring back theses languages and make sure they Don't get lost.

[@Fizzzy_1]

aye my basque brother

[@prakashmandal5]

I was learning Korean And I have done my corse to learn Korean and its not too hard 🇰🇷💜

[@supriyaede3852]

Korean has grammatical similarity to Indian languages as well as alphabet. That could be the reason why it's not that hard for Indians and difficult for English speakers.

[@rosesteel4317]

I think it depends on your native language. In Turkey, there are a lot of people who learn Korean and they say it is not hard. And even some people say "Korean is not hard as English. My Korean is better than my English" because Korean and Turkish are quite similar in grammar. I don't know your native language but as i know Korean and Tamil are close to each other as well.

[@apersonontheinternet8354]

The alphabet, Hangul, is very simple. The grammar seems like a nightmare though. From my pov it seems very similar to Japanese as a language, just with some slightly more complex grammar and a much more simple alphabet / character system.

[@Amberley_channel.]

좋아요, 제가 무슨 말을 하는지 말씀해 주시겠어요?

[@godino9002]

Korean didn't seem hard to me

[@Light_nothing]

Im a English speaker i also speak arabic السلام عليكم يا جماعه رمضان كريم يا جماعة

[@undeniabletruth3550]

I speak english russian german, I learn Japanese and Hungarian now. And i can say Hungarian is more difficult than Japanese! But with dedication everything is possible!

[@user-yw9xg9tv1t]

I am Korean. Hangeul is the easiest and simplest alphabet in the world to learn. However, Korean is a really difficult language. The reason why Hangeul is easy to learn is because it is as simple as ㄱ,ㄴ,ㄷ,ㄹ,ㅁ,ㅂ.... However, unlike English, Korean combines consonants and vowels. And another reason why Korean is difficult is that there are many words that express something that have the same meaning in Korean.

[@jasmine6170]

I’ve been learning Korean for 2 months now and I already know so many words and sentences so I would say that for me its not that hard to learn it.

[@user-yw9xg9tv1t]

@@jasmine6170 When I said that, I mean grammar. This is because English is in the order of subject, verb, and object, but Korean is in order of subject, object, and verb. In addition, there are 8 parts of speech in English and 9 parts of speech in Korean. So it means that studying grammar, not memorizing words, is difficult.

[@TimeForPotterheads]

​@@user-yw9xg9tv1t Is it possible to learn Korean within 3 months? I just want to understand conversations in Korean, don't want to be able to speak fluently!

[@moumitalajbonti181]

​@@jasmine6170but adding particles is hella hard

[@olegshtolc7245]

How is hangeul easier than latin or cyrilic? Im russian i speak both english and korean and latin was so much easier for me to pick up than hangeul

[@HONEST123.]

1. English (speak/read/write) ✅ 2. Hindi ( speak/ read/write) ✅ 3. Malayalam (speak/read/write)✅ 4. Arabic ( read/write) ✅ 5. Korean (read/write / speak) NOT FLUENT BUT STILL GUD✅ 6. Tamil ( understand very well ,speak a little 👌 7. Urdu ( speak✅ understand ✅ HI GUYS THESE ARE THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGES I KNOW ❤😊

[@vishalsharma_0705]

Malayalam is the toughest among them

[@adithyanes8520]

You are from kerala

[@HONEST123.]

@@adithyanes8520 actually I'm not from kerala I'm not from India as well

[@HONEST123.]

@@vishalsharma_0705 yah ur right

[@adithyanes8520]

@@HONEST123. How you learned it?

[@user-ph2ft3np6n]

As a low kid, it's hard to speak in a Navajo.But when you grow up it's like you know every single we're going to never hope

[@clashof6d768]

Most things that has a very different alphabet is hard. Finnish is often said to be the hardest with the same, try epäjärjestelmällisyydestäkäänköhän or wtv it is thats from memory

[@sammy12332]

It's really easy to learn a language if you just grow up with it. My parents came from Japan right after I was born. They didn't know the language themselves so they decided to make me learn it. I grew up from watching japenese TV shows, Cartoons (mostly anime without subtitles) and even listening to japenese Poems, stories, music. I am also pretty experienced with the culture too. Now I am proud to say that I am really fluent in the language. I will be moving to Japan next month and I am really excited to visit the country.

[@Aurora-kx2ef]

Exactly

[@anonymousperson2363]

I have grandparents who speak it, I’m trying to relearn it so I can speak to them, their English isn’t very good. The damn language took me almost a year to get to an intermediate level.

[@moordixx7146]

This applies for every language except arabic. Im a native arabic speaker and its still very hard for me to understand the context of texts and there are some very complicated arabic grammar that not even one who grew up with it can surely understand it

[@tatordgoat4349]

@@anonymousperson2363 how do you learn?

[@anonymousperson2363]

@@tatordgoat4349 from grade 1-5, I learned it through Japanese school, I’m relearning it using a notebook. I learn the alphabet by searching it up, I get the grammar from a pdf or website, and I get the vocabulary from Google Translate, I search the word up for proof.

[@stackofpancakes]

Currently learning Hungarian amongst a bunch of other ones and like, it's not awful, but it's definitely harder than even Russian. The way words interact with each other is completely different, but if you learn some linguistic concepts it becomes easier to grasp.

[@Austro-Hungarian_Mapping]

Am hungarian!

[@gamermapper]

If so Finnish, Turkish, Mongolian, Khanty and Mansi would also be hard for you as they're also all agglutinative and work like Hungarian

[@razvanandreiantonescurogoz4236]

Pro tip : it helps if your country borders Hungary and has a Hungarian minority, so just move your country and/or invite thousands of Hungarians in

[@syndicalistcat3138]

@@razvanandreiantonescurogoz4236 I could tell you a few things but not worth my time...

[@nikocat2008]

You are right, after understand the logic, IT is not so complicated. But yes that is harder than Russian.

[@Cl3ooiv]

im learning mandarin tho 😭

[@submarine_00]

Actually, Korean is not that difficult to learn. My dad worked in Korea for 2 years before I was born and he said he got fluent after 6 months of being there. I tried learning it as well and it took me 2 days to memorize and familiarize their alphabets. Then it took me 3 momths to learn sentence structures and vocabularies (not all vocabs maybe 75% of vocabs). Just practice speaking it and try to like write the sentence as you speak. It’s my technique to learn language better (it works for me). I’m learning faster than I expected compared to when I’m learning Nihongo. Luckily I passed the JLPT N5 (Level 1). It was really hard specially on the listening part. It’s easier to read and say the words than listening to it, very tricky.

[@tempestsonata1102]

Oh dear. I don't want to look too provocative, but my definition of fluency is JLPT 3, or rather 2.

[@submarine_00]

@@tempestsonata1102 I guess you misunderstood my point. I’m not telling my nihongo fluency in here. I am just simply saying that I have learned lots of Korean vocabs, sentence structures and became comfortable in conversing with Korean language after learning it for 3 months compared to when I was still in my N5 level in Nihongo which took me almost 6 months to be confident and comfortable with N5. I took the JLPT test later than my other classmates because it was hard for me to keep up at first given my knowledge in the language is completely 零. But I am in N3 level now so it’s okay.

[@bluetsegaye]

Took me one day to read and write Korean

[@leftblea7692]

no it didn’t

[@shinkaku2625]

So we’re you fluent after that one day?

[@cheetahjammerplaysaj591]

Try learning how to speak it properly then - a local Korean guy

[@callmeyourmajesty09]

@@leftblea7692 mostly likely she meant Hangul, the Korean alphabet. It's pretty easy, so it's not surprising really

[@RU-xd3ym]

The reverse is also true. In my opinion as a Japanese, the reason why CJK people struggle to speak English well is that English is one of the most difficult languages for us.

[@MrBdoleagle]

😄 good one

[@nose665]

In fact, English is a fairly easy foreign language for Chinese and Koreans. Because they've been exposed a lot since they were young.

[@RU-xd3ym]

I see your point, but they don’t have as strong of a command of the English language as Europeans, despite having been exposed to it from a young age, indicating that English is NOT as easy for them to learn.

[@patrick4584]

I really like your Australian accent and it's interesting to know that Mandarin Chinese is the hardest language to learn for English speakers. 🇨🇳

[@lemonxofcc]

I'm polish and I feel bad for foreigners that want to learn our language, because it's sometimes even hard for me (and other polish people) 😭😭

[@Alltagundso]

I just write: " Nie mam rowera." How popular became that?? 😂😂😂

[@lemonxofcc]

good job!! ✨✨

[@armyfan3268]

As someone who is currently learning Arabic with no previous exposure to the language it is actually pretty easy. I think it all just depends on the teacher you get

[@user-ne2nn5ql1w]

hello iam Arabic i can help u if u wante🖤

[@enmusimpcuzyeah]

Me: But I’m teaching myself👁👄👁

[@mobinmirshekari4884]

For me knowing Persian is helpful, it's the same writing, lots of common vocabulary. Only difference is Arabic is semitic and Persian is Indo-European so the grammar is very dissimilar.

[@musicjunkie3174]

i also am learning arabic🤍all the best to you fam

[@yukinakiu739]

​@@mobinmirshekari4884 Lmk do you know Persian language ?

[@user-fs4qy8ks4u]

the hardest part of japanese is kanji, because japanese kanji is different from chinese hanzi. most of japanese kanji has 2 or 3 even more pronunciation. 日 : ni 日 : nichi 日 : hi, bi, pi 日 : jitsu 日 : ka 日 : tachi 日 nichi + 記 ki = 日記 nikki 日 nichi + 本 hon = 日本 nippon 日 nichi + 清 sin = 日清 nissin 日 nichi + 中 chuu = 日中 nicchuu 日 nichi + 程 tei = 日程 nittei

[@katato]

yeah definitely, and especially with tonal words that depend on the partical like はな which can mean nose or flower based on the tone of the following partical が

[@Misoshiruuuu]

We also have “生”🤦‍♀️ I think it has more than 150…?

[@katato]

@@Misoshiruuuu 本当ね？！

[@loganwong3012]

Japanese kanzi? it's Chinese Hanzi. Kan/Han = Chinese main nation

[@user-fs4qy8ks4u]

@@loganwong3012 that's why I called it "Kanji" not "Hanzi" *漢字* Mandarin : Hanzi Japanese : Kanji Korean : Hanja Vietnamese : Han Tu

[@iaangallery5890]

I'm indonesian, conversation with mandarin is easy 😂 but hard while write the alphabet... 🙃

[@DocteurInfierno]

Its depend of your native language. For japanese people, for example, learning corean is not so difficult

[@ru40342]

Mandarin is alot easier than other variations of Chinese, especially Cantonese. Even Mandarin speakers struggle to speak Cantonese fluently.

[@wilsonchan5711]

Then you have like Wenzhou dialect which is probably near impossible 😂

[@zhangsian519]

中国起码50种方言，南方的方言都是像外语一样

[@wilsonchan5711]

@@zhangsian519 对啊。 真是听不懂南方方言。😭😭😭

[@369tayaholic5]

also Hokkien(Minnan) a very complex one

[@GONCAXSULTANA]

Arabic was the easiest for me I am not a native Arabic speaker but Arabic is the Quranic language This,learnt it faster from childhood

[@Sandrone5225]

I'm also a Muslim, and I did quit reading Quran for a long time so I forgot how to read Arabic, but it's definitely not easy💀. Remember when we had to learn all the pronunciations before actually reading the Quran? We had to literally learn 100+ letters. It takes months. My siblings and friends had a hard time pronouncing "Quaf"..

[@AbodMNS]

quran reading is even hard for arabic native speakers@@Sandrone5225

[@BrodyBoy846]

I am personally trying to learn Japanese so I agree with what this man said.

[@TheLonelyMoon]

as a korean with hsk lvl 6 learning japanese, i can confirm that this is a video

[@_creqmpuff]

I am from Poland but I am learning Indonesian !! / Saya dari Poland (but) aku (learning) Indonesian !! . The reason I put the words in brackets was bc I don’t know them yet and I use Duolingo ! 😊❤

[@thenice_baconyt5185]

انا أستطيع التحدث بالعربية بعد سنوات أخيرا! I can speak Arabic after years finally!!

[@yousefstyle]

كيفك شو بتعمل بحياتك

[@abooda-b2597]

تهانينا🥳🎉

[@sfaalzbd710]

I think... ...Arabic is the hardest language😅🇮🇶

[@jonathanlange1339]

Not grammatically. And the dialects are much easier than standard arabic.

[@ayofzi8895]

grammatically its the hardest @@jonathanlange1339

[@Dnn09]

What's about 🇨🇿 Czech

[@Palestine_3763]

Nah

[@NBCFC1]

just because you're arabic

[@Lilzzzzzzz15]

Duo lingo is taking notes rn 😂

[@spawncampe]

I'm half Korean so luckily the grammar and phrases comes naturally to me, but vocab and the many conjugations still confuse me sometimes. But when I attempt to learn Japanese, English grammar is completely backwards so I gotta translate the phrases in my head to Korean, then think of the Japanese equivalent(since those grammars are similar)

[@damianstrzyzewski3332]

My language is hardest.. Yes 🇵🇱

[@andrasszabo4959]

Polandd Im Hungarian🇭🇺

[@czlowiek713]

powinno chyba być na 4/5 miejscu

[@Cuisator321]

Check on google

[@zjiedhbshej]

Me who learn japanese and korean from watching the anime and kdrama. Me realized my language is the hardest... 🐰

[@nitaseely6830]

what's your LANGUAGE tho

[@bharatmatakayoda]

Common western L dude stop wasting your time they are not spoken in 2 countries

[@Palestine_3763]

Nah 😂

[@mani62663]

"top 10 Hardest languages in the world' Saksakti:oh really

[@DevamShahMbbs]

Duolingo : It's a cup of tea

[@dark_an3251]

Hungarian grammar is so hard. I'm from Hungary and I'm lerning Chinese Mandarin.

[@antekjestem380]

Poland grammar is that hard that some Polish peoples can't speak or write correctly 😂

[@GestressteKatze]

i'm from germany and learning Mandarin as well :D so tough but the grammar is easy

[@dark_an3251]

@@GestressteKatze That's nice!😄

[@61kg61]

Én pedig japánul probálok tanulni

[@dark_an3251]

@@61kg61 Az nekem nehezebb. Kitartást. Susu😁

[@flashgordon6510]

I think Japanese is hard because you have to learn kanji (which is borrowed from Chinese), but there really aren't any difficult sounds in it, unlike in Mandarin, for instance, which I find super hard. I've been studying Japanese for almost a year now and love it.

[@klopkerna3562]

The kanji have a lot of reading and that's what make them complicated

[@Al-waqwaq]

For example… 生(iki,nama,sei,ki,syou,zei,jyou,etc….)

[@gekiatsufantasticeveryday]

日本人からの問題です。 あなたはこの文を正しく読めますか？ (もちろん日本人は全員読めます) 3月1日は日曜日で祝日、晴れの日でした

[@user-ut8se8lh4t]

日本語勉強頑張ってー！❤

[@Nostfn]

I get a aneurysm just by hearing a fluent Hebrew speaker, I swear there not even saying words 😭

[@Killerwhale317]

Australian accent sounds like a fancy American Southern accent

[@phrax]

When you the video before this was easiest languages to learn and most of those are it. I don’t know what to believe anymore 😭😭

[@yummydragon8533]

he isnt a language learner he has no clue what he’s talking about