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Diego Simão Posted 19 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Which language is most difficult language for people to learn?

0 I think it is russian. My father has a friend who learns russian. He's perspective is: russian is the most difficult language for him to learn. And he has learnt german and espanhol. 0-
  

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0 It is difficult to say, I'd say impossible. I think it depends on your first language. I mean, it is probably diffucult for an American to learn Spanish, but I think it's would be very easy for an Italian.

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  • 0 It is difficult to say, I'd say impossible.
  • I think it depends on your first language.
  • I mean, it is probably diffucult for an American to learn Spanish, but I think it's would be very easy for an Italian.
  • 02br 02br 00It also depends on the level you want to reach.
  • It is definitely very easy to start to learn English and reach an pre-intermediate level, but reaching a very advanced level (high scores on TOEFL, for example) is another matter.
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0 It is difficult to say, I'd say impossible. I think it depends on your first language. I mean, it is probably diffucult for an American to learn Spanish, but I think it's would be very easy for an Italian. So it'a all relative, in the end.02br
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00But if you want to consider all major languages from a global point of view, English is definitely the easiest to learn, and
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01cite10Kooyeen12cite10So I don't know how complicated the other languages are, we should ask someone who knows most major languages very well.12br
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00Knowing the major languages isn't enough. What makes you think only a major language can be difficult? Est
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01cite10Cool Breeze12cite10Knowing the major languages isn't enough. What makes you think only a major language can be difficult?12br
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00well, yeah, if you really want to take account of every language, then how are we supposed to find an answer? In that case it would be a
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0 I read somewhere that Mario Pei, the linguist, tried to learn a different language every year. He supposedly claimed that Vietnamese was the most difficult.02br
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00One language each year..that's amazing!:) 0-
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00There's a joke about a Finnish professor who spoke nine languages. He took a holiday in Czechoslovakia and when he returned he said: "The Czech language sure is hard! I spent two weeks in Prague and didn't learn it." I think this proves the language is at least somewhat difficult. 05002br
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01cite10Kooyeen12cite10It also depends on the level you want to reach. It is definitely very easy to start to learn English and reach an pre-intermediate level, but reaching a very advanced level (high scores on TOEFL, for example) is another matter.12br
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00I find English an easy language to learn and speak, but an advanced level requires hard work. I think there's no better way than to study a language in its native country. Japanese (I read) is so difficult, any native Japanese couldn't memorize all the alphabets of his/her language!! (5000 letters as I recalled) unbelievable05000 it's also said t
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0 Japanese does not have an alphabet, it has 05000. It is complicated, but Japanese children can master it, so it is not impossible.02br
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00There is no way to measure whether a language is more difficult to learn without looking at it from the perspective of the learner's native language. It is easier to learn a second language if that language is similar in some w
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0Useful site, thank you.02br
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00I'd add that Persians could master Arabic as well.0-
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