<p>What do you think is the hardest language to learn in this regard? Don’t say Latin please, hence the ALIVE adjective. </p>
<p>I have to say, from beginner’s experience, German.</p>
<p>Navajo .</p>
<p>Really? Native Americans had Latin script even before the Age of Exploration? Or am I way off and thinking of something else?</p>
<p>Probably English.</p>
<p>eh, I probably should have put FOR YOU, since a native English speaker has an easier time than most other people.</p>
<p>chinese. I tried learning one sentence and messed up on every word</p>
<p>Kind of to back up the Navajo pick, it was the “Wind Talkers” of WWII code that none of the Axis powers could ever decode.</p>
<p>^^yeah the axis never cracked it cuz they never heard the language before since navajo ppl don’t live in europe/asia, not because its hard to learn</p>
<p>Yes, but it’s a language, not a code. Most languages tend to follow certain rules that can easily be cracked when messages are intercepted, followed by certain events.</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, how did you try to learn Chinese? How long was the attempt? When you say messed up on every word, do you mean the arrangement of the words, the tone of the character, or just plain used the wrong word?</p>
<p>lol…i heard my chinese friend speak chinese with her parents. i was curios and asked her to teach me couple of sentences…she tried to get me to say the basic sentences like my name is x, i live in y, i am z years old…it was funny cuz after a half-hour, we still didn’t get through how to tell my age in chinese…their accent is complex, which is what i messed up on most…that was like a week ago and i still can’t remember how to say any of those sentences in chinese</p>
<p>well i know three languages - english, 2 languages from india, and learning spanish…out of all of them, i found chinese very difficult…</p>
<p>Hmm. See, that’s a very crude way to learn a language as complex sounding as Chinese is. I don’t expect anyone who speaks a language without tones to be able to reproduce the tones themselves.
However, the structure of Chinese grammar is relatively simple.</p>
<p>Which Indian languages do you speak? I’ve always wanted to learn Sanskrit, but that’s not translated completely into English yet. -_-</p>
<p>German is very easy to learn, especially if English is your first language. That’s like growing up speaking Portuguese and having difficulty learning Spanish, kinda odd.</p>
<p>Chinese isn’t hard. The only “hard” part about it is the tones. It isn’t hard if you’re surrounded by it everyday.</p>
<p>I would say English is the hardest language. It has SO many irregular conjugations, no clear pronounciation, and just odd in general.</p>
<p>That and English slang is nearly impossible to learn.</p>
<p>me.duh:</p>
<p>I speak hindi/telugu…sanskrit is the holy language, which most indian ppl don’t know. its like latin, but only priests in hindu temples can recite the ancient language.</p>
<p>do they seriously have a lot of ways to say i love u in hindi???
Chinese isnt hard…its just different…spanish is hard - - i cant say the rr sound - -</p>
<p>Spanish pronunciation is so EASY…everything is right there to pronounce!</p>
<p>English is really hard with lots of rules to pronounce, and a lot of curve balls.</p>
<p>Navajo I agree with. Also, from what I’ve heard, Finnish and Hungarian are very difficult for English speakers.</p>
<p>Greek? really, this is a total shot in the dark.</p>
<p>Spanish is either hard to pronounce or easy to pronounce; it’s fairly easy for me because I grew up with parents who spoke 3 languages each and were always code-switching. None of those languages was Spanish (actually: English/French/Swedish and English/French/German respectively) but I guess I was just used to different languages. I technically speak English, French, and Spanish, but I can’t pronounce French for the life of me, but that’s because my pallate is irregularly-shaped. The rr thing is tricky and very subtle, but other than that Spanish is fairly easy to learn (latin-based, many congnates, etc.) except all the different verb tenses; very few helping verbs!</p>
<p>I would expect the hardest languages to learn (for an English-speaker) are Chinese and Finnish simply because they are SO different - ie, not latin or germanic.</p>