Cookiesandcream Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 What is the hardest language that you have tried to learn? Why was it hard for you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrh2 Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 I think any language that is not your own is a hard language to learn as it is all new to you. I think the hardest thing about new languages is remembering them, I often learn new words and phrases and at the time I know them but if I don't have a chance to continue practicing with them I forget them and have to start learning them again. I wish there was a way that when you learn something it stays there without practicing constantly but it doesn't work that way. Whenever I am busy and stop learning a language for a while when I return it takes a long time to get back into it and remember what it was you learnt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmanuel Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 They're all difficult to learn, but especially so if they belong to a different root language. Learning a latin-based language is easier if you already speak one, for instance. Learning Chinese must be incredibly hard for Westerners because of the difference in sentence structure. It's almost an entirely different way of thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linguetronix Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 but especially so if they belong to a different root languageI think he hit the nail on the head there. For the reasons stated, I find Japanese much tougher to learn than Spanish and French. Spanish, French and English also share a lot of words and roots, so that makes it easier.Though, I must mention that, for some reason, I find Kannada very tough to learn, even though it shares similar roots as my mother-tongue, Malayalam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffyducky Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Strangely, I've found Japanese hardest for me to learn, even though my mother tongue is Chinese and I'm decent at it. The squigglies of hiragana just aren't easily memorizable to me, maybe it's just because I'm too old and I don't learn stuff that easily anymore, like all the other languages I learned since I was a kid. :C Sentence structure and vocab are pretty easy to pick up and store in the word bank, and I can speak passably, but I just can't write the words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
botmaker Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 I think Chinese is the hardest. It has the most characters and all of them look the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surrender2air Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 Spanish because of the verb conjugations. I can never remember them so I only really sound good in the present tense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelicagapit Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 In my opinion, I think Mandarin and French are the hardest languages, but who knows? There are probably many languages that I haven't even heard of, but from the ones I know, it's Mandarin and French.They seem to be so complex, and I'd really have difficulty attending these kinds of language classes.Good question! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apexa1 Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 Japanese is the hardest to me, I've only tried french and Japanese though and it's the harder between the two. So I don't really have much experience to make a better call but yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daimashin Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 The Chinese language was the hardest for me mainly because of the writing aspect. I have no issues reading or speaking Chinese but writing always gets to me. It was hard then and it's still hard now even though it's not as hard anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis Hard Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 French was IMO the hardest language I've ever had to learn [or attempted to, TBH]. The reason I found it difficult was that I had a negative attitude and since it was mandatory to learn French in the school I studied in, you just submit to the rules even if you hated what you were doing. . .Attitude has more to do with how difficult a language appears to be [to you]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonyi Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 Honestly a language is term hard depending on the learner. While a language may seem hard to one, it is easy to another person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 From what I've heard, Japanese is the hardest language. You need to learn a new alphabet and the grammar is very difficult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericdlee Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 As far as I know the Chinese is the most difficult language to learn. There are too many characters(not words) to memorize. And it has 4 accents to be used...In my case, I couldn't even pronunciation some of the words.. just my case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myreallife85 Posted February 24, 2014 Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 It's funny to think about it and find that my native language is the hardest for me; learning Arabic of writing and reading is not a big deal, but the hardest is of deep learning, it's not easy.For me, I feel excited when I learn languages. It's like a hobby for me. :grin: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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