Top 10 Hardest LANGUAGES to Learn

[@yukinoneno4079]

Japanese is simply easy. You only need a couple sentences to learn basic conversation. Kanji is hard yes. but the other 2 are quite easy.

[@yukinoneno4079]

***** I can see how the sentence structure is hard at first but honestly it could take a year before your really fluent more than other langs that take years to master.

[@bellacieen1122]

Ikr like Japanese for example is really easy.I've been watching anime and i learned more words than learning French for 3 years.A trick for learning a language is just watching shows in that language and listening it every day.At least that's how i learned English and also some words in Korean.

[@yukinoneno4079]

Bella Cieen Exactly though anime is not a prime source. dramas and other irl shows are better for Japanese since anime is somewhat not putting a realistic example. But you can still learn something from it.

[@cityboytv1478]

Yukino Neno hahaha suffer in the grammar part....

[@Mattropolis97]

Yukino Neno Here's a fun fact: every native speaker of languages (other than English) thinks their language is easy. You're Japanese, so of course you think that it's easy. I consider-- 今日はいい天気ですね！ ええ、天気予報によると、今週は毎日いいお天気でしょう。 じゃあ、公園に行かなければいけません！ そうですね、傘を持って来なくてもいいです。 --to be "basic conversation" material. Talking about medical interventions or politics would be advanced. Much of the grammar in these sentences took a long time to learn though, and I don't even know if it's all 自然. You can't just learn every important piece of grammar for basic conversation in a day.

[@oRange_brOwn]

In Hungarian= A követ követ követ. In English= The envoy is following a stone.

[@ahorse4953]

wtf

[@balintbartok1758]

Hungarian logic, my friend. Hungarian logic.

[@Roope00]

No, Finno-ugric logic.

[@czapkoalex2617]

Szia! :D

[@Pyovali]

Keksin keksijä keksi keksin keksittyään keksin keksin keksijä keksi keksineensä keksin keksityksi

[@moji8731]

I'm currently learning Korean and I would say that the Korean alphabet is one of the EASIEST to learn! The honorifics aren't that difficult to get your head round once you've learnt them.

[@fang8459]

몰리원숭이 yh. it's supposed to be easy, that's why the signs were invented. So that everybody can learn it rly quick. btw where are you from?

[@skarskar5058]

Maybe you're a KPOP fan I think ..

[@moji8731]

I'm from England but I'm learning korean

[@rosemaryclinton1879]

yeah, right! I only struggle with ㄹ...

[@skarskar5058]

That R and L wkwkwkwkwk

[@tamuna772]

The Georgian Language is undoubtedly among the 10 most difficult languages to learn, but you showed our first alphabet which is quite rarely used already. You had to show our newer alphabet, dated with the 11th century, which is used in everyday life.

[@DewyPeters96]

სკოლაში სწავლობთ ძველ ანბანებს საქართველოში? დედამ მასწავლა ქართული საზღვარგარეთ (ბავშვობაში), ისეგი მხოლოდ თანამედროვე ვიცი. ძველი ქართული მაინტერესებს და ვეფხვის ტყაოსანი მინდა წავიკიკითხო :)

[@Sodapop1317]

Uh, the Korean writing system is the easiest in the world. You can learn it in 15 minutes. And Japanese isn't that hard. What a BS list.

[@yong2peaceful]

Yeah I agree the writing system for both Japanese and Korean was not that hard, while the really difficult and tricky part for both language was the grammar usage, honorific statement, etc. But that's just my thought for both languages..

[@Sodapop1317]

Piktoll Why though?

[@Bozewani]

我说普通话انا اتكلام عربية

[@Bozewani]

the Arabic alphabet is also very easy

[@supassara10]

yeah, it's pretty to learn

[@sanmiya117]

you may feel japanese easy when you are studying it at your home country. but after you go to japan, you will understand that you knew almost nothing about japanese. especially when you go to Osaka.

[@Mattropolis97]

san miya Right exactly. All these idiots saying it's easy have never been graded on it

[@reliable7242]

And Osaka is where i wanted to go... Thanks for ruining my vacation.

[@Mattropolis97]

san miya Also hardly any Americans can understand 敬語

[@aurelienana178]

it's even worse in china, you can be fluent in mandarin and not understand anyone in china because you don't understand any of the accents / dialects

[@lifeform106]

what are you talking about Japanese people from Osaka are nice and you just haven't studied that much

[@st_li8581]

It took me 2 days to learn the korean writing system.. it's actually extremely easy to understand

[@zakarian3892]

St_Li it took me 2-3 days to learn cyrillic alphabet it's easy too

[@thesucker9632]

Zakaria N lol it took me an hour to learn the cyrillic alphabet and another 30 mins to learn the greek one, since about half of the letters r the same as english

[@yoosun1028]

bUt numbers and numbering things are hard and even though i am korean i think it’s hard ;-; for example if you say five people you say 다섯명 and not 오명 and if you say five animals instead of 명 its 마리 , and its not 오마리 but 다섯마리

[@biekery]

I think languages difficulty largely depends on the languages you already know/familiar with. For example, I speak Vietnamese, that makes learning Chinese and Korean/Japanese easier than someone who only speaks, say German. I disagree with their previous "10 easiest languages" list because those are completely unfamiliar to me, but someone living in EU might find it easier Nevertheless, I think Vietnamese is dead easy and besides the characters, Chinese is easy too. Our grammar is very similar is super simple: no tenses or verb conjugations!! Once you learnt the Vietnamese alphabet, you can pronounce EVERYTHING just by reading, there's no guessing or exceptions like in English. I tried learning French before and oh man 😭😭

[@droptherapy2085]

I am learnin Czech, and it also is pretty easy to guess how to pronounce a word.

[@Mattropolis97]

You speak English, so all of the languages on the easy list would without a doubt be easier for you than Japanese or Korean... If you were to learn any of the 5 Romance languages, or the Germanic ones listed, 50% of the new vocabulary words you learn would sound like English Cognates Romance Example: Portuguese “Supermercado” sounds and looks almost exactly like Supermarket Germanic Example: German “Schwimmen” looks and sounds like it’s translation “swimming”. I currently live in Japan and I have never heard of any cognates from Vietnamese unless it’s food names...but those are loan words, not cognates

[@chrisbean]

You're right, it is about how far or near your mother tongue is from the target language.

[@yyzz2960]

So true, I grow up bilingual Chinese (Mandarin and Hokkien) and Australian English (did drama in school so accent is more British than Aussie though) when I was learning Japanese in school I almost died of lack of brain cells cause I got the kanji characters confused with Chinese and sound was hard too cause it’s familiar but not the same, hence easily confused as well. Greek was a joke as well, for two years struggled with alphabet so much, Latin was hard at first but once you get the grammar it’s a breeze and cause I did Latin when I was doing Italian and French I get conjugation on the get go but my fds who didn’t Latin and speak only English struggled significantly with French/ Italian because the amount of conjugations and different genders and liaisons, especially with French with all the rules and a lot of exceptions. So I think language difficulties are very relative and highly dependent on individuals prior experience and interests in a language. Like my brother who can speak and understand Chinese very well, but can’t read or write because his Chinese school teacher didn’t get along with him at all so he shut it out and didn’t learn very well at all. So yeah depends on who you talk to, people’s going to have very different answers.

[@xiiv.emilia]

exactly what i was thinking! i speak bulgarian and we use the cyrillic alphabet just like they do in the russian language so i'd be way more comfortable learning russian than an english person would be!

[@e.l.a5455]

huh pretty sure japanese and korean are waaay easier than cantonese or arabic even

[@adamsandle4569]

ikr

[@maximillianjames228]

It's the language of weeaboos

[@butterbutterflyfly]

no it's the language of japanese people and everyone has the right to learn that, it's great if you learn a new language.

[@MKwildout]

Japanese is actually harder than Chinese, but I've heard that Korean is pretty easy.

[@timmychan6282]

Cantonese is the hardest, since the oral language is completely different to the written language! AND most Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong can speak english (to a limited level). They will often talk with you in English instead of Cantonese. You have little to no chance to learn beginner Cantonese from the locals

[@annahed9369]

As a native Finnish person I want to say that Finnish is hard to learn. The pronounciation is pretty hard. Regular English speaking person has problems pronouncing the letter 'ä' and 'ö' which are used a lot in our language. There are so many inflected forms for every word that it's hard to remember. For example: talo(nominative)house, talon(genitive)of a house/house's, talo/talon(accusative)house, taloa(partitive)house(as an object), talossa(inessive)in a house, talosta(elative)from a house, taloon(illative)to a house, talolla(adessive)at a house(could also mean with a house if it wasn't adessive form), talolta(ablative)from a house, talolle(allative)to a house, and so on... So basically there's a lot to learn and even Finnish people themselves don't use the correct forms because the spoken languge sounds kind of different well... a lot of the words are shortened like 'minä' -> 'mä' meaning 'I' and 'viisikymmentäviisi' -> 'viiskytviis' meaning 'fifty-five'. Hopefully I wrote everything right :D

[@ashbailey6874]

C'mon Japanese isn't that bad. It makes more sense than English at least.

[@levistokes3960]

it isnt bad pronounciation wise, but it takes a little bit of getting used to at first. Its just the context thing that gets me and the different verb endings. Im not an expert at all but im currently trying to learn it.

[@魔法-s4r]

It makes sense when you get it, but there are some concepts that are difficult to wrap your head around. At least that's my experience as a native Dutch speaker and near fluent English speaker.

[@joelniv6718]

The hard thing is that it's insanely different, these people are so different and it's hard to understand their concepts and way of thinking, but I can't tell, I've never studied it

[@potpourri565]

Japanese isnt that bad, but it definitely isnt more clear than English imo

[@sebastianmalvaroza7535]

@Lars Sørensen It really depends on your native language. To someone Asian or such, Japanese seems to make more sense, simply because of the grammar structure and vocab.

[@drewrichardson9944]

I disagree with this order. .. it seems that the "harder "languages must have different writing systems, which is incorrect, it just makes them more unique. I'm a linguist of 5 languages, all of which come from three language families so I think I can make a meaningful comment. I agree that Korean is very challenging , but the video didn't mention how complex the verb conjugations can be, which compared to Japanese , Mandarin and Cantonese is important to note.. Also, he didn't mention the 15 noun cases in Finnish plus the 12 adverbial case(used mostly in set expressions), which combined make 27 cases. In addition, there are many problems the learner faces with consonant gradation and the formation of stems ,which makes Finnish more difficult than this video even makes out. I also think that Georgian should be classified as more difficult than this video portrays ... this is because the consonant clusters are almost impossible for foreigners to pronounce, even from a physiological perspective and in particular, the glottal stops are nightmarish.

[@lizisamkharadze3561]

As a native Georgian speaker i can say that Georgian grammar is extremely hard to learn especially for foreigners.. Of course it's easy to speak for Georgians but what we learn from Georgian grammar books that's really hard.

[@x_frost635]

"Japanese (Study time: Over 2,200 hours) or 1 average anime show" -Weaboos-

[@theeevee8302]

average reptilian lol

[@kekko4710]

I'm learning Japanese

[@kekko4710]

Yaas

[@emma_cor7815]

Yess

[@Shirokroete]

A youtuber named Xidnaf made a video about Korean and he explained that the written language is actually really easy. I suggest you check it out to know what I'm talking about.

[@tizianodematteis7071]

Xidnaf, actually, is very educated on the topic and I highly suggest to watch his channel if you are interested in this field. Too bad his videos do come out more often.

[@candicehoneycutt4318]

edi No, it's not. It's one of the easiest alphabets to learn. You can pick it up in like a day, but like Lina said, the spoken language is a hot mess.

[@puttputt524]

It's to my understanding that Korean is a relatively modern language, ie it's not old as hell like mandarin is. My Korean friends tell me it is very efficient in it's own way.

[@yolson2376]

Shirokröte I remember watching Xidnaf's video and I educated myself about Korean a little bit after that and from my experience korean writing isn't as easy as it may seem like, mainly beacuse of certain letter combinations which sound completely the same so you end up learning how to write certain words by heart (just like in english), and there are also some rules and exceptions where sounds change and so on and so forth. Korean writing used to be phonetic but as time passed it became more and more a mess, but still nowhere near the complexity of Japanese or Chinese :)

[@俞申骏]

puttputt524 well, surprisingly that mandarin is actually the result of westernising which is just about 100 years old. The origin of mandarin is using Chinese character while adopting some Japanese word and French grammar.(as the group of persons who started westernising studied in France and Japan) Ancient Chinese is the one got thousands year of history. Don't mess them up.

[@inspiritedpotatoarmy645]

are you joking? korean is harder than arabic? LOL

[@zainjannoud]

inspirited potato army ikr !! I'm a native and I even struggle at it

[@e.mohamed2437]

@@zainjannoud lol im also native arabic and there are tons of arabic words that i still don't know their meanings and tons of grammar rules that are still like rocket science to me xD

[@issabeyatl6781]

inspirited potato army nope 👎 Arabic is way harder than Korean and not of what you think

[@issabeyatl6781]

Thanh Tsunami ooo ok 😂😂😂 my bad bruh I was not in my mind lol 😂

[@lilscylerr1819]

Arabic is very Hard language ......iam Arabic

[@doutorgori327]

Reading Korean is not that hard. I mastered Hangul in just two afternoons with studying materials I found online. Now, speaking and understanding it is a lot more difficult.

[@Mattropolis97]

Frank Bowd Very well put. I made the mistake of learning kanji the wrong way until I started taking classes and just learned words with them. It also helps that I started taking Chinese classes too

[@CharlesWetzel]

+Doutor Gori Yep, just learn the alphabet (two afternoons), then spend a couple thousand afternoons on the actual language itself! That should bring you up to business level, but not fluency (elementary school children will still understand most daily conversations better than you).

[@idavaabenladefoged7290]

Korean? Really? I see that it is different when it comes to word order and the use of politeness levels and all the honorifics suffixes you need to learn - yes, that is indeed challenging. But hangul!? That is the easiest writing system out there! It takes literally minutes for you to learn and with a bit of effort you'll memorize it within a few days.

[@brukernavn3409]

Add a couple of days more, and you can type it fairly well on your keyboard.

[@rosegoldrach]

Ida Vaaben Ladefoged I learned the hangul alphabet in one night its so easy! The hard part is the words, i just need to figure out the best study method that will be the most beneficial to my learning style :)))

[@Mattropolis97]

Ida Vaaben Ladefoged The written language has little to do with why Korean is a category 5. You can know a language without knowing how to read it. That's how life was for humans until quite recently in terms of ancient history. Remember, the writing system of a language is not the actual language---It's simply a vessel used to transport it. Therefore the learnability of the alphabet shouldn't and doesn't impact how many hours it takes to learn the language (with exceptions being Chinese and Japanese, but Japanese is worse) When learning Chinese in school, you learn characters as you go through the grammar lessons, so it's really easy to keep up with. In Japanese however, you stop to practice writing kanji in addition to learning your regular lessons. All programs do this irrelevant character learning because they try to slowly build your basic character knowledge even though you're well past the words those characters represent in terms of level

[@Mattropolis97]

Galaxy Rach Best method: take a class. I'm in Korean 101 right now and it's sooo easy when you have a nice planned-out curriculum and a teacher to force you to practice. It's the fastest way. It's expensive to take classes, I know, but as someone who's experimented with language learning strategies for 6 years, I've gotten the best results learning in school.

[@AN-qw7ye]

They call me Polyglot Jones chinese you need to remember every single word of the pronunciation and the meaning... but japanese you just need to learn kanji then basically you can read already but chinese not!

[@tatutanskanen9687]

You should've used the example Kuusi palaa in finnish which can mean: Six peaces Six are coming back The number six is on fire Your spruce is on fire Spruce is on fire Your moon is on fire Your moon is coming back Your spruce is coming back Spruce is coming back

[@weasel2906]

Tatu Tanskanen I like you

[@DrunkenUFOPilot]

"peaces" = peaches? pieces?

[@weasel2906]

Daren Wilson If you believe hard enough, it's a finnish word.

[@princekrazie]

NUMBER SIX IS ON FIRE

[@princekrazie]

QUICK CALL THE FIREMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@loverofmusic3794]

like I am here studying Japanese, Korean and Mandarin at once lolz

[@Mattropolis97]

Olivia Brown Me too, I'm taking them all in college

[@franzamora7943]

Is v up profile pic

[@Goooogle]

How is it going? Don't you get confused with them? How many hours do you invest a day?

[@itsjustme7955]

Olivia Brown I'm only studying Japanese...

[@allonisrowan2800]

Saaaame

[@Νοναμε-ρ9τ]

Logic: if the alphabet isn't latin, then it must be hard

[@ChlorineHeart]

This is from the point of view of an native English speaker, who will find having to learn a whole new writing system than not doing so

[@Mattropolis97]

Νοναμε Right, or the other way around. Chinese is the easiest language in the world but it has a hard writing system. Each Japanese verb has over 50 conjugations and Korean verbs have double that amount at over 100 conjugations. (Let me know if you want further evidence, I'll gladly explain) So learning 2000 characters is essentially the same as learning 20 verbs in Korean. The only difference is the conjugations reflect the spoken language and the characters don't, thus making Chinese easier *as a language*

[@Νοναμε-ρ9τ]

They call me Polyglot Jones I wouldn't say Chinese is that easy, not counting the characters. I'm still working on the pronounciation since it's very different from english pronunciation. I don't feel like the character's are that hard to remember by themselves, there are just so many of them

[@Mattropolis97]

Νοναμε Well are you learning at home or in a class? Because if you're learning by yourself your pronunciation will never be right. I tried learning it by myself before taking it in college. It was only after I started learning at school that I realized those voice recordings on apps and software are complete garbage. No one talks like them Any statistic i give as far as how easy a language is *always* refers to classroom study, never self study. For example, Japanese is easier than Russian if you're learning it at home simply because the pronunciation is straightforward, but Russian takes less hours to master in the classroom In my opinion, a language's ease of pronunciation is plays the biggest role in how difficult it is to self-study. If you don't form your internal voice correctly, you'll struggle much more than usual, thus giving the illusion that it's harder

[@Mattropolis97]

Νοναμε and as for the characters...hang in there. In a way, it's a lot like learning English spelling. Hardly ANY words in English are actually pronounced according to their spelling. Learning an English word is almost like learning an individual Chinese character. The word "drought" uses 7 letters to represent just 1 syllable. You could still say "but other words have the 'ought' spelling too!" And to that, I say look at the Chinese character 想. It has 木, 目, and 心 in it. Each grouping of letters makes a distinct sound. The English language can make up to 5000 sounds, and we only have 26 letters to represent them. In the long run, learning a language like Chinese allows you to get ahead in vocabulary while people learning other languages have to deal with conjugations which ultimately slows their path to fluency. That's why I can survive in China after only 4 semesters of Chinese. I know (probably) 1200-1500 characters

[@anapopa4441]

Ummm, learning Japanese is easy-peasy-japaneesy, in fact, Chinese is waaay harder.

[@Mharriscreations]

I find I'm somewhere in-between. I think that Chinese is a little easier to learn if you're a native English speaker, just because the sentence structure is much closer to English than Japanese, and also there are quite a few idioms that translate directly. I think in the pronunciation department, Japanese is much easier, but the writing system is way harder, and learning the proper context for each word is more difficult. Though there are differing words for different contexts in Mandarin, it much more closely parallels English...And also, there's the fact that most Chinese use really informal speech for every day life. That being said, I think there are people who just get things easier, like you obviously get Japanese better, but all in all, I think for the majority of people, Mandarin would be easier. (I personally have studied both, and while I find that I picked up Japanese vocabulary quicker, all in all Chinese has been easier...But that's also do to the fact that I live in China, so I'm kind of forced to learn it.)

[@osmarrojas5081]

That is what I think. You can start out by learning hiragana and katakana and then learn kanji. But in Chinese/ Mandarin/ Cantonese... where the f*** do I start.

[@Mharriscreations]

It depends on if you're an audio or a visual learner. If you're a visual learner, start with learning Pinyin (the romanized spelling of the words) then the Hanzi. It's the exact same as the Kanji, and often with the same meanings, just different pronunciation. Next, afterwords you can work on the speaking. Just use Mandarin. It's true that there are a lot of dialects and languages in China, but you can use it most anywhere in China, and other places like Malaysia and Singapore too.

[@highTideWaves]

weeeellllll Chinese has many dialects, I speak 2 of them fluently

[@Mharriscreations]

Rachel Wong That's true. There are tons of dialects in China...Not to mention minority languages like Tibetan, Salar, Tu, Uighar... I only speak Mandarin, and a few phrases in the Qinghai dialect. But hopefully, the more I study the better I'll get at both.

[@Lacika-fy8nx]

Magyarok like :D

[@an8202]

The comments are so demotivating

[@bonnieaprillollipoptrigger6516]

Netune Where are you from? Depressed?😂

[@anamira2908]

hahahaha

[@jadorealissawhite-gluz5706]

They shouldn't be. They should excite more to take the challenge of learning a difficult language

[@ZeRoiZeR]

For Korean, Japanese is the easiest language to learn. Translate the words and put it in same order, that's it. Also some words are silmilar if it is formed by Chinese charactor.

[@blackfalcondown580]

If I had the time, I'd learn every language I could.

[@Xenro66]

+Mø Nälayé "only". Hmm, okay. I have extreme difficulties learning a second language, and so do a lot of people... So be grateful, haha.

[@EvaMobile8]

Mø Nälayé It is really impressive that you taught yourself English. I have been taking Latin classes for 4 years, and I still have difficulties with it. :p

[@yeetboi1984real]

Vete a la mierda.

[@nohaxmeh576]

"And on that day, as the prophet TopTenz declared Japanese to be the hardest language to learn. Many a weeabo gnashed their teeth in despair. For they could not speak like their favorite animu characters." -The Book of Internet 9:38 I was bored okay?

[@joemom2671]

+NoHaxMeh I love you.

[@grixern5092]

10: okay 9: okay 8: again? 7: wait is this whole top 10 1100? 6: WTF 5: this next one better be way more than 1100 4: 1100 + 1100 = 2200. Why is this on the same thing? 3: oh. Okay. 2200. 2: 2200. I bet 2200 plus is next! 1: yep. Oh no? So unique. 2200 and "over"!!!!111!!11

[@fireroastergames2518]

Carl Kirchhoff thats what i thought

[@weo7607]

quick matz

[@tanyo-on2871]

こんにちは😃 日本語も覚えると面白いですよ👍

[@honeydhydra3925]

😂

[@ameliabrittain158]

I am taking Japanese and TBH it's pretty easy to pronounce and the sentence structure is easy to understand, and the basic two alphabets are easy to read, it's just takes a lot of memorizing kanji. It's the same with Mandarin or Cantonese.

[@metatronyt]

No, Japanese is a lot harder to read, because of the multiple possible readings of the kanji. That almost never happens with Chinese hanzi.

[@iannordin5250]

yeah, spoken japanese and it's simplified script are actually pretty damn easy to understand, especially since words tend to sound distinct from one another in a sentence. when people talk about why japanese is hard, they're really referring to the clusterfuck of different writing systems they use, and the memorization of Kanji, hell, most Japanese aren't proficient in Kanji and just use simplified forms

[@puttputt524]

When you say Japanese and mandarin are easy to pronounce, in willing to bet that native speakers could listen to you and complain. I'm Chinese American, and while my pronunciation in mandarin is spot on, I have a hint of American in my accent. Next month when I go to visit my grandpa, I will bet that some guy off the street will tell me I sound like dog shit. Somehow, women are infinitely more polite to me and will say I speak wonderfully though...

[@dogedoge4062]

+Metatron although it maybe no that multiple like japanese kanji,most chinese hanzi have multiple possible readings,too.

[@metatronyt]

doge doge Not true, very few hanzi have multiple reading in Mandarin, whereas ALL Japanese kanji have multiple readings. Whenever I try to read Mandarin I get it right 95% of times, Japanese? You either know it before hand which of the multiple pronunciation to use or you stand a 50% chance in the best of cases, 10% chance in worst scenarios, and some other times it's just impossible to read unless you know it even for natives.

[@tarcal87]

Original Mongolian looked so beautiful. I can't imagine the joy I'd have to have to write like that - vertical, all spaced out, symmetrical. Just beautiful

[@Ray-eg8ub]

you know noting

[@Fetrovsky]

The korean script is one of the simplest and easiest to learn in the entire world.

[@0x636f6d70696c65]

Daniel Jesús Valencia Sánchez true.

[@TNTnor]

The language itself however..............

[@loveislove2359]

Daniel Jesús Valencia Sánchez the spoken language is much harder though.

[@ZhangtheGreat]

It's easy if you understand another phonetic script, since Korean writing is phonetic. However, if coming from an alphabetical script where words aren't always written as they sound (e.g. English), it could provide a bigger challenge. What I find most difficult about basic Korean are the "in-between" sounds that don't exist in English (e.g. Korean has a sound that's in between the English "b" and "p"; English speakers can easily mispronounce this as a soft "b" or a soft "p.")

[@Fetrovsky]

That makes sense.

[@vanna.5745]

Sees number 2 Omg I'm so happy I chose to learn Japanese instead of Korean Sees number 1 ............no

[@daisy0243]

what about Polish? even Poles have problems with it

[@daisy0243]

In Polish? 😁

[@daisy0243]

Polish tongue twister: Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz ze wsi Chrząszczyżewoszyce And it's actually a name of a guy and his birth place from Polish film how i started the second world war

[@jakew520]

Polish isn't that difficult

[@kaca7687]

032 230 XD odmień "być"

[@Slavakovsky]

ja fcale nei mam rzadnyh problmemuw s tym jezykiem

[@juliagana9082]

Then, why do the English-speaking people use the term "it's Greek to me" to describe a difficult language?

[@samiles2008]

That's not what the saying means. It doesn't imply difficulty, it describes incomprehensibility.

[@pischpilot]

hebrew is the hardest

[@MegaBallPowerBall]

Ilias Vl Because to an ancient Roman, Greek was the hardest language they ever saw. The phrase survived because compared to the Romance and Germanic languages near England, Greek is absurdly hard.

[@Lizallinos]

It's a quotation from Shakespeare. Comes from the play, Julius Caesar and is spoken by the character Casca.

[@darknessoffido1195]

In The Netherlands, I heard that they say the term "Its Chinese to me" instead lol

[@SylvainsRamblings]

I'm surprised Tibetan isn't on this list

[@namingisdifficult408]

Sly's Gaming Dear God Tibetan There should be a category 8987788 just for Tibetan

[@daddyleon]

That's because Tibetan is just off the charts.

[@SylvainsRamblings]

+Quickman may win I tried comprehending the grammar rules & my brain hurts just thinking about it

[@a_kit2405]

but I find korean is easy 2 learn

[@L4M1K4Z3]

The alphabet or speaking and writing (forming sentences with conjugations)?

[@glowministry7123]

Lol same, it's pretty easy

[@Crystal_12gem]

Wisdom the alphabet is easy

[@btesskeetit3843]

k_a_ HolyWater TEACH ME!!

[@양상훈-p1z]

BtsLover ummm actually I am korean and I think korean is easy to learn...

[@ThatBoomerDude56]

A language that is IMPOSSIBLE for most Americans to master: The Queen's English.

[@aarnilapsi9336]

People who speak Finnish can understand Estonian, too!

[@timomastosalo]

Some words, maybe 50 % at the best. And Estonians are usually better in understanding Finnish.

[@ljaanisoo2244]

TodellisuudenKumoaja not exactly all of it.

[@timomastosalo]

***** English we understand better, usually

[@marktheufoman6645]

Not very. Little bit can.

[@rando9347]

Saro Ghadernezad TAIVAS VARJELE

[@canabonana4949]

the one language I want to learn IS THE HARDEST

[@Mattropolis97]

To high for Grandpa Dave Don't let it psych you out. Be like Nike and just do it

[@_____._..--_]

Speak english in backwards and change the vowels to arabic, their happy now?

[@Lisa-is2ty]

IKR the top 2 languages i want to learn is the hardest. -_-

[@blackeagle2522]

Same here! I watch anime, and all stuff like that!

[@ShaayLuhGaming]

what in tarnation some are easier depending on the person. What’s hard for one person may be easy to you.

[@s.9860]

I learn Korean in 2 weeks, i think arabic is so hard to learn, cuz i'm from arabic country and i have learned arabic since i was child 😂😂 I'm 16 now , whatever i can't read some arabic words cuz its so hard but in my opinion korean&English is the easier language to learn, even is my english is bad 🙂😂

[@kimseokjin8756]

@Accord 672 اي عندك مانع

[@gwanm-fire5764]

Sorry to disappoint you guys, Georgia has 3 alphabets xD 2 ancient alphabet and one that we are using now (i'm native speaker) so, the one in this video is the ancient one. and believe me difference is huge. our alphabet looks like (აბგდევზთიკლმნოპჟრსტუფქღყშჩცძწჭხჯჰ) - this nowadays xD

[@faheemsyed1674]

Gwan M-fire Wow, great alphabet! It reminds me of the Telugu alphabet. నిన్ను కొడదామనుకుంటున్నాను.

[@yourmother8775]

That alphabet somehow looks like emoji.

[@cnisp7198]

უჰ კაი xD

[@androidplayer1235]

+Ray IV Russian isn't hard

[@kekko4710]

Japan has like. . ... 4 I think or was it more or less I don't know anymore I need sleep

[@JohnVKaravitis]

Why is Moby always barking "1,100 hours plus"? Isn't that like, when you were in grammar school, and you had to write a paper, you used one word repeatedly to get to the word goal?

[@yangruikang]

I’m Chinese and I think Chinese is the most difficult language to learn!

I'm Vietnamese and I think Vietnamese is the most difficult language to learn

[@johnmckenya828]

杨睿康 You are right lol. I love languages but Chinese looks like a nightmare.

[@Mattropolis97]

John Mckenya But if you actually study it, you’ll realize that it’s insanely easy because there are no verb conjugations or adjective conjugations like Japanese and Korean have... also if you learn simplified Chinese, they use extremely easy characters

[@bhoomibhandari3752]

yeppp

[@chomikowaxd7449]

Addalune Not only for English speakers

[@tarcal87]

On the Hungarian part from 3:14 : I'm one, and on the topic of "on" vs "in" for countries, it's so interesting even to me, it's one of those things you never realize about your native language (I certainly haven't, in my 30 years). We also say "on the mirror" as opposed to "in". I had a chat with an American friend about it and she found it interesting but said "in" makes more sense. Just shows the same bias as I described above on what is natural to you :) Because "on the mirror" is actually what is physically happening. The mirrored image is literally on the surface, so if anything, "on" makes sense by default. We also have an odd way for cities: 3 post-fix variants, -on/-en/-ön; -ban/-ben; -ott/-ett (there is just vowel assimilation with the preceding base word, hence the further variations there, but 3 separate types), they mean "on", "in" and a unique one, respectively. Every city/settlement in the country has a specific one to use (e.g. Budapesten, Miskolcon, Zamárdiban, Pécsett etc etc), using the wrong one sounds really weird. For some cities you can use one or two where just using the third would sound weird. For foreign cities, it's always "in" (-ban/-ben) like Párizsban, Sydneyben etc) like with the country rule above. We also have a very flexible word order system for sentences: you can do so many combinations, the word order (usually the first word) suggests what is the focus of the sentence. E.g: _Odaadta neki végre a füzetet_ - He finally gave him the textbook. odaadta: he/she gave to someone (notice how 1 word replaces 3 English ones, and also implies past tense and third person. yay. imagine the combinations then. and it's just for a common verb like "give" ); neki: to him/her (no differentiation in our language); végre: finally; a: the; füzet: textbook; füzetet: the textbook (in objective case) _Odaadta végre neki a füzetet_ _Odaadta a füzetet neki végre_ So far each version means the same, just a general statement without any particular focus on anything. Personal preference which one you choose. The following order examples change the meaning/focus slightly because of the dominant first word: _Végre odaadta neki a füzetet_ - The focus is more on "finally" but not a lot of difference to the above ones. _A füzetet adta oda neki végre_ - The focus is on what was given (the textbook / füzet) (e.g. as a response to: So what did he give her then? ("well, he chose the _textbook_ to give her finally") _ Neki adta oda a füzetet végre_ - The focus is to whom, e.g. "it was her he finally gave the book to" _Neki odaadta a füzetet végre_ - meaning something like "yet, he gave the book to HER" (and not someone else) as a response to like "damn he couldn't lend me that book...." etc etc. just so many variations for everything to convey subtle meanings or nuances. It might seem just flexible, hard to make a mistake, but actually, these are often used for 'hidden' nuances like implying thigs, being passive-aggressive, etc. - so you can sound odd if you don't use it well :p Well maybe no one cares :)) but in English it's dead easy, the word order is very rigid and you have to over-explain what you want to say with additional words, another sentence, etc, while the same can be done shorter in Hungarian with the right order. We also have a tons of post-fixes that generate a ton of variations with the base word. Our longest word (though artificial) is _megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért_

[@anttibjorklund1869]

"Shnellman"? There's no "sh" sound in his name.

[@soul6985]

How many study hours does it take for a finnish speaker to learn japanese?

[@eis364]

I'd like to know too 😂

[@soul6985]

Kawaii Potatooo Pronouncing will at least be easy

[@dylxnchn]

TheFleshEater 3,200 hours plus

[@soul6985]

Dylan DC Why does it take more than for an english speaker? Finnish and japanese are pronounce almost the same way

[@xJdog]

häpee weeaboo

[@Domino365]

Holy shit! I've already been studying Japanese and Korean for a bit now, and NOW I find out they're numbers 1 and 2 on this list. Dammit.

[@rileyevans8272]

Japanese is better tbh

[@jinyoungmysteria193]

Korean is easy to learn, but the grammars is the only thing that confuses you

[@Alex-np4rj]

same bro, i'm impressed now that i can speak near fluent Japaneses, i can understand why its considered so difficult with formal and slang terms as well as learning things like te form and past tense form etc.

[@jinyoungmysteria193]

槽ですか

[@karlakeee7602]

When traveling I love to talk in Estonian and know that people cant understand :)

[@karlakeee7602]

@Redfong ADUTTP LUTTP GDMT AMZM Dude Its not stolen lmao. Finnish and Estonian came from the same language. I really dont feel like giving you a history lesson.

[@karlakeee7602]

@Redfong ADUTTP LUTTP GDMT AMZM Okay Ill give you that, but really all languages come from others. There is no original language tbh

[@anneesippinen1006]

@Redfong ADUTTP LUTTP GDMT AMZM SWV ole vait lehm

[@stassmith8200]

Polish

[@Definitely_Hawks]

That's the whole reason I am learning a language

[@mralexandra]

That feeling when I speak natively 2 languages... Finnish and Hungarian lol

[@edp.3249]

I really am surprised by the rankings. I picked up Japanese rather easily years ago, but after 12 years in Chinese, still can't get the pronunciation correct. Additionally, in my way of thinking, I could communicate tenses in Japanese, but still have no idea at all how to communicate these in Chinese. Japanese's usage of hiragana and katakana have assisted me so much in writing, whereas "it all looks the same" in Chinese. I will say that Korean's writing was the most logical of all. Wish I had spent more time on it

[@dianecripps204]

Basic Japanese grammar is not that hard. Socioinguisticaly, it is difficult. Pronunciation, not hard. Writing system: you will never know it all.

[@markkristjan653]

Bruh, Estonians NEVER wrote in runes, I know this because I am Estonain and I know the history of the languege }:(

[@groggle_noggle3348]

Mark Kristjan Okay...

[@esthelp751]

Tsau siis

[@lunchtasty9406]

Me to

[@PaleTyche]

In fact, archaeologists and historians believe they did use runes. However, the material most likely used -- birch bark -- has not survived. Archaeologists have found metal styli though. Considering the tight trade (and other) relations with Scandinavia, historians are convinced that runes were used in Estonia as well. Later (e.g. late 17th century) use of runes were the calendars: two different types of runic calendars. One was like a stick or single board with engraved runes and another type was several flat wooden boards with engraved runes known as "sirvilauad" or "sirvid".

[@liliankallas2712]

Sul on õigus

[@Snazzma514]

Any language can be easy to learn with the right amount of passion put into it

[@hanskloss9157]

where's polish?

[@xenonkelly3152]

Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz Is Polish a difficult language?

[@JP-oq9il]

Неизвестная Личность Trust me Sometimes Polish is difficult for native speakers

[@xenonkelly3152]

Toksyn Wielki , I'm from Russia and our languages are somewhat similar. But I'm not from Poland, so I can't say anything about complexity. P. S. Sorry for my English

[@MrAmnesiaPl]

Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz no niestety a gdzie mieszkasz Chrząszczyżewoszyce powiad łękołody ?:P

[@birdyi3213]

Polish isn't easy at all, but not as hard as finnish. I'll learn polish......someday ;)

[@DelfinaKS]

Firstly, I think we should clarify that these rankings are for a native speaker of English. I totally agree that Japanese is the most insane language both in written and spoken form. I really can't understand why they need so many levels of formality or how they mange to mess up the writing system so much. However, I disagree that Korean writing is complex. Modern Korean script is in fact one of the simplest to learn: it is very intuitive and completely logical.

[@halvanhelev]

The aptitude really does make different... Like e.g. I'm a native Finnish speaker and that's why Japanese is probably the easiest language to learn to speak but the writing system... well, you get used to it in couple of years but learning the kanji for westenern is insane... luckily we don't have to study nearly as much as for Chinese :D

[@DelfinaKS]

At least the Chinese is more logical. It tries to use a pictograph system and use determiners to make differences in meaning. Japanese writing is the most insane - the only I have heard of which uses two phonetic scripts for the same set of phones plus a sprinkling of several thousand Kanji. Look how simple the feature writing system of Korean is. Can't understand why Japanese want to make life so complicated!

[@halvanhelev]

Well, the Japanese language use exactly the same traditional characters as Chinese used so they also have the pictographic system embedded. Of course Chinese was simplified which made a lot of characters easier to read and write. Japanese never experienced that and that is why the characters look kinda complicated - though they are still intelligible the same way as Chinese ones are. The same relation explains the multiple readings of kanjis. China had so much communication with Japan in early history that parts of the Chinese language absorbed to Japanese. Japanese has also a lot less characters than Chinese. And to be honest, I really really really prefer the idea of learning multiple readings for same character than doing the Chinese thing and to learn multiple characters for same pronunciation :D If you can't remember the kanji the you can just write it in hiragana and your good!

[@papaShegylapavs]

i am georgian and my language is hard ქართული მართლა ძნელია იმენა ძნელია მე პატარა ქართველივარ კავკასიის მთების შვილი თამარმეფის ნათესავი გორგასალის ბიძაშვილი

[@MsPainkiller756]

ნიკა არაბული ქართული ალფაბეტი არაბული გონიათ :)

[@tatatamtu3787]

მეც ვაპირებდი ქართულად დაკომენტარებაას 😀😍😍

[@papaShegylapavs]

kind of

[@papaShegylapavs]

but still is kind of beautiful

[@papaShegylapavs]

its beautiful but grammar is so hard so much to learn

[@cyber1991]

Korean and Arabic are much easier than Chinese. Where did you get your list from? Most Europeans speakers can't get the tones correct.

[@gaonnuri9052]

If tone was really that hard, Vietnamese should be harder than Korean. You speak like tone is all about the difficulty of a certain language. Must not have encountered by other kind of difficulty. There must be something else you can't even imagine.

[@Mattropolis97]

Where did he get the list? From the FSI’s real case studies conducted over decades. Where does the support for your opinions come from?

[@zainjannoud]

Warcy you sure don't know anything about Arabic to say that

[@rei9976]

Warcy at least europeans don’t have a stake american accent tho

[@Hey-py2hb]

The Jackass Linguist he wanna do this just to satisfy weaboos and koreeboos and motivate them you know....

[@Sophie-qx7cm]

I thought that Polish gonna be on the list.

[@empressofslavs8783]

Qookers Games tak

[@joki419]

pani u góry mądrze mówi

[@jimterbraak4275]

To Ja Budyń Siekoladowy :3 Kurwa

[@caseyreavis]

It seems "Kurwa" means that in almost all Slavic languages

[@jusiamsp4303]

taaak

[@mike_dunno]

longest Finnish word: epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkäänköhän

[@castlewhore2007]

Miika Mäentaus 😵😵😵😵😵

[@mike_dunno]

my english skills aren't too good so I'll never be able to explain the meaning of it xD. It's pronounced pretty much the way it's written

[@ekramer1030]

***** MEEEEP!

[@subazgalor2045]

longest Hungarian word: eltöredezettségmentesítőtlenítetthetetlenségtelenítőtlenkedhetnétek.............good luck

[@ekramer1030]

sub azgalor What does it mean?

[@jacobharvey6336]

The list is derived based off of language complexity and its closeness to English because the video is in... ENGLISH! SO stop being butthurt and hating on their findings. Go make a video about your own language and opinions!

[@Mattropolis97]

Jacob Harvey True that. This comment section is pissing me off

[@annaj3207]

I love watching these because I am fluent in Japanese, and seeing it listed as the hardest major language seriously strokes my ego. I could probably afford to deflate my head a bit...

[@iranovianti6839]

I think arabic has to be the hardest one.. the verb alone has 14 different types each..

[@kpopgames7502]

Ira Novianti japanese has 52 types for each verb and korean has 30...

[@zaynaian1085]

Kpop Games Arabic is so complicated and Arabs themselves struggle with it .. imagine there's 15+ accents , and when I say accent I don't mean they pronounce the words differently like in English but I mean a new different freaking language !! Even the native speakers don't understand other accents sometimes

Ira Novianti Vietnamese have no verb 😞

[@windowssux3196]

Speaking standard Arabic is a living hell, literally.The attempt to learn Arabic grammar can or will drive you crazy.

[@Mattropolis97]

Windows Sux It's my impression that nobody "speaks" standard Arabic...it's just written

[@yuiopp0]

Pvaultingfenderbass NO it spoken in all official speaking forms example in news, tv's programs, teaching and so

[@theowl6548]

Windows Sux arabic is a desert langhe that it name comes from the arabic arab the inhabitants of a desert and it have a lot of vocabulary that stand for the same subject because it is an emotional langhe because arab are famouse for being imtional and have millions upon millions ofpoem and stories so it is no surprise that it has so many vocabulary to allow the person speaking it to expres him self and a lot of people say that a person who is an arab is never short on words(I am an arab and happy to be because my native langhe is the 3rd hardest in the world😉

[@Mattropolis97]

xienjxxo Right, but are you ever on the news talking? I'm definitely not. So I'll never have to speak standard Arabic--just understand it and read it.

[@yuiopp0]

They call me Polyglot Jones what with never part when it was just yesterday when I spoke it at school presentation :)

[@RememberRox]

Really? I just started learning korean and it's soooo easy. The other languages on the list seem pretty difficult though. I can't make sense of the arabic and chinese letters.

[@sadia2395]

RememberRox Anyoung haseyo!same here..I am learning Korean as well and so far its all good.I tried learning Arabic earlier, but the verb forms killed me and I surrendered

[@thelove4prince1]

im learning arabic and korean now and i have to say arabic is hard but i can say basic stuff for korean im much better in been learning korean for a while now~

[@sadia2395]

BTSXARMY same here.I tried learning Arabic,but with so many verb forms,its tough for sure.

[@mateusznowak603]

Chyba o czymś zapomiałeś

[@nataliawierzbowska5143]

Też mi się właśnie tak wydaje.

[@daweedx1400]

Racja

[@rafael123loek]

co to kurwa jest

[@annazlamana]

Ale prosím vás chlapci, ta vaše řeč je hrozně easy... Nemusím umět polsky. :)

[@raikitsunagi]

^I can't agree with that.

[@sergej5085]

serbian,try to guess what this means:gore gore gore gore there's no 2 idential words GOOD LUCK

[@jotarokujo8344]

up up up up

[@stojankovacic1524]

ЈА САМ СРБИН ЂЕЦО МОЈА! И НЕ ТРУДИТЕ СЕ ДА РАЗУМЕТЕ ЂЕЦО ТО ЈЕ СЕЉАЧКА РЕЧ hahahaha im serbian top kek

[@anismatar]

gore: up gore: the forests gore: are burning gore: worst now try in english, can can can

[@king10adem]

Gore gore... means Slo malosovich. But Try this English sentence.. "Is that that hat that i have been looking for?

[@BlanchestarlightUwU]

Spanish: ese, ese, ese. And no, they are not the same word.

[@Marcoshary]

Chinese is much more difficult that's Japanese. Spoken Japanese is not too difficult. Kanji is extremely difficult, but so is Chinese Kanji.

[@Marcoshary]

Edmond Manchester How do you call Chinese Kanji?

[@Marcoshary]

Edmond Manchester Oh ok, sorry, I didn't know how to say it in Chinese. I'll call it hamzi then. The Japanese one originated from the Chinese and they can understand many characters each other, but the spoken language is totally different. That's what I heard at least.

[@Marcoshary]

Edmond Manchester Thanks. I watched a video at you tube these days explaining it. I'll check more at Wikipedia too. Regards

[@trien30]

Edmond Manchester you do know only simple stuff and biographies are only things correct on Wikipedia? and even biographies are messed with. They keep inserting that a living person is dead until the subject of the article sues wiki. Most of the things are wrong because of people and admins keep messing each other's input.

[@真田廣之-u3x]

stupid

[@Lasiooo2]

basically everything: 1,100 hours plus

[@FloraCorner]

me:I bet Japanese isn't on here pffft when I see Japanese:OH COME ON I'M TRYING TO LEARN JAPANESE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mi8628]

You still can, it is just difficult.

[@matra21]

*Hungarian tongue twister* for you: Te tetted e tettetett tettet, te tettetett tettek tettese, te.

[@balintbartok1758]

Ez még nekem is nehéz. Tudod te mennyi törött nyelv lesz emiatt? :D

[@ShidaiTaino]

Krisztián Mátraházi I would rather be ran over by Hungarian horse archers and hussars than translate that.

[@balintbartok1758]

Idk, where you from, but it's practically impossible to pronounce, i am from Hungary and i can't do it, but i will try to translate it. You did this pretended deed, you perpetrator of pretended deeds, you. I did my best. Oh and here is something that i WILL NOT TRANSLATE: Nem minden fajta szarka farka tarkabarka, csak a tarkabarka farkú szarkafajta farka tarkabarka, mert ha minden fajta szarka farka tarkabarka volna, akkor minden szarkafajta tarkabarka-farkú szarkafajta volna.

[@dprezzz1561]

Bálint let me try to translate this "Tarkabarka farku szarka" gem. Not all types of magpie has a variegated tail, only the variegated tailed magpie’s tail is variegated, because if all types of magpie would have variegated tail, then all types of magpie would be variegated tailed magpie

[@maymay-sq1ix]

Krisztián Mátraházi Köszi loool még a magyaroknak is nehéz a nyelv megtanulasa

[@mxlti1775]

i'm Estonian and have problems with the Estonian language

[@wango6603]

Ew Social Life sama siin eesti keel on raske

[@mxlti1775]

karl324plays räigelt

[@starofgaming6864]

Ew Social Life ma tulin vaatama seda videot sest nagin seda kuradima eesti lippu

[@PabloPea]

Mis jaapanist arvate?

[@mxlti1775]

ruzki Mn üpris norm tglt

[@meemaylovebeejays]

Suomi Perkele

[@annabelscovers951]

I'm learning Estonian, Korean, French and German ((and English)) at the same time and I want to learn Japanese... I think Estonian is pretty easy to learn ((I'm Dutch so the nouns sound the same)), French and Korean are more difficult although I would pick Korean over French. And don't get me started on German x3, but I'm pretty motivated because my mindset is like this 'If they can speak it and learn other languages, you can do it too!' And I want to study for those languages because I like learning new languages, it's difficult when you start but once you see that you're progressing you'll want to study~ for all the people who want to learn a new language: you can do this and you'll nail it! Don't give up too soon and try to make it as fun as possible! ^^ ((I may sound childish but I'm 14 years old I'm sorry))

[@pesuvalgendaja8391]

Tohib küsida... Miks sa otsustasid eesti keelt õppida? On see sulle kuidagi vajalik?

[@irisc0510]

Hi! Thank's for your video :) I'm learning Japanese and I think Japanese is not difficult😉 the prononciation is very simple and the grammar is not difficult 😉 I speak French and French grammar is much harder than Japanese grammar 😅 But to write in japanese... hem... Hiraganas and katakanas are simple, okay, but kanjis... Kanjis are the only difficulty for me 😅😂

[@Mattropolis97]

Mlle Sushi Ok then if the grammar is easy, translate this sentence without Google: 私は両親に野菜を食べさせられました （わたしはりょうしんにやさいをたべさせられました) since you're probably new, I'll tell you what the vocabulary is: りょうしん is parents and やさい is vegetables. Trust me, the grammar is harder than you think. When you're learning the ___は___を__ます structure, they don't tell you about the grammatical firestorm you're getting yourself into. That sentence I typed is actually extremely basic

[@irisc0510]

"I ate vegetables at my parents' place" ? I speak French and I think the French grammar is most difficult than Japanese grammar ;)

[@Mattropolis97]

Mlle Sushi That's not even close. 食べさせられました does not mean "ate" I also never mentioned anything about a place. に is used for so many other things. Furthermore, you would use で in that situation because you did something *at* a place. Try again. Each verb in Japanese has 52 conjugations Just for the sake of comparison, your sentence would translate as 私は両親の家で野菜を食べました

[@Mattropolis97]

Mlle Sushi For a native English speaker, French takes 24 weeks to achieve a general professional proficiency and Japanese takes 88 weeks. Here's my source: www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/language-difficulty So even if you think the grammar of french is harder, it still takes way less time to achieve a high level of proficiency. That's why they teach it in high school. I'm not sure if you learned french as a second language or grew up with it, but generally, learning your 3rd language is easier and faster than learning your second. That may be why Japanese is easy for you.

[@irisc0510]

They call me Polyglot Jones Ok thank you 😉 I learn Dutch English Polish and japanese it's that😂 French is my native language but there are a lot of native French peolple who don't know perfectly the French grammar 😉

[@kultigin1998]

"Muvaffakiyetsizlestiremediklerimizdenmişsinizcesine" This is a Turkish word :)

[@ciachoguy]

Wyrewolwerowany Rewolwerowiec it's Polish World

[@mmtprincess]

Siebenhundertsiebenundsiebzigmilliardensiebenhundertsiebenundsiebzigmillionensiebenhundertsiebenundsiebzigtausensiebenhundertsiebenundsiebzig this is a german word

[@liverpoolgerrard6176]

Muvaffaqiyatlashtiraolmayotganingizdandirda its the Uzbek word

[@oyukapurev9794]

ЦАХИЛГААНЖУУЛАЛТЫНХАНТАЙГАА (tsahilgaanjuulaltykhantaigaa) This is a Mongolian word

[@lakas_tama]

kumain kumakain kakain kakainin kinain kinakain kainin thats a tagalog word 🤣

[@adelineinactivity]

Korean alphabet took 3 months... so like 100 hours of class. Korean isn't easy, but it isn't hard. I'm assuming the same for Japanese, but a mess to write.

[@adelineinactivity]

well, fully. Hangeul takes 2 seconds to a basic level.

[@bonnieaprillollipoptrigger6516]

Hahahhaa Estonian is runes in this video!👏😂

[@mellowyellow5445]

Raise your hand if you're a kpopper and you can read hangul, but don't know wtf you're reading about 😂

[@Cuinn837]

I have found Russian to be very, very difficult to learn.

[@PupSaran]

I feel very proud to be Estonian and be one of thous Estonians who can speak Finnish too :D

[@miksuko]

It's very similar to Finnish in many aspects, so yeah.

[@ccgamerlol]

Having a handful of similar words for the same meanings makes a language similar to another completely different language ?

[@Pyovali]

+Crassie The syntax is also near identical, let alone phonology. Language relation goes deeper than just word analyzation. It has a lot to do with how grammar works. And in case of Finnish and Estonian, if you know one language, you know about 90% of the other language syntax wise.

[@adskafjrufhauäšhlklöjlllhhhui]

ESTONIA/VIRO IS JUST SOUTHERN PART HELSINKI :PPPPPP OWNED :D

[@PupSaran]

:D

[@DA-kq9mj]

how is Lithuanian not on this it's one of the hardest languages to learn on earth

[@Lodin03]

idk, i dont know the language but 2 of my friends is Lithuanian and they say it`s the hardest language too learn xD

[@blackeagle2522]

I actually don´t think Lithuanian is hard to learn š - sh, č - ch. Its just one of the oldes languages. I live in lithuania, and something like that is actually easy to learn. I am not Lithaunian

[@viizionz8723]

Shouldn't it be Chinese #1 instead of Japanese? Japanese isn't that hard.

[@Timpling]

Luis No lmao.

[@lulushah.]

Luis Chinese isn't either.

[@elyssatruman1292]

Japanese has more complex grammar but Chinese tones are a pain

[@sarahwilson2440]

yeah, I learn both and I think Chinese is definitely harder.

[@Lovejuicyfruity]

Luis Chinese is dificult to make the sentences at the same level as Japanese but learning the alphabet would be Japanese (kanji has more then 40.000 different types) so it depends in what are u saying

[@mybloddychannel1]

I'm sorry but in what univers is korean harder than arabic?????? I'm studying both lmao

[@chanyeolswife5235]

Wen he said korean I was like what? hangul was invented to be the easiest alphabet ever made... I was to suscribe but then... nope

[@orlandogarcia7273]

I'm studying japanese and thanks to this video I know I can learn Korean, Arabic and Chinese, because they are easier than japanese lmfao

[@charleswetzel8436]

+María Yésica Moreno Korean is a tough-as-hell language with an easy alphabet. Just because you can decode Korean Hangeul syllables doesn't mean you can speak, or even read, Korean.

[@charleswetzel8436]

+Alma Lou They aren't easier than Japanese. The video just ranks them that way. Korean is harder than Japanese in several ways (pronunciation, fewer English loan words, reading is more difficult than Japanese at the higher levels because you have no Chinese characters to guide you as to the meaning). Chinese has almost no English loanwords, unlike Japanese, and requires an extra 1,000~2,000 Chinese characters to be able to read proficiently, and has tones. In Japanese, you only need to know 2,000 Chinese characters to read fluently, whereas in Chinese 3,000 is about the bare minimum to read fluently. Of course, Japanese has its difficult parts, as well--more homophones than any language I've ever encountered, extremely obfuscated run-on sentences (maybe even worse than Korean), more strokes/readings per character than simplified Chinese, etc. I've never studied Arabic, but I can guarantee you that it is more difficult than Japanese in at least some ways, as well. At this level (Category V), which language is "easier" depends on your motivation and what you're good at. I'm sure Navajo (not listed) is also quite difficult. And Sentinelese, well, if you even try to land on their island, they will likely kill you with spears. Definitely a different experience from trying to practice your Japanese.

[@aaafdnga]

estonian is not really that hard.. BECAUSE I AM A ESTONIAN!!!!

[@fisu8087]

yks kaks koli neli did i do it right

[@andreasveide]

@@fisu8087 almost, actually it is üks kaks kolm neli

[@maxxedit1539]

@@andreasveide In Finnish yksi, kaksi, kolme, neljä

[@andreasveide]

@@maxxedit1539 I knew it already

[@zennyy.12]

Yea estonians.isn't hard

[@BlanchestarlightUwU]

Spanish is also quite hard since it has: 1) Uncountable tenses. And inside them: one ending for each grammatical person that makes unnecessary (most of the time) the use of the subject. 2) 2 different sounds for letter "r". 3) Accents (extra important to learn this: one simple accent may turn an entire word into another: for example, "te", which means "you" (as a direct/indirect object), and "té", which means "tea"). 3) Letter "h" isn't pronounced unless it has a "c" in front of it, then it sounds like "ch" sound in words like "much". 4) It differences between number and gender. 5) The original Spanish (Spanish that is spoken in Spain) DISTINGUISHES between "c/z" sound (they sound the same) and "s" sound. 6) An extra letter: "ñ". It looks like an "n", but isn't pronounced the same. As I would say, it is pronounced like if you wanted to say 2 "n" at the same time. It is quite strange, I know! 7) Liquid "s" DOESN'T exist in Spanish.That means, we will always have to write an "e" before "s" if it is located at the beginning of a word and it is followed by others like "p", "l", "t", "c"... For example, in English we write "special". Well, in Spanish we write "especial". And that is why non-Spanish speakers laugh at our pronounciation! 😂

[@francinecastillo5318]

Excuse me? I might not be American (I'm Latina) but Korean is actually one of the easiest languages to learn (since it uses an alphabet and not syllables). I already know how to write, text and read (not fluently tho). I'm also slowly building up my vocabulary and already catch up some words. All that and I'm studying alone. So yeah that's something; especially since I'm just 12. If anything Spanish is harder because it has around 12 words to express a word. Ex.: comeremos, comeré, comerán.... and if you don't add the "tilde" in the right position, it can mean a whole different thing.

[@Mattropolis97]

BTS wrecked me The alphabet isn’t the language. Easy alphabets don’t mean anything about the difficulty of the language because they aren’t the “language”, they allow silent communication of a language

[@RedJoker9000]

One of the many languages I know is Arabic (had to since my parents were born and raised in south asia/middle east). I'm guessing why most people have a hard time to master it and others like maderan/chinese/japanese etc is that it doesn't follow the pattern that the English alphabet does. Of course the one I want to learn is the hardest, and I want to learn it is because of Anime/Manga :).

[@a_can_of_soda]

+Kimberly Parker Yes. Another thing that makes Arabic difficult is that a lot of words don't even include vowels when they're written.

[@RedJoker9000]

Yes it does, but for me it wasn't bad since I am left handed. :) As for my age, it was from 5 or 6. I had to learn Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Arabic, Tamil, Karala, and English growing up. Later had to learn Spanish on top of those.

[@bttawfiq]

You know the problem also with Arabic is the accent, each Arab country has a different accents even within the country regions, some are so different that we Arabic natives struggle to understand!

[@bttawfiq]

Kimberly Parker What's more confusing to anyone learning Arabic is that so many words lack vowels but can be read differently and sound differently to have a different meaning depending on the sentence being used in. Makes sense? :D

[@RedJoker9000]

I had to learn it. Depending where you are in the middle east/south asia, there are many different languages spoken depending on where you are. Though I was born and raised in the US, my parents weren't. My dad moved here in his late 30s and my mom in her early 30. So like many first generation kids, they tend to know the language their parents speak. I have family in many different locations in Asia so I had to learn it to communicate with them. As for the Arabic, I was raised with Islam and you NEED to read the Quran in Arabic. So I had to learn it to read, understand and speak it.

[@friedfreedjustine3588]

Huh, I'm proud now. I speak one of the hardest languages in the world: Chinese!!! 😂 3 years later: Now I speak 8 languages O.O Funny how time flies...

[@_____._..--_]

Better learn japanese.

Vanilla bean I speak Vietnamese which is harder to pronounce if compare it to all the language in the world, Chinese and Japanese only hard in writing system and grammar but for speaking Vietnamese is the hardest language in the world

[@themightychabunga2441]

Wo hue shuo yidanr zongwen.

[@양상훈-p1z]

Chí Thiện Nguyễn I agree because I am living in việt nam LOL

[@ineedfriendskms2664]

Corrected. You speak one of the hardest *to learn* languages, if born with/brought up with mandarin, it should be easy .

[@colchis.]

Georgia has actually 3 different scripts called: ასომთავრული, ნუსხური and მხედრული. Now we are using script called მხედრული. You did mistake because you used ასომთავრული, that script is old, (5 century BC) but now we don't use that anymore.

[@Drogon_Visenya]

Korean and Japanese are literally top most easiest language to learn. Korean Alphabet is so easyyyyyyy. Japanese Alphabet is a little bit hard, you have to learn Hiragana, Katekana and Kanji, but once you learn those it is easy. pronoucniation is so easy. Work order is way much more easier then English. and Japana and Korean grammar is so easy. You don't need, present tense, present perfect conutuinues, present countinues, past perfect, etc... . I honestly don't know who comes up with this results

[@boigirl4266]

Well I'll say about Korean Consider there are yeah, few tenses, Past, Present, Future tenses. And a bit more. Very honorific, slightly honorific, neutral, slightly casual, very casual. Basic math: 3 x 5 = 15 tenses. And there's those negatives. Negating the verb needs *ANOTHER* conjugation Meaning, 15 x 2 = 30 endings you need to learn and there are even more that I don't wanna talk more. xD So, for English speakers, Korean and Japanese are automatically two of the most hard languages to master. Language might seem easy from a glance, but when you get deep, it *reveals its true nature*.

[@Mattropolis97]

Hoxha Durrsim There are so many problems with this post I don't even know where to start 🙄 First of all, I'm assuming you're not a native English speaker. This video's "results" are not for you. Second, the alphabet is NOT the language. It's a supplementary system added to allow silent communication of a language. Therefore it shouldn't be what makes a language easy. Third, "you just have to learn hiragana, katakana, and kanji, once you've learned those~" stop right there..."once you've learned those"?.....yeah, I just decided to learn 2000 kanji today. No big deal Fourth, no tenses......... -_- let's look at one verb: 食べる 食べない 食べた 食べなかった 食べろう 食べます 食べません 食べました 食べませんでした 食べましょう 食べて 食べている 食べていない 食べていた 食べていなかった 食べています 食べていません 食べていました 食べていませんでした 食べていましょう 食べられる 食べられない 食べられた 食べられなかった 食べられます 食べられません 食べられました 食べられませんでした 食べられましょう 食べれば 食べさせる 食べさせない 食べさせた 食べさせなかった 食べさせます 食べさせません 食べさせました 食べさせませんでした 食べさせましょう 食べさせられる 食べさせられない 食べさせられた 食べさせられなかった 食べさせられます 食べさせられません 食べさせられました 食べさせられませんでした 食べさせられましょう How many does Chinese have? 0

[@Drogon_Visenya]

I understand our point but still... Kanji you don't actuall need to learn all of them, even Japanese young generation has started lacking on Kanji, they will probably get rid of it and Use Hiragana and Katana also. No further discussions, Everthing depends from your mother language and how close is that to the language you want to learn. I just get pissed because when people talk about languages they directly refer to Japanese Chinese and Korean as impossible to learn just because of their Alphabet.

[@kpopgames7502]

Hoxha Durrsim I think you got your swords mixed up with your alphabets bruh. It's Katekana not Katana

[@sergej5085]

Hoxha Durrsim i bet you are from Kosovo

[@kais3297]

You should have talked about "Kokko, kokoo koko kokko kokoon" ("Kokko, gather up the whole bonfire")

[@kais3297]

***** I saw someone commenting about it already

[@kais3297]

***** En ollu varma ootko suomalainen xD

[@ΓιώταΣ-ι7ψ]

I would put Greek too tbh bc it's a pretty hard language to learn + its prob the most ancient language and has a lot of grammatic and spelling rules, over 5M words and a lot of diphthong that can be heard as the same but are spelt differently, and that's something that 95% of the Greek people can't manage. it may seem easy to sb bc it's similar to English and Latin (Greeks smthng like the mother language of all the languages w/o symbols) but it's acc a lot harder lol

[@geminiintauro6140]

Giota Sgm Personally, I would say otherwise. Greek has changed (as most of the languages) through the years, so you cannot say it is the "hardest language." After talking and talking with my sister, we both came to the conclusion that maybe the hardest language to learn would be Icelandic, since it hasn't changed a thing in a whole millennium! Just imagine it! I'm not implying that Greek isn't hard itself, but compared to Icelandic or Finnish, Arabic, and even Hungarian (I'm still trying to figure out how to greet, huh)… it's not that hard.

[@navykinghd150]

I personally am Greek so I can't really tell how people see the language..most people say it sounds a lot like Spanish but I really can't xD I think it's pretty hard but not one of the hardest because it is based on latin alphabet

[@Mattropolis97]

Giota Sgm Greek makes up like 20%(?) of English vocabulary. It's in the same family as English too. These are all things that make Greek easier than the languages on the list

[@alpinoterran]

how can you just blurt out that "greek is prob the most ancient language" without any info to back it up?

[@Mattropolis97]

alpinoterran I agree. That title goes to Tamil. It's speakers can read and fully comprehend texts from thousands of years ago

[@mollzzzxxx9875]

There’s a ton of ways to say “wo(I/am)” in Chinese: Wô Wò Wó Wō

[@sksksk1720]

Japanese is really easy to leanr and idk why its on this list, just watch pokemon english sub

[@ivannestorovic4495]

Amen

[@bellacieen1122]

True,Just watch anime and you'll know more words than learning a language in school for 4-8 years😂

[@Voidoidido]

Not even close, anime teaches you wrong. Giving you words most fluent Japanese speakers don't use and it requires much more effort than a show. ごめんなさい

[@sksksk1720]

Cywron Extreme at least it's still japanese

[@Voidoidido]

AshGreninja_12 yes but you will ot have basic conversation skills or know any of the three alphabets.

[@conorwilson1382]

wheres Irish an bhfuil cad agam dul amach mas é do thoil e

[@eoghan887]

Up the ra

[@martinlaird4738]

G. erry Adams

[@PrincessDenyse]

Conor wilson Hey Coner, I always thought that was called Gaelic, so thanks for the heads-up on that...and no I am not being sarcastic, just overwhelmed with the fookin amazing languages out there! Thanks for your comment and Cheers!

[@pints6994]

Denyse Van Leuven In Ireland "Gaelic" is a sport lol. It's a type of football.

[@conorwilson1382]

Denyse Van Leuven​ yeah it's either gaelic football irelands main sport or gaelige/irish ( language ) its super hard to learn ( currently learning it to no avail )

[@mijidsurenamgalan7503]

Im mongolian and i will say. I find old traditional mongolian writting extreamly difficult. And it took me a very long time to learn

[@matthewbaumann630]

Does it sound the same as modern Mongolian?

[@e.a1743]

@@matthewbaumann630 its just a different script tho. Everything is quite same

[@oyukapurev9794]

Some (most words) sounds different

[@Arkhai2001]

97% yes 3% no

[@MiguelSantos2002]

The difficulty of a language is very relative, it depends a lot of your native language.

[@jeffreyd508]

Unless you plan to live forever in said country, most are a waste of time. Stick with the 'Big 6" UN languages....English, Spanish, French, Russian, Mandarin, Arabic. You're welcome.

[@kpopgames7502]

Jeffrey D I'd say german instead of french but ok

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

Foreign languages are worth learning just to widen your perspective!

[@aliciastyles11]

More music so no 😤

[@kekko4710]

Well obviously for me Finish is one of the easiest languages for me to learn (Imma Estonian btw) TERE eestlased!!

[@fisu8087]

Nora F no tere mä oon kyl suomesta

[@aosidfh]

Aitäh?

[@Mariam-K-Kh]

You showed the old Georgian alphabet that hasn't been used for centuries :D