What's the HARDEST LANGUAGE? (Arabic, Mandarin or Japanese?)

Arabic, Mandarin and Japanese are 3 of the most difficult languages for English speakers. But which one is truly the World's Hardest Language? Let's find out...
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Did I get it wrong? Is there another language that should be in the top spot? Let me know!
00:00 - The World's Hardest Language?
00:34 - The Method
00:57 - Hardest Pronunciation
03:29 - How I Learn Languages (Pimsleur - Sponsored)
04:14 - Hardest to Read
08:31 - Hardest Grammar
11:02 - The Final Verdict
As always, thanks for watching!

[@bishup172]

Thanks Brian for your time and effort. We really appreciate it

[@youssefrabiee5033]

It's called brian, brain is 🧠,have a good day 😊

[@bishup172]

@@youssefrabiee5033 oops a little misspell lol

[@h._.9]

as a native arabic speaker, i must say your pronunciation is incredible for real. also i never noticed "صباح الخير" would be so hard to pronounce lol. it's like a piece of cake for us :)

[@user-nk2pb7qh8s]

ما شاء الله

[@uexqh272]

هاي انا عربيه

[@Fahadx43]

He pronounces the letters good but his accent is terrible don’t try to cover it up

[@h._.9]

@@Fahadx43 وليش هخفي الموضوع؟ لكنته بعد حلوة. وعلى الاقل حتى لو بدك تنتقده قولها بطريقة حلوة ما تعرف الا تجرح مشاعر الناس انت؟

[@lllx2.195]

@@h._.9بس تحس مستحيل تسمع اامريكي وتحسه فعععللاا يتكلم عربي يعني عندنا لو في واحد متمكن بالانقلش مررهه تحس انه فعلا كانه native speaker بس الاجانب بشكل عام في تكسير

[@goodgood6471]

Thank you, Mr. Brian. I follow your lessons constantly, and I hope that you will provide us with many English language lessons and will not be absent from us.🎉

[@user-lk3qv8cb3n]

その発音のハシだと橋じゃなく端edgeになっちゃうのではと思いました…

[@user-be4td5rk5w]

橋にも聞こえるけど…？

[@user-tu1pg5ly6h]

会話中にこの発音での単語が出ても日本人側が察して伝わるけど、動画の「はし」の発音はまだ英語圏アクセントが残ってるし、正しい「箸」と「橋」とも違うから (あ、海外の方だな…)ってわかるよね まぁ、伝わるだけで十分だから日本語の会話としてはマジで何の問題も無いけども 「伝わるレベルでOK」なら日本語は他と比べても簡単だと思う

[@andyn2249]

文章ではなく単語だけだと微妙だけど端には聞こえないな

[@abc2776]

は↑し↓(箸)、は↓し↑(橋,端)だから合ってるぞ こういう日本人が無意識にやってるようなことはむしろ外国人学習者の方が理論的に理解してて詳しいまであるから下手なこと言わん方がいい

[@nabilh.6357]

Impressive explanation. Gut gemacht 👌👍

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

Thank you!

[@amirgoud2004]

Danke

[@daomet]

Amazing prononciation in arabic amd chinese !!and amazing video!! Good luck

[@fahmad7194]

Knowledgeable and pretty decent pronunciation too 👌

[@coltynstone-lamontagne]

I thought this was going to be very uniformed and surface level like many videos on this topic. Glad I clicked it because i was wrong! Solid video all around! Thanks😊

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

Thank you, and thanks for watching!

[@Hamedd101]

​​11:43 أخيراً 😂 @@BrianWilesLanguages

[@earlysda]

lamontagne, what is "uniformed"?

[@rafedrafed8396]

@@BrianWilesLanguagesأنا عربي واعرف اقرا اللغة الانكليزية واريد تعلم اللغة الالمانية بمن تنصحني ابدا اولا اتعلم الالمانية او الانكليزية لاني مازلت ضعيف بالانكليزية. شكرا لك

[@_aliamkana5517]

​الانجليزية اهم @@rafedrafed8396

[@AcrabatX]

I learn Japanese and Arabic and I find Japanese easier!

[@menneldesoukii7030]

Omg! U serious 😂 I’m arab

[@eslamabdelbaky5816]

بالتوفيق

[@BelalKoko-ju9ut]

ترجم كلمة ترجم يلا ❤

[@random_girl712]

So, iam an arab learning English and Japanese 🙂

[@spartanbeast3575]

As someone whose first language wasn't always English (I'm from Bosnia) and had to learn English at the age of 10 when moving countries, I also learned Arabic at 16 (became fluent a few years later, including standard Arabic), as well as Syrian dialect, and now learning Japanese, I must say that my years of studying Arabic prior to this gives me huge bias towards Arabic, so I'd say right now that's way easier for me to understand and speak, but as for learning, I do agree that Japanese is easier to pick up. My next goal after becoming semi-fluent in Japanese is to pick up Russian (that one will be a breeze, since my mother tongue is a Slavic language already and shares thousands of common words with Russian which I already know by default). Learning the Russian Cyrillic alphabet was also a breeze since it's similar to the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, which I had learned at school in Bosnia in 3rd grade.

[@younesbadri]

شكرا على القيديو براين❤ تحية لك من المغرب

[@Meh518]

مشفتيش المغرب مقسم؟

[@9tnb]

هو ما عارفش اش واقع في الصحراء ​@@Meh518

[@user-sj9hd7me4b]

Thank you very much for the explanation

[@janaghanem1603]

I absoulotly love this video! Thanks for your effort.❤ From an Arabic native speaker.

[@truefriend5332]

Great video! Fun fact: Amharic and Japanese have the same syntax. My definition of syntax: "How we put words together in a sentence to make sense."

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

Wow I had no idea! Thanks for letting me know 👍

[@oldsport24]

Thanks for motivation to keep learning English, It seems so easy after watching your video

[@lllx2.195]

What’s your native language?

[@ruminatingenigma4649]

I can't believe you didn't touch on onyomi and kunyomi regarding reading japanese.

[@sagambakong5017]

生

[@Komatik_]

Yup. Japanese basically looked at Chinese writing, asked "you think that's fucked up? Hold my sake" and went ever so slightly nuts. Koreans thankfully had the fortitude to do away with characters and just write in an alphabet. (They'd already disposed of their equivalent of kunyomi, as far as I understand, and just wrote native words phonetically)

[@infernus..]

The way you compare the difficulty of languages is very logical, well done

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

Thank you 🙏

[@i.am.navkaur]

That was a fun video! I am starting to learn Egyptian Arabic and came across your videos recently. Very helpful. You helped me memorize the alphabet with mnemonics that I was initially having trouble with!

[@FF_Shiko]

Keep going from Egypt 🇪🇬❤️

[@shieldstar5629]

My personal opinion is i guess Arabia is the most difficult language to learn from anyone not an Arabic speaker

[@mrpopcorn700]

@@FF_Shiko ياعرص لا تشجعها تتعلم اسوء لكنه

[@Ninja-for.killyou]

No Learning the Arabic language is not that difficult​@@shieldstar5629

[@Pcan-uq6vg]

how is it going or كيف يجري الوضع ؟ او ها؟ بشر كيف الوضع

[@CouchTomato87]

Although alluded to, one of the biggest difficulties with Arabic is that most people don’t actually speak MSA in conversation so when you really want to learn, you have to study both MSA and the regional dialect (eg Egyptian), so you’re basically learning two languages in one. This probably should’ve weighed it higher in difficulty

[@choreomaniac]

Agree. He should have considered availability of material and dialect differences. Japanese has a single standard for academics and it is easily understood by all Japanese speakers. Japan is one of the most prolific producers of popular media from movies, video games, manga, anime, music, etc. it is incredibly easy to fill your day with input in Japanese on any topic. Chinese has plenty of material too but you have to pick a language first within the Chinese family. Even if you choose Mandarin, there are many regional differences and of course much popular media is in Cantonese or other languages. Arabic has far less input material, especially if you aren’t learning Egyptian Arabic. You won’t find nearly the same amount of comic books, light novels, animation, etc. And as you said the regional differences can be huge.

[@SSS_SWORD]

علي فكرة هو بس لو اتعلم العربية الفصحي كل الناس في الدول العربية تعرف الفصحي مش محتاج اللهجة تقريبا ده بنسبالي انا مدرستش عربية فصحي لاكن هي لغتي الام فانا اعرفها كويس

[@nashygame635]

صحيح نحن لا نتكلم بها عادتاً لاكن نحن نستطيع أن نفهم المتحدثين بها في الحقيقة اعتقد انها سهله بعد أن تتعلم كيف تتكلم بلغه العربيه العامة لن العاميه مشتقه من اللغة العربية الفصحى​@@SSS_SWORD

[@SSS_SWORD]

@@nashygame635 قصدك يحتاج يتعلم فصحي ورح نفهمه لانك كاتب العكس

[@zainmahmood9088]

​@@choreomaniacread Quran filled with Arabic

[@samir...9517]

What an amazing video, Thank you bro!

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

Thanks, Samir!

[@manar3773]

استمعت بالفيديو ! شكرا ❤ سوي المرة الجاية فيديو مقارنة بين اسهل لغات بالعالم (مستخدمة)

[@Deantw2]

Such a great video!

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

Thanks so much!

[@nikone7957]

(Im not English native speaker) I do study only Japanese out of the languages you mentioned, but i think Japanese has a huge gap between beeing understandable and sounding like native. The pronaunciation is really hard to get natural, and the honorific system is pure horror. Although, being Japanese begginer is quite easy

[@Aqwesptcok]

That's true. I'm japanese and i talked a lot of people who wanna speak japanese. They speak pretty good but it's not like a native pronunciation. It's a japanese spoken by foreigners.

[@cheikgoth2250]

Amazing video brain keep going ❤❤❤❤

[@raniamuhamed1482]

Sehr toll 😻

[@user-ed2bv1cp3x]

Good video, by the way I am also learning French as a second language not counting my mother language Arabic, and I know English. and you may find the counting system hard which it is hard ngl, but when you learn it and reach the numbers from 100-1000 you will find it very logical and actually Arabic grammar is like a connecting system you find each rule has a connection and supports the other one

[@spartanbeast3575]

Actually Japanese has an even crazier counting system. There are many of them, depending on what it is you're counting. And they just keep getting more bizarre as you go on. For example, there is a separate counting system just for counting cylindrical objects (like trees, pens, bottles, pipes, etc.). Here's a playlist of 29 videos, 14 of which are different ways to count depending on what it is you're counting. kzbin.info/aero/PLvfyEkzQwHG7bC_Egyyzx1tw59rwNqahb&si=I7lEp_LYWASvTMJV

[@user-rw3bk6wp4m]

​​​@@spartanbeast3575 That's not that extraordinary. Just think they are some kind of special units, such as 'five pints', 'a gallon', and 'ten miles'

[@spartanbeast3575]

@@user-rw3bk6wp4m Ah makes sense.. I suppose it's quite easy once you learn them all, they just look hard on the surface at first

[@tomatodo375]

I'm Japanese. He showed 10:07 how opposite are the sentence constructions between Japanese and English. That's also why we Japanese are quite bad at mastering English. Japanese grammar is actually similar to Turkey's (a.k.a agglutinative languages). These sentence constructions are not so strict but very flexible because of the marker-particles that define the word's function in the sentence, so we can shuffle the order or drop the subject/object/verb. However, this grammar concept is quite alien to the English. The only strict thing in English is sentence construction, the function of the word is defined by its positions, not by conjugations or particles. So, sometimes we can't understand an English sentence even though we know every single word in it.

[@alantew4355]

I wonder, since you know Kanji, would you be able to understand written Mandarin Chinese? But in Chinese, the function of a word is defined by its position too, like in English.

[@tomatodo375]

Of course not, answering as a average Japanese person who have not learned Chinese. Sometimes we can understand short words written in Chinese but it's hard to understand a whole sentence. In addition, they use many of unknown Kanji(Hanzi) for us.

[@SerkanKabak25]

I am surprised Turkish is not on this list.

[@loberius1555]

as a turkish, who's just started learning japanese, i totally agree with you. Learning Japanese is so enjoyable for me

[@ianianianianian5]

Japanese grammar is almost 99% identical as Korean grammar.

[@user-mw5nx9ii1i]

Dear Mr Wiles! Thanks for your wonderful video comparing 3 really heavy languages each challenging its learner with lots of difficulties and, besides, confronting him or her with a long history and a huge literature. What makes this triple challenge even more formidable is that the learner has also to master 3 different writing systems, just the most difficult on planet Earth. Your are not only a great language learner, but also a skilful, tricky teacher, who is entertaining and enjoyable to listen to as well. I consider your almost perfect pronunciation of these 3 languages, which are so different in this respect, a big achievement proving you a real talent for languages, that is a pretty gifted linguist.#

[@robinharwood5044]

Japanese alone has three different writing systems.

[@khalidelgazzar]

شكرا لك بريان Thanks Brian, that was a nice one 😅😊

[@TeamorninI]

براين مو بريان

[@earlysda]

He didn't mention that Japanese kanji have a minumum of two ways to read each kanji, and sometimes many more, depending on what other kanji or hiragana that are in front or behind them. . For example: その他。sonota. 他の。 hokano. . 銀行。　 ginkou 行きます。ikimasu.

[@ITSMe-xl5ih]

Hito Jin

[@earlysda]

@@ITSMe-xl5ih Jin, Nin. Hito, Bito. To.

[@nihongok]

生,the ways to read this Kanji in Japanese is well over 100

[@earlysda]

@@nihongok whew! How many of that 100 does the average 50 year old Japanese person know - 12 or so?

[@Komatik_]

Freaking 水 has like 14 different readings used only in names because fuck you.

[@philswiftreligioussect9619]

8:19 Something that needs to be factored in is that Japanese kanji have at least two or more pronunciations depending on the context and the kanji, whether it acts as a prefix or a suffix, etc. This makes Japanese kanji much harder to pronounce, and every Japanese word has a pitch accent to memorize too.

[@elezraita]

Many kanji only have one 音読み and no 訓読み. Granted many have multiple 音読み and 訓読み, so it probably evens out. Just saying.

[@philswiftreligioussect9619]

@@elezraita it's not that they only have one reading, it's that it's more common for them to be read in only one way, and it does not even out because at least 1243 kanji or more have multiple readings in the 常用漢字. Even then there are still probably even more kanji that are used in Japanese, a lot of Japanese people can't even spell out some Japanese words because of kanji that they never learned.

[@Saloo7sa]

5:53‬‏ I loved how he say it 😂😂😂 Thx for this beautiful video, and I long for the day when you will become our brother

[@capricekruhy]

日本語は日本人に伝わる程度の発音を身に付けるのは比較的容易ですが日本人と同じように発音できる外国人はほとんど見た事がありません

[@alleinerfox8400]

それは他の言語でも割と当てはまることだよ。

[@kimberlysugiyama1958]

Believe me, many foreigners actually do speak native level Japanese language. We might not even notice they are foreigners

[@alleinerfox8400]

@@kimberlysugiyama1958 If "foreigner" here means someone whose native language is not Japanese, then I don’t agree with you. They might speak native level Japanese but they are differences, which can be noticed by natives. I will not deny the existence of foreigner who speaks completely as Japanese do, but those number would not be described as “many” as you wrote. Quite rare

[@JWG3110]

動画主も日本語の発音簡単って言ってるわりに発音もアクセントもやっぱり外国人だもんな。パックンとかもそう。ってことはやっぱり簡単じゃないんだろうな。

[@JWG3110]

@@alleinerfox8400「発音が簡単」とされているわりにはっていうコメントだと思うぞ。

[@dougules]

Reading Japanese is harder than Mandarin IMHO because Japanese has so many different readings for a given kanji character when Mandarin generally only has one or two.

[@SpinozicTroll]

Awesome explanation, as an English/French/Arabic speaker trying to learn Mandarin this definitely gives context and insight! I also tried Pimsleur in the past to try out Turkish and the fact that it's conversational focus I did notice significant leap in short amount of time. I might look into it again. I did notice how much easier it is to memorize Chinese characters once you break down the characters a little. For example the word Good has 2 characters (mother and child) in it. Which kind of suggests a mother with her children is a good thing. I also really appreciate that there is no headache whatsoever when it comes to grammar. Your Arabic pronunciation is pretty spot on considering you're able to speak other very different languages. Quiet the tongue twisting adventure!

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

Thanks so much, I really appreciate it! And great insights about breaking down Chinese characters 👍

[@eldancho2746]

Thanks Brian for the huge effort and yeah the standard Arabic is even hard for the native speakers

[@SVmathfarmer]

您好老师As a student of mandarin with a Chinese wife from Hubei Province， I endorse every point made about mandarin. 太好了！

[@tianalex6355]

中文难的不在于交流，而在于文化底蕴，各种成语、诗词、典故非常多，还有不同朝代的文言文。不过幸运的是，普通学习者不需要学这些

[@SVmathfarmer]

@@tianalex6355 正确✅

[@fleissigkarl3261]

但是从另一个维度看，如果我们把语言学习分成听说读写四个部分，汉语的不区分词汇间隔是个大麻烦，对读和听非常不友好

[@amarug]

I learned Japanese to fluency and Mandarin to broken-degree. First I was pleased as the grammar was easier than anything I've ever seen. But the tones got to me and I find the language extremely "brittle". Meaning if you mess up a few things, they quickly don't understand what you try to say. In now hundreds of hours of speaking Japanese with natives, I really can't remember a single instance where they asked me what I meant or clearly didn't understand what I said. Somehow Japanese seems more "robust" with respect to mistakes and on top of that, due to the culture of dropping subjects, objects and even verbs all the time, as you said, they have developed extremely good skills at guessing what you want to say. I found speaking with Japanese natives a really joyful and effortless experience from the start, even when I was still very bad at it. While with Chinese I often felt like we were truly sitting in different worlds. I have this hypothesis of "Inverse Relationship between linguistic robustness and grammatical complexity". It could be total BS and I am an engineer and know nothing about linguistics, but it seems to me that the harder the grammar, the more you can make mistakes without too many consequences. My native tongue is German, which is fairly difficult grammatically, for example it has these dreaded 4 "cases" that learners always fear. But in practical terms, I often speak with foreigners that make like 8 mistakes per sentence, wrong conjugations, and mess up like 85% of these cases etc, and still, communication is totally no issue, at times even totally fluent. Sure you don't sound native but we understand 99% of what you say perfectly. Chinese has easy grammar and I realized often if you mess up one little thing, the meaning is lost. I once forgot a "个" (which is pronounced "ge" more or less for those who don't know mandarin, so very very short) and the person didn't understand what I wanted to say. I quit Chinese, for a few reasons. I was frustrated with the tones, and also the horrible slurring and bumbling when they speak fast. Japanese often speak faster but apart from the odd 100 year old grand pa, you always hear everything they say clearly. Also I have no connection to China, I never go there, while I visit Japan often...

[@diegotejada55]

I haven’t done mandarin yet, but I think that’s what makes Japanese the worst for me, because I don’t think the grammar is complex like you said…it’s worse, it’s ambiguous 😱! Because so many things are dropped for seemingly no reason other than preference, it feels like it’s harder to be wrong, but also harder to be “right”, and my biggest problem in language-learning is that in general I care too much about correctness. I haven’t had this much of a problem in other languages, because after a certain point of studying and understanding I’m able to tell when something sounds “right” or “wrong”, but I feel like it’s comparatively so hard to tell if it’s correct in Japanese still

[@amarug]

@@diegotejada55 Yes, developing a "feel" for Japanese takes a long time. I have it to some limited degree now, but still very limited. We should get over ourselves and stop putting the language on a pedestal and spending every second in fear of making a mistake, or not sounding like a native. A few KZbinrs here have done HUGE damage to the Japanese learning community, especially beginners, by making videos where they for example "pretend to be beginners making mistakes" and still sound 10x better than most of all learners ever will in their life. In particular Dogen and "MattVsJapan". Dogen makes really funny content and seems like a nice and smart guy, but his obsession with sounding native-like and putting Japanese on SUCH an insane pedestal has caused a lot of damage. Language is a tool to communicate. Sure its always good to improve, but your goal should NOT be to sound like a perfect native, but being able to use the language such that you can have meaningful discussions and form new friendships and save your butt when you need to order food somewhere where no one speaks English. Spend more time to learn about the country and culture through the language, rather than trying to get flawless pronunciation. I really love Dogen but I hate him for also almost making me quit my Japanese studies 2 years ago. Glad I didn't and didn't care about their silly obsessions! Go for it!!! 💪🏻💪🏻

[@earlysda]

@@amarug "I hate him for also almost making me Japanese" He almost made you Japanese, you mean like with a citizenship and everything?

[@amarug]

@@earlysda 😂😂😂 I should not reply to comments half asleep. "for almost making me quit learning Japanese" ;)

[@yo2trader539]

​@@diegotejada55Language is culture itself, so it's not only about pitch accent, pronunciation, vocabulary, expressions, or grammar. And Japanese is a high-context culture, so a simple bow can mean excuse me, sorry, thank you, please, it's been a long time, or good morning, depending on circumstance. Naturally, natives don't need much effort to understand the context. Or more accurately, words are added to avoid miscommunication. Which is why we can understand each other at times without the subject, verb, or object. In KOKUGO class, we also do study about direct and indirect inferences since childhood so everyone is on the same page. Honestly, most foreigners are not really fluent in Japanese. They're good enough to order in a restaurant, but they cannot read or understand a novel or newspaper in Japan. They cannot make business proposals or read government documents. The KZbinrs you mentioned can read materials meant for natives, like the many foreign/international students who graduate from Japanese universities each year. They're not language beginners by any means. But they also have high expectations for themselves. We have always had people like Donald Keene and Alexander Vovin. They are the exception.

[@alishaheen8927]

والله بتوحشني يا صديقي وبتوحشني فديوهاتك. ماشاء الله عليك، انت ظاهرة تستحق الدراسة، عندك قدرة ملفتة للنظر ومبهرة على تعلّم اللغات، ورحابة صدر واتساع أفُق. ربنا يحفظك من كل سوء ❤😊🙏🌷

[@user-xk5kg5ks9e]

هوا صديقك لي الواقع؟

[@alishaheen8927]

@@user-xk5kg5ks9e لا للأسف، اتمنى أقابله يوما ما عشان أتعلم منه.🙏☺🌷

[@user-xk5kg5ks9e]

@@alishaheen8927 باذن الله قريب .

[@esraa7230]

good explain thnx brian

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

Thanks, Esraa!

[@AhmedMiad]

Your Egyptian accent is on point lol . You sound like the actors from the Egyptian movies who often add a bit of thickness on their accent.

[@user-dh9db8pe4p]

if you want to live without inconvenience in Japan and read Japanese book. you should know 3000 words about Japanese. but some Japanese can be read several ways. ex)生・・・140ways 日・・・205ways It is just two words.but as far as i know,you should know 500words like this. so I feel Japanese is the hardest language except for pronounce.

[@todesque]

Excellent video. Would love to know your opinion on which languages would constitute the next tier of difficulty below these three. Korean, Hungarian, Finnish, Polish, Russian, Navajo?

[@user-rw3bk6wp4m]

Korean

[@spartanbeast3575]

Makes me realize just how far I had to go in becoming fluent in spoken and standard Arabic, as well as dialect (Syrian dialect btw). And now I'm learning Japanese. Sentence structure is easy once you catch on to it, and context and dropped words or particles likewise. It just takes a lot of listening, and it's not quite as hard once you get used to it. At this point the only thing that still remains challenging is kanji. I learn using the acquisition learning method, so naturally that would mean I only learn the kanji that I need, when I need them, hence I only know about 15-20 kanji so far.

[@qarionlineeducation]

For your information bro Arabic pronunciation is very very delicate and there can be thousands of mistakes that are not noticed by English speakers 🎉

[@user-qq1zf9jc7p]

Im struggeling more with japanese reading than chinese reading. Because japanese kanji can be pronounced in MANY different ways.

[@Komatik_]

Chinese phonetic components also have more consistency to them than Japanese ones. They're still just hints, but they work better.

[@Iamdonewithhere]

As a korean, japanese and chinese are easier than english to understand. I can understand some words without knowing how to pronounce. But arabic is very hard to me. I can't find learning source for beginners and I can't find how to start to learn. And japanese and chinese are more demanded than arabic. Maybe they are spoken neighbor country. Your video is impressive - 最高!

[@ahmetyasar4908]

Al Arabiyyatu Bayna Yadayk is a very good source for beginners. but the books is fully in Arabic so you should find someone to teach you in real lfe or from youtube videos. İf you cant find someone that does korean to arabic may be you can find english to arabic. or you may simply use a dictionary to go through the book

[@Komatik_]

The difficulty of a new language depends on what language you know before. Korean and Japanese have a lot of Chinese loanwords, so you'll know familiar ones from that. Being fluent in Korean grammar also spares you from the mindfuck of trying to learn Japanese or Korean word order, which is difficult for a Westerner. To most of us, there are very few shared words, the sentence structure is really strange, and then there are characters as an additional headache unless you choose to study Korean.

[@thecatplayer9684]

11:51 i like how you said bye in all 3

[@user-vb7yz8qf2v]

Oh my God, I thought you spoke Arabic, but this is amazing, even if you just try🎉🎉

[@dr-karimkhater6507]

As an Arabic guy i learnt Chinese and i think Arabic is the hardest language ever! Many dialects and fusha To be professional you have to study all of them not only fusha or one dialect. It's really a big challenge to be like a native man !

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

It’s definitely a challenge!

[@marieljackman1850]

There are over 6000 languages on the planet earth. Arabic the hardest language in the world? Is that even something that you can measure? Try Georgian , euskera , Navajo … and so many other languages

[@mina-bh8tp]

​​@@marieljackman1850​​ Arabic is the hardest according to so many studies and many linguistics, it contains more than 12 millions word Most of languages that you mentioned don't have more than 500,000 words Even we native speakers struggle with the standard Arabic and all it's grammar rules.

[@Abdullah_09090]

ان شاء الله

[@narjessesse2479]

We can speak all the languages ​​of the world, so Arabic is difficult because it enables you to use all the letter sounds

[@HeyJD123]

I'd say pronunciations aren't part of how hard a language is. It can be hard at the start, but after a few months, pronunciation isn't a blocker for learning. Instead, I'd replace it with "available language content". Native indigenous languages are some of the hardest because there's no available learning content. Similar to chinese. Compared to Japanese, it has a huge amount of content. They make so many interesting shows that it makes it easy. Also, why so many people can learn English. There's so much English content out there it makes it easy.

[@theodiscusgaming3909]

Thanks for saying what I wanted to say. "Similar to chinese" If by Chinese you mean Mandarin then not at all. Mandarin has a huge amount of resources and content online.

[@HeyJD123]

@theodiscusgaming3909 They have content but nothing too interesting or at different levels of learning. Most locals watch content from abroad with translation. They have a decent amount of songs, but tv shows and movies are mostly bollywood tier quality... not for everyone. And there's very little variation in their content, seen one seen them all. Along with that, finding the content on western internet like youtube is difficult and subtitles too. Compared with Spanish or Japanese it is night and day differences

[@monkut]

Nice video! After mentioning the difference in counters in Arabic, I thought you'd mention the plethora of Japanese counters.

[@-A_C-]

3:00 لما اتعلمت الحروف العربيه هل كان حرف ال ض صعب بما انه مش موجود في اي لغه تانيه؟ + ايه اللغات اللي بتتكلمها+ امتى بدات تتعلم لغه كان عندك كم سنه

[@mahdikaraki3833]

Hello dear i watch your video i start learning enlish 6 months ago and i need two other months to end this jerny . i found that english exsactly so so so easy .. i'm native arabic i love your video❤❤❤🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@user-tz8zi7uo9z]

Am an arab I speak English fluent I can help u bro ...

[@mahdikaraki3833]

@@user-tz8zi7uo9z of course i need your help if we can practice and improve our skill

[@mahdikaraki3833]

@@user-tz8zi7uo9z If you want whatsup well be good?

[@mahdikaraki3833]

@@user-tz8zi7uo9z 🙆‍♀️❤️❤️

[@abadalrhmazkoo922]

What a beautiful comparison among these languages, as Arabic is my mother tongue, I can say your Arabic pronunciation is really Excellent. I always think of the difficulty of learning the Asian languages as they seem to me, are very complicated languages, especially in writing! Thanks from my ❤️ for this amazing video!

[@fabianaguilar6288]

You should do another video comparing these 3 languages with Hungarian, Basque, and Navajo

[@Medecineourien]

Très bonne vidéo

[@i0lion851]

جزاك الله خيرا يا اخي ❤

[@kaldqallarkho5238]

What akhi, you ishak oglu ishak?

[@ibrahem_x564]

Thanks to the beautiful video. Arabic native was here 🇵🇸

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@MuhammadHasanKhanQureshi]

My best teacher for you ❤❤❤

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

Thank you, Muhammad!

[@yehia4512]

في حاجة غلط في الانجليزي يا باشا بس لا مؤاخذة ما تنفعش العنترية في تعلم اللغة لازم تبقى على المظبوط

[@user-nk2vu1mw2z]

you the best.. im from egypt.. hope u enjoyed here

[@coolbrotherf127]

As an English speaker Arabic is the hardest for me out of the 3. The language itself is very different and they have about a million dialects that change in every other city. At least with Mandarin and Japanese, the dialects are usually not quite as extremely different. Plus I've actually studied Japanese for a while so I know it's not too bad.

[@Ritanoheya]

私は日本人です。日本には方言が多くあり日本人でも聞き取れないものもあります。しかし、最近は方言も統一され始め話せる人が居なくなってきました（ ; ; ）寂しい。 ↓難しい日本語（日本人が使う友達とのチャットのやり取りの文章です） やほ　 ん？ おけ り マ？ やば がち？ ↑ このような言葉の意味が分かったらあなたは神です！ 我神ノ子力宿←日本人が中国語を真似て漢字だけを使い話して何とか意味が通じる話し方です。これの意味は（私は神の子、力を宿している）と予想して読みます。おふざけですけどw

[@coolbrotherf127]

@@Ritanoheya 私は東京弁しか知らない。 もし日本に住むことがあれば、もっといろいろな方言を勉強したいです。

[@user-js7vf3md2u]

日本語めっちゃ上手​@@coolbrotherf127

[@Jaafar34]

as an arabic speaker i agree with you in that point some times We actually dont understand each other but after some times you will be better in the language

[@user-tu1pg5ly6h]

日本語の方言は同じ日本人でもわからないほど極端に違うので、外国人が理解するのは非常に困難だと思いますよ 実際のところ、同じ日本人どころか同じ地域の人でさえ年齢に差があるとわかりません 若者と老人の年齢差どころか、若者とおじさんの年齢差ですら方言だと会話できないほどです

[@A8HH387]

10:00 10 out of 10 for standard Arabic I totally agree with you here 🤞😅 Love you from Syria ❤️

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

Thank you so much!

[@user-ny1wg3tf4k]

bro ur videos is so fun i love it

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

Thanks a lot!

[@user-ny1wg3tf4k]

@@BrianWilesLanguages Most welcome ♥

[@Rashaddropemoff]

You start smiling and it feels like it's bringing out a different Brian the moment Arabic comes out haha!

[@sevancan3294]

Something crucial is ignored in this video; in Japanese, every kanji has different pronunciations and meanings, at least two and up to over 100 for each, which I believe makes reading Japanese 50 out of 10. eg. a kanji “生” has 158 ways to read and you have to figure out based on context.

[@user-do8mg1ds1e]

日本人だけど生って漢字に158通りの読み方があるの初めて知ったわw

[@user-tu1pg5ly6h]

「生」の読み方は、基本的には12通りほどです 貴方の仰る通り特殊な読み方を加えればかなりの数になりますが、それは日本人でもほとんどの人たちが読めないので大丈夫ですよ

[@sevancan3294]

インパクト重視で158という数字を出しましたが、たしかにこれは特殊な読み方も無理矢理かき集めまくっての数なので、ここで出すのはややアンフェアだったかもですね笑。とは言え基本的な読み方が12通りというだけでも相当トリッキーですが...

[@user-tu1pg5ly6h]

@@sevancan3294 当の日本人ですら難しいと思ってるのに (他の言語と比べてとかではなく) 動画やコメントで「日本語は簡単だよ」なニュアンス含めて言われたら、そら120通り出してムキにもなりゃすよ！(笑)

[@user-ou8mj8wj8w]

この3つ中じゃアラビア語が難しい様に思えます。いつか学んでみたいですね。 漢字がある中国語は日本人にとっては学びやすい言語に入ります。発音が難しいですが文法はかなり単純明快。日本語よりも簡単だと思います。個人的には英語よりも学習し易いと思いました。 因みに日本語では単語や文脈で一つの漢字に読み方が複数ある事も補足して下さい。地名や当て字など日本人ですら正しく読めない漢字もありますからね😂

[@frankezeala-vi9mb]

はい と 子日和

[@AbDuLlAh-cf5vb]

I agree with you about Arabic, even for native speakers is hard to learn, I'm a native speaker of Arabic and I can make sure that I don't have enough knowledge about Arabic grammar. btw: I'm a postgraduate student Thank you Brian and keep going 🎉

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

I appreciate that, thank you 👍

[@HHMMZZAA]

أتوقع بسبب تحمسنا لدراسة لغات أخرى على حساب اللغة العربية.

[@user-ws3wn9wk2i]

الحمدلله عندنا يتم تدريسنا عنها وعن قواعدها بعدها ندرس احكام القرآن،

[@kamela_yunisa]

I was only learning English and Mandarin, English because this is an international language and Mandarin because many people say it's hard(I felt challenged haha) but now I'm focusing on learning English and Modern Standard Arabic first because I want to get a job in Dubai.😙

[@MrBebobbc]

معلومات عظيمة وقيمة الف شكر ♥️

[@itamerju]

I'm a Japanese native speaker. I think Japanese is EXTREMELY difficult for English speaker. Japanese and English is too different to learn each other. Even though this fact, I have to learn English in school... :( P.S. 日本語学習者の皆さん、日本語の勉強頑張ってくださいね！陰ながら応援しています。

[@IIExhibitAII]

bro you said good morning fantastically hahah. you sound natural..

[@ItzSwiftyBoy_Gaming]

Can you make a video on Classical Arabic?

[@Rawan-jr9ov]

I love watching you 😊

[@akram9353]

براين لاحظت هذا الشيء في أكثر من فديو لك ، عندك مشكلة في نطق حرف الحاء للتنبيه لا أكثر

[@Fnyanya]

هههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههه أنت قاعدة تلمسين جرحة 😂

[@han-du5ll]

Your Mandarin has a VERY STRONG Bejing accent! That's genuinely fun to hear a foreigner to talk like that. Btw, have you ever lived there

[@ibrahimkordy7710]

I want to know how you learn all of these languages you are phenomenon ❤

[@user-sj7xx3xb4z]

The video is great. Keep it up. The Korean language is also beautiful and easy ✨🥀

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

Many thanks- I would love to learn Korean one day…

[@Chan_Chal_Chit_1]

@@BrianWilesLanguages - Actually my first ( native ) language is Hindi . My second language that I learmed is English. It was in schools Subject curriculum . And now I'm learning Korean for the past 1 year and lemme tell you one thing . Korean seems exceptionally hard to me ...

[@maryam3weeda257]

Really?? I wanna learn it but I'm so scared

[@Chan_Chal_Chit_1]

@@maryam3weeda257 what's your native language... If I may ask ???

[@maryam3weeda257]

@@Chan_Chal_Chit_1 Arabic

[@youssefrabiee5033]

اللغة العربية الفصحى حتى العرب الحاليون لا يتحدثون بها جيدا لذا من الطبيعي أن تكون في هذا المركز لكن علمك بذلك وقدرتك على فهم هذه القواعد هو الأكثر إذهالا، أرجو زيارتك مجددا لمصر😊🤍

[@SSS_SWORD]

طيب انا مبتعلمش فصحي لاكن بفهمها عادي وكل العرب بيفهموها ف مش محتاج غير تتعلم الفصحي لو انت اجنبي

[@Fnyanya]

@@SSS_SWORDبالضبط هدا الي اريد اوصلة للعالم الي تريد تتعلم عربي يروحون ويتعلمون لهجة معينه ثم يتورطون باللهجات الاخرى مايعرفون أنه لو تعلموا الفصحى الكل رايح يفهمهم وهم راح يفهموا الكل

[@todoshirikato]

Sir I just watche your video for the first time ( means shame on me😂😂 ). But I gotta tell you. Your expressions are quite entertaining.😂😂😂😂

[@Sam-ce6kf]

بما إنك من نيويورك، أيه رأيك تعمل فيديو عن أحداث 11 من سبتمبر؟

[@Lack.of.Zigzag.2]

I have learned Arabic(2) and Japanese(4). Japanese is harder as a native bengali.

[@Zyad303]

حسنا انا اريد ان اقول شيء مهم جدا جدا جدا جدا ارى انك قصرت في موضوع الاعراب في اللغه العربيه لانه صعب جدا جدا وكلما تتعمق فيه سيصبح اصعب وهو فعليا وبدون مبالغه عباره عن شجره متفرعه ليس لها نهايه كلما تغوص فيها تزداد جذوعها وافراعها هي حقا شيء مجنون جدا هي عباره عن محيط ليس له نهايه

[@bahamansour3178]

Bryan is simply a phenomenal

[@djanefernandes7803]

I am studying mandarim and in mu opinion read is easier than the other things you mentioned. Fortunately I have a good memory and with a little practice is possible to read several texts, but speaking isn't so easy. As a portuguese speaker, the strict sentence order is mandarin is a big problem. Everything has to be in specific order.

[@user-xk5kg5ks9e]

ادينا قلب يواد

[@user-iw7lz9hu5s]

😂😂😂

[@user-xk5kg5ks9e]

@@user-iw7lz9hu5s 😂🙆🏻‍♀️

[@AlaaLola-fx5fx]

هههه حظك

[@aimking8402]

Bro speaking Jaddawi

[@EggPotionFilms]

Id actually say japanese is pretty easy lol. Im styding for GCSE and its pretty simple to understand. Especially thegrammar. Theres nothing complicated! Also the particles mainly usdd are just wa for subject, wo for object, to for person/ listing, de for place/ "means of", ni for time and also places, and no for posession. There's more but these are the straightforward ones ive learnt. Oh and the grammar is super simple. The sentence just states simple facts and the particles help divide these little snippets of information 私は水曜日に学校で練習をしました I, did, practice, at school, last Tuesday

[@user-wd9wr6qv2n]

私は水曜日に学校で練習をしました I practiced at school on Wednesday

[@EggPotionFilms]

@@user-wd9wr6qv2n thanks, didn't notice the mistake. But yes, I just translated it slightly differently to break everything down to it's core meaning (します as in "do", and 練習 as in "practice". Mash them together and you get "do practice", or just "practice")

[@user-qb3ny8tl5d]

I'm Japanese. I think mostly Japanese people say this sentence as this way, 水曜日に学校で練習しました。Your sentence is correct, but it sounds too properly like making a speech or AI speaking. Well I guess you already know what I wanna mean though, we don't say usually 私は, and also we don't say を. I would say it's very difficult for Japanese leaner to omit particle or not

[@EggPotionFilms]

@@user-qb3ny8tl5d I do understand you can just ignore saying 私は。。。because the subject is assumed. But didn't know you can ignore particles. Anyways thanks for extra knowledge

[@omerahmed5288]

i like how u easily switch between them.

[@thufirck6734]

As someone who's been learning mandarin for a few months, I think it's definitely not the hardest language. Once you get over the speed bump of tones it really is a question of memorisation and immersion. Arabic, with its intense grammar and lack of centralisation seems by far the hardest. Honorable mention to Navajo. From what i've heard it's just as hard as Arabic and good luck finding resources for that..

[@user-zz6tu1df8k]

انا بتعلم ياباني من كام شهر ولاحظت تقدم كبير في بعض الأجزاء زي الكتابه والقراءة والنطق وبسبب وفرة مصادر التعلم باللغه الانجليزيه ده بيقدم مساعده في تطوير اللغه الانجليزيه اتمنى تعمل فيديو عن ازاي نتعلم اللغه اليابانيه خاصة الكانجى ‏والقواعد

[@mrpopcorn700]

يا ابن اللهيبة تتعلم من ورانا

[@Ayyub23]

I learnt Arabic from cartoons without any translate or a hellp and it's the easiest language for me 🗿

[@aminemhd3525]

u already Arab

[@Ayyub23]

@@aminemhd3525 brother im not Arab that what i mean I'm not Arab and learnt without any help

[@aminemhd3525]

@@Ayyub23 That's great happy for you

[@Ayyub23]

@@aminemhd3525 thanks for your understanding and not being a racist. I love all my Muslim brothers

[@aminemhd3525]

@@Ayyub23 Same thing ❤️‍🩹, And I'm sorry i just read the name i thought ayub is an Arab name that's why

[@user-ig1kc4pb9d]

You are very good I'm from Egypt and I can speak English but don't very well

[@Kar-li3eb]

Brian, can you give me advice on how to learn Japanese?

[@noufiialnuaimi9645]

شكرا جزيلا على الفيديو الأكثر من رائع. 私は日本人と結婚してるアラブ人です、まだ日本語を勉強しています。 我很喜欢中文、谢谢你🙏

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

شكرًا ليكي!

[@Exocrotic-yn2ck]

Really you are married to a japanese?

[@noufiialnuaimi9645]

@@Exocrotic-yn2ckyes 😊

[@shield1485]

The real hardest language to learn is for sure one that's spoken by almost nobody and the planet. In a more general way I think a lot of niche African countries that are spoken only in very poor countries might be even harder than Mandarin, Japanese or Arabic because they're almost nonexistent in the internet and living. It's sort of a "side answer" to the actual debate so I don't think I'm absolutely right. However it's still good to keep in mind that the lack of resources might be actually an important criteria to consider.

[@Rationalific]

That's true. And there are other Chinese languages besides Mandarin and Cantonese that are much less well known and don't have many resources. So those would be harder to learn than Mandarin when you take into account all of the ways you can access Mandarin content compared to other content. A large part of difficulty level is access to resources.

[@trcemalemretr]

Yes man ! Latin is one of the hardest language to learn . Cuz no fucking one speaks it any more 😂

[@theodiscusgaming3909]

​@@trcemalemretr There are a *lot* of free resources and texts available to learn Latin

[@skeletorthenotgamer]

A lot of Native American languages are hard for this reason. There's very few teachers of them, or very few speakers in general for some, and they tend to have weird grammar, and a lot of them don't have actual written forms

[@pathetic108]

Grat job

[@LowlierThanThow]

As a native English speaker (who also speaks Urdu and Hindu fluently), I have been a student of Arabic for 20 years. I am now an Arabic teacher at high school. Arabic is difficult because the level of difficulty keeps increasing if you want to get into the incredibly rich cultural and religious Arabic literature. I think it will take my entire lifetime to reach a good level. I have met many students who have learned much faster than me, they seem to have be especially gifted.

[@israsayed]

I was surprised when you said Japanese grammar was difficult! As an Arabic speaker I always found it to be one of the easiest ones. I think that's because in Arabic, the sentence can be structured in different ways and one of them is similar to the way Japanese sentences are structured. For example, here is different ways I can say that "Ahmed went to class": أحمد ذهب إلي الفصل ذهب أحمد إلي الفصل إلي الفصل ذهب أحمد What really matters isn't that these are just grammatically correct, but that they also sound natural. When I started learning Japanese, the grammar was a piece of cake, it's the Kanji bit that put me off. Chinese on the other hand, is something I won't even dare touch, the tonal way of speaking is something I will never be able to do.

[@tomatodo375]

I'm Japanese. He showed 10:07 that how opposite are the sentence constructions between Japanese and English. That's also why we Japanese are quite bad at mastering English. Japanese are actually similar to Turkey language (a.k.a agglutinative languages). These sentence constructions are not so strict but very flexible because of the marker-particles which defines the word's function in the sentence so we can shuffle the order. However, this grammar concept is quite alien to the English's. The only strict thing in English is word's positions in the sentence. The function of the word is defined by its positions, not by conjugations or particles. So, sometimes we can't understand an English sentence even though we know every single word in it.

[@israsayed]

@tomatodo375 Ohhh, yes, exactly! That makes sense. In Arabic if a word is shuffled around that won't affect it in most cases, that similarity is really a great assist if an Arabic speaking person wants to learn Japanese. I wonder if Japanese would find learning Arabic to be less difficult than English🧐 This list should be taken with a grain of salt because it's from the perspective of an English speaker. I bet the list would change from place to place. The most challenging part in standard Arabic is very much what he described, different tenses of the same verb have varying different forms, which is similar to Japanese in a way, but in this case, more variables are taken into account such as gender, number, and the basic form of verb so the rules for how they convert can quickly get very complicated, hence why standard Arabic is so difficult. There are things that I would recommend for new learners to skip at first lol, like the different markings in the word ( َ ,ً ,ُ ,ِ ,ٍ ,ّ ,ٌ ), after mastering the basics they can go back to try to learning these (most natives are bad at accurately assigning them so it's fine really)

[@MOHAMAXD]

كلمتان ثقيلتان في الميزان خفيفتان على اللسان حبيبتان إلى الرحمن : "سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله العظيم"❤❤

[@haifenglang8376]

A masterpiece video! Btw, I think Mandarin would be very easy to learn if the aim is only the basic communications (around B1 level).

[@BrianWilesLanguages]

Thank you very much!

[@ziadsaadawi]

that was accurate 😄