What are the 10 hardest/easiest languages of the world?
>hardest
chinese
>easiest
english
>>52676699
>hardest
language of the crows
>easiest
pick any human language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nruCZGpyHqg
>hardest
muh dick
>easiest
ur mum
>>52676699
>hardest
Vietnamese, it's my language and i fucked it up some time.
>easiest
English
>>52676699
Finnish and Estonian are up there in the hardest category.
English and Japanese are down there in the easiest category.
this is obviously not an exact science
>>52676699
>Easiest
Esperanto
>Hardest
Polish
>>52676699
You speak German, I guess.
So the easiest ones will be English, Afrikaans, Dutch and Frisian.
The hardest? Japanese probably.
>hardest
English
>easiest
Korean
Hardest is the Native American language from Mexico which has only 1 speaker who is a recluse and doesn't want to talk.
>>52676839
Birds are amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxoCuRuHlt8
>>52677266
no, the story goes like this:
theres 2 old men, 1 stole the wife from the other and they hate eachother now
>>52676986
>Japanese
Is Japanese really easy?
>>52677387
and then they both got beheaded
the story of mexico
>>52677424
yep. it's just slapping syllables together with monotonic sound, literally zero pronunciation effort
the only hard things by the looks of it is the writing
>hardest Bengali
>easiest English
>>52676699
>autists having manners
>>52677266
source?
>>52677284
If they had hands they'd probably be number 2 behind people. Even now they have it pretty good. I'd seriously consider trading hands for wings.
English pronunciation and spelling is actually harder than many other languages (e.g. Spanish, Italian), but its grammar is very simple since it has no cases and no grammatical gender. Italian is probably one of the most phonetic languages there is, while English is without a doubt one of the least phonetic languages.
Which languages are hard or easy is obviously very subjective, since it depends on what your native language is.
>>52677727
then you could flap, but could you fap?
t. asker of eternal questions
>>52676699
afrikaans is by far the easiest language to learn as it is the most modern of spoken languages.
>>52677751
However, I might add that Italian conjugation is a complete nightmare, since it has a zillion different tenses and moods. English conjugation in comparison is very simple.
Easiest is probably korean or english
Hardest is finnish
>>52677869
>afrikaans is by far the easiest language to learn as it is the most modern of spoken languages.
It's also basically Dutch for retards, so that's no surprise.
>>52677891
>i know how difficult is korean
you probably masturbate to cartoons of little girls, dont you?
>Easiest
Swedish
>Hardest
Thai
The easiest is most likely English.
The hardest is the language of love.
>>52676699
Subjective
I could probably learn Estonian much faster than Spanish for example.
>>52677891
Finnish is easy even a 4 year old can speak it
Näinkö meinaat? Tottakai suomalaiselle se on helppoa, mutta mieti ulkomaalaisia jotka joutuis kaikki taivutusmuodot sun muut. En usko että on niin kovin helppoa. >>52678478
>>52676699
If you live in a first-world country, are under 35 and cannot speak English, you are LITERALLY retarded.
Even putting aside how easy English grammar is, the sheer amount of exposure and English-language media should press it into your head.
>>52678478
http://yle.fi/uutiset/puhumattomat_kolmevuotiaat_uusi_ilmio__some_varastaa_vanhempien_ajan/8356936
>>52679167
kek
ti'e casnu lo du'u ma kau noi bangu cu traji lo ka lo ka cilre fi ce'u xi re cu nandu .i ti'e za'o ku no da mulno lo ka filta'a bau lo bangu poi mi ca'o pilno ke'a lo ka ciska dei .i na se birti fa lo ji'a du'u ca su'o balvi co'u go'i .i va'o lo nu do djica lo nu bangu do fa lo jai nandu zo'u: ka'e ku la .lojban. do mapti
>>52676732
>hardest
>chinese
meme desu, at least when it comes to speaking. Writing is a nightmare tho
>Easiest
Esperanto
>Hardest
Cantonese
>>52676699
But I already finish in 3 minutes
>>52677424
The hardest part is the script which is easy with immersion, but almost impossible without. The grammar, however is very consistent and is easy to use intuitively when you get the basics down.
>>52676699
Easiest: Toki Pona
Hardest: Ithkuil
>>52682563
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Misparsed token :
ku [KU] (line 1, col 301)
Latest successfully parsed tokens :
MARKER : PRIVATE_END_TENSE
ka'e [CAhA] (line 1, col 294)
MARKER : PRIVATE_START_TENSE
pi'e [PA3] (line 1, col 294)
zo'u [ZOhU] (line 1, col 290)
nandu [BRIVLA] (line 1, col 284)
jai [JAI] (line 1, col 280)
lo [LE] (line 1, col 277)
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>>52677514
I'm pretty sure they were chainsawed.
>Easyest
English
>Hardest
Portuguese, because i have never saw anyone but natives speaking it properly, try saying "caralho"(the "r") or "pão"(the "~") correctly
>>52683068
For example, I'm also learning German.
>learn new German noun
Must also learn gender and plural.
>learn new German verb
Must also learn past tense, special rules, and its changes depending on ich, du, sie, ihr, etc. Not devastatingly difficult, but can still trip learners up.
>learn new Japanese noun
No genders or plurals, just know the word and you're set, at least for speech.
>learn new Japanese verb
Just knowing the single word let's you know how to conjugate it any way you need, assuming you know how to conjugate.
>>52682924
Chinese writing system is easy as fuck, but their pronounce is hard as hell. Latin pronounce might be easier for native Japanese speakers.
>>52683480
>Chinese writing system is easy as fuck
>uses Hanzi in his own language anyways
>easy as fuck
No joke
>>52678478
Totta kuin reikä perseessä
>>52683415
You must be beginner in Japanese. Try reading authentical stuff like Mishima or Kawabata. It is hard as fuck desu
>>52683480
>Chinese writing system is easy as fuck
Not for a European, your guys share a lot of chrackters with them.
The tones aren´t really that hard desu. The concept just feels very alien at the beginning and it takes some time so get used to it. The tones really sound different tho and they are only 4.
Drunk Femalean is the hardest language I know of. No matter how you understand it, in the morning you understood it wrong, no exceptions.
>>52683645
What a beautiful language
>>52683671
Even after completing something like core 10k? I understand a vocabulary of 10,000 isn't very much, but the sentences if you learn them must cover all the grammar that you would see in Mishima, correct?
>>52683779
It means "As true as a hole in my butt"
>>52683609
Chinese really is easy, at least compared to Japanese. I like the Chinese simplicity.
>>52683906
Okay. Try reading this for example:
http://daily.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/newsplus/1451135423/l50
It is confusing as fuck, even there are no difficult words.
>>52683671
Reading is a different animal, as I specified, and Japanese has several different ways to express the same thing, especially colloquially, but I'm just talking about standard no-flair, Japanese.
>>52676699
this:
>>52678381
>>52677751
It's entirely dependent on your native language(s). For example, most Euros consider Spanish to be easy, but I've spoken to multiple Japanese people who said they stopped studying Spanish due to its difficulty for them.
>>52684021
I have japanese friends and they told me that only hafu can speak japanese well. And also those who lived in Japan since birth...
Just saying
>>52683974
Yeah, I get your point.
>>52676699
It probably depends on what you're first language is. Brits might find learning German easier than Indians would and Estonians might find Finnish easier than Turks would. Malayalam is completely bullshit though. Don't even bother.
>>52683412
the ability to pronounce words in a language with a native-like accent is not part of what makes a language easy or hard to learn.
i bet you speak english with an accent, but still i'd say you're pretty fluent.
>>52683174
Ouch. Remove the colon.
>>52677110
It's very interesting how to me this would be the opposite.
It's probably because Portuguese is far closer to English than Japanese (an enormous amount of our words even share the same greek or latin roots, making certain words immediately recognizable to speakers of either one), just as Japanese is far closer to Korean than Portuguese.
>>52677531
>finnish and estonian are up there in difficulty
>[japanese] is just slapping syllables together with monotonic sound, literally zero pronunciation effort
you sound like a fucking idiot
>>52685395
>Japanese is far closer to Korean than Portuguese.
But Korean is a language isolate. It's not related to any known languages.
>>52685608
this i know. just wondering though, what are the differences between korean and japanese for the most part?
>>52676699
For natlangs:
Easiest:
I'm not sure, but probably English or a Romance language. Obviously this depends on the speaker's native tongue.
Hardest:
For most people this would be any Polysynthetic language. F.e Mohawk and many of the Algonquin languages.
For writing a language, the hardest would definitely be a logography, e.g chinese
>>52676699
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>>52685807
Also Indonesian/Malay is another easy one I've heard of.
Thanks to movies and TV shows and video games, the easiest languages to learn are: American English, Japanese
Hardest languages: Probably Vietnamese or some click-clack tribe language from the Amazon.
>>52685821
sauce for this
because im currently studying russian
>>52677531
How easy it is to pronounce words should not be used to measure the difficulty of a language, specially because that varies wildly between speakers of different languages.
To me Japanese is one of the hardest languages I've ever tried to study. The entire thing is alien to me, and I've been watching anime for ages. I know how to recognize and say key words and sentences, but otherwise I'm stumped.
The grammatical structure is completely different from Portuguese, which makes it very difficult for me, regardless of the fact that word pronounciation is very similar to Brazilian Portuguese.
>>52685608
Of course. I just thought maybe they shared a few similarities, like language structure, honorifics and things like that? Is it wrong to say that it is easier to learn Korean if you're Japanese than if you are Brazilian?
>>52683779
Robots can't into Finnish. Which means you better start learning, it'll be used as code language between humans once the fight against machines starts
>>52685657
Vocabulary is very different.
And so is grammar, although both are agglutinative.
>>52685935
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJEUhJeGooQ
>>52682563
>>52683174
>>52685071
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>>52683508
>>52685990
thank you anon
>>52686055
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>>52676699
>easiest
Probably a memelanguage like Esperanto or Interlingua
>easiest
Basque
>tfw if I'd've invested as much time as I'd've sunk into learning japanese I could be fluent in any romance language I want
I have made some poor decisions
>Easiest
Danish
>Hardest
Arabic
I always go on this yt channels videos to see the qts representing each language
