I wonder, is English the hardest language to learn out of all languages?

[UpAndComing]

Seeing native Spanish speakers making strides learning English like


Is English the hardest to learn? I remember some of my non-Native English speaking friends told me English is alot like speaking backwards in some ways

 

[Address_Unknown]

The English language, fundamentally is confusing on paper, so the majority of fluent non native speakers gain firm footholds watching established media rather than doing the theory on it, so alot of interaction and immersion through entertainment strengthens that grasp.​

 

[hood b. goode]

English is not even top 10

Chinese
Russian
German
Arabic

All way harder

 

[Taco]

Vietnamese seems harder than English. The pronunciations are very subtle, but are huge cause there are so many words spelled the same, but the accent changes based on the context.

 

[Batsute]

Japanese by far.

English & Spanish use the SVO while Japanese band a few use the SOV, so it’s easier for the Spanish to grasp sentence structure and verb conjugation.

 

[UpAndComing]

English is not even top 10

Chinese
Russian
German
Arabic

All way harder

Both Mandarin and Cantonese?

 

[Batsute]

Vietnamese seems harder than English. The pronunciations are very subtle, but are huge cause there are so many words spelt the same, but the accent changes based on the context.

Chinese too with so much of that shyt being tonal one word can mean so many fukkin different thing.

 

[Womb Raider]

fukk no, try learning languages with symbols rather than letters

shyt Vietnamese is hard cuz like someone else said pronunciations are subtle but significant…I could never.

 

[Arizax2]

Japanese by far.

English & Spanish use the SVO while Japanese band a few use the SOV, so it’s easier for the Spanish to grasp sentence structure and verb conjugation.

As someone that learned how to read and write Japanese in my teens, I can say it's not as hard as most of you folks think....I lost most of it at this point of my age but I was taught by an amazing teacher who happened to also be black.

 

[Mandarin Duck]

I've heard that English is considered medium as far as difficulty to learn. Not the hardest but not the easiest.

Given the fact that the English language takes from so many other languages I can see the difficulty in learning it.

 

[3rdWorld]

English is not even top 10

Chinese
Russian
German
Arabic

All way harder

No.
None of the above.

The hardest language to learn is a Turkish language I think. If you haven't learned it by 8 you'll never get it.

 

[Batsute]

As someone that learned how to read and write Japanese in my teens, I can say it's not as hard as most of you folks think....I lost most of it at this point of my age but I was taught by an amazing teacher who happened to also be black.

In your teens that’s a world of difference post 25 once that grey matter stops growing. I’m still studying it and onyomi and kunyomi are still a bytch as well as all the verb stems.

You even said it yourself you damn near lost it all. Hell I was in a group chat and a friend said something in Japanese and I asked what’s nomu mean.

 

[Ya Sinning Mane]

to others outside of us
Yea

So many words can mean different things,outside its original meaning

Look at rap for example

 

[Buddy]

The English language, fundamentally is confusing on paper, so the majority of fluent non native speakers gain firm footholds watching established media rather than doing the theory on it, so alot of interaction and immersion through entertainment strengthens that grasp.​

I used to break similar examples down years back and had no idea Gallagher been said it

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

No.
None of the above.

The hardest language to learn is a Turkish language I think. If you haven't learned it by 8 you'll never get it.

I thought it was Icelandic, personally. How the FUKK do you pronounce this shyt....

Hvannadalshnjúkur

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