World's hardest Languages (with grammar) to learn
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10 Apr 2011, 11:32
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This is the list:
1. Slovak
2. Hungarian
3. Chinese
4. Polish
5. Japanese
6. Russian
7. Arabic
8. Mandarin
9. Basque
10 . Lithuanian
(11.
nerd lang.)
Smth about slovak lang.
I am from Slovakia. I can say it is really a difficult language. Even people here need about 12-14 years to learn to write Slovak correctly. (Yes writing is way more harder for us.). Seven cases mentioned here are not the main concern! There are tons of other aspects and complications in the Slovak language. I will list some of them: the rule where to use y/i at the end of words (really a though and complex thing), rule where to use y/i after consonants like b,p,m,v,k,r,z,l (we have to memorize hundreds of words and for the rest there are other rules/or exceptions), different declensions for masculine/feminine/neuter gender (each of them contain at least four patterns how to declinate), several tenses, rule of using 'ť'/'t' 'n'/'ň'.. , rule how to use 'de'/'ďe', 'te'/'ťe', 'ne'/'ňe'..etc, adverbs prepositions numbers adjectives - all of them are declinated too.
There are also tons of rules in pronunciation: the rule of assimilation (Consonant clusters containing both voiced and voiceless elements are entirely voiced), rule for pronunciation of the letter 'v'... and many more.
And in addition to comparison with Czech language - in Slovak language there are things you can't find in the Czech language. To mention a confusing rhythmical rule (A long syllable (that is, a syllable containing á, é, í, ý, ó, ú, ŕ, ĺ, ia, ie, iu, ô) cannot be followed by another long syllable in the same word.) and also you can't find 'soft' letters like 'ď','ť','ľ','ň','dž','č','ä','ô','ia','ie','iu' in the Czech language. (And yeah - for them there are just another rules in the language.)
Well I mentioned just some aspects of the Slovak language (there is a fairly long book covering just Slovak syntax and grammar) and you can see it really complex with plenty of rules. Not to mention that with every rule there come even more exceptions.
So at the end you need to even double the complexity of the Slovak language.
Do you still doubt which is the hardest language?
Sorry, but CF don´t have UTF-8 Europan code.
1. Slovak
2. Hungarian
3. Chinese
4. Polish
5. Japanese
6. Russian
7. Arabic
8. Mandarin
9. Basque
10 . Lithuanian
(11.
nerd lang.)Smth about slovak lang.
I am from Slovakia. I can say it is really a difficult language. Even people here need about 12-14 years to learn to write Slovak correctly. (Yes writing is way more harder for us.). Seven cases mentioned here are not the main concern! There are tons of other aspects and complications in the Slovak language. I will list some of them: the rule where to use y/i at the end of words (really a though and complex thing), rule where to use y/i after consonants like b,p,m,v,k,r,z,l (we have to memorize hundreds of words and for the rest there are other rules/or exceptions), different declensions for masculine/feminine/neuter gender (each of them contain at least four patterns how to declinate), several tenses, rule of using 'ť'/'t' 'n'/'ň'.. , rule how to use 'de'/'ďe', 'te'/'ťe', 'ne'/'ňe'..etc, adverbs prepositions numbers adjectives - all of them are declinated too.
There are also tons of rules in pronunciation: the rule of assimilation (Consonant clusters containing both voiced and voiceless elements are entirely voiced), rule for pronunciation of the letter 'v'... and many more.
And in addition to comparison with Czech language - in Slovak language there are things you can't find in the Czech language. To mention a confusing rhythmical rule (A long syllable (that is, a syllable containing á, é, í, ý, ó, ú, ŕ, ĺ, ia, ie, iu, ô) cannot be followed by another long syllable in the same word.) and also you can't find 'soft' letters like 'ď','ť','ľ','ň','dž','č','ä','ô','ia','ie','iu' in the Czech language. (And yeah - for them there are just another rules in the language.)
Well I mentioned just some aspects of the Slovak language (there is a fairly long book covering just Slovak syntax and grammar) and you can see it really complex with plenty of rules. Not to mention that with every rule there come even more exceptions.
So at the end you need to even double the complexity of the Slovak language.
Do you still doubt which is the hardest language?
Sorry, but CF don´t have UTF-8 Europan code.
Even the exceptions of rules have exceptions ;d
np4me
For me mandarin is hardest
Many langs are hard to speak, but when you will write it, you don´t need to case them!
In slovak, you need.
You don´t use a áéŕíýóô and others.... Try to learn slovak grammar. :)
Translate it now!
5. Japanese
But list is with grammar!
Metajokes for the win!
Russian is quite easy to learn.
chinese and japanese due to endless alphabet/list of words
slovak seems quite hard if i believe you, don't rly know
english = most primitive language ever
roman languages (french, spanish, italian, german) are quite easy
russian is not really hard
anyway gotta agree
one fact more for those who think that finnish is hardest language! WRONG!
finnish language is smart for estonian people!
sorry for english!
Few learn estonian, im proud of those who do. I hate russians tho for living for generations here and still dont give a fuck about learning even some basic estonian.
siis oled v2ge v2he neid jaapanlasi,tyrklasi n2inud, kes oskavad eesti keelt v2gi h2sti!
j6udu))
1. Basque
2. Hungarian
3. Chinese
4. Polish
5. Japanese
6. Russian
7. German
8. Korean
9. English
10. Swahili
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Extremely Hard: The hardest language to learn is: Polish-Seven Cases, Seven Genders and very difficult pronunciation. Average English speaker is fluent at about the age 12; the average Polish speaker is fluent in their language not until age 16. . [source]
Its very hard to learn :p