Vinayakan

I don't like to say it because I don't want people get frightened of this wonderful language. Sanskrit is really difficult.
Not the script, the script is easy, every sound is written by just one symbol and every symbol has just one sound.

It is the grammer. Seven different ways to express the past tense. Many cases. Singular, plural but also dual mumber. Complicated rules to write words together. (called sandhi)
गोपयेद्दारान्विद्यामभ्यासयेत्सुतान् (Gopayeddaaraanvidyaamabhyaasayetsutaan)
(=You have to take care of your wife and give education to your children)

Many synonyms. More than 20 words for elephant, sun, moon, king etc.

Pronounciation: four different T, four different D, two N, two SH, two L.

Different forms of the verb to express "must" "want" etc.
Like karoti (कराति) he does, kuryaat (कुर्यात् ) he must do, cikiirShati (चिकीर्षति) he wants to do, carkarti (चर्कर्ति) he often does.
Different verb forms to express if the benefit of the action is for youself or for someone else: karoti (कराति) he does for another; kurute (कुरुते ) he does for himself.

But if you know the forms you can say a whole sentence in just one word.

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ವಸುಧೈವ ಕುಟುಂಕಮ್ /The world is one family / वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम्

Nana_Brazil

yeahhhh you are right!

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pluiepoco

Chinese "R" is like French "J", but most Chinese pronounce "R" containing a vowel "e", so Chinese "r" is almost like prolonged French "Je", as "Jee".

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te_iubesc_minuata

Asma you are quite wright a language isn't that to hard to learn ..i found to learn many languages quite easy because when i was young i learnt alot of languages but the main i learnt was english and russian from there was many speakers of them,but they was quite alot of other languages spoken but i would leave listeing them ..it will take long i could spend about 4 week's on one language an know it quite well by then but i was made to learn 3 languages in 4 week's what had put much pressure on me but i don't do 3 now but do just 1 which is good for me (?)

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JimJim

In reference to the comment about english:

From what I have heard, people from mother languages in asian countries, English is a very hard language to learn. I have also heard it is moderatley hard for those in european mother languages.

I wouldn't say French is HARD, but I would say it is very difficult, when coming from english there is a natural trend to say words a certain way, which in French comes out wrong.

izumo

I think i would choose japanese, german and russian.le japonais à cause du nombre de caractères;l'allemand à cause des déclinaisons et des verbes forts que je n'arrive pas à retenir;et le russe parce que j'ai beaucoup de mal avec l'alphabet cyrillique.Donc voilà pour ta réponse.Sur ce ,bye et a+.
Izumo

lenfini

As I'm not a sound linguist I really don't know. But I've read that Mandarian Chinese, Finnish and the African click languages are rather hard to learn. English is an intermediate language to learn--it is not easy! Indeed, given how well accepted English is as the international language of communication, very few non-native English-speaking persons speak it well. Out of all the large international languages, Spanish and Italian would probably be the easiest to learn; Italian words are easy to pronounce; Spanish words are easy to pronounce and spell, and furthermore, the language is totally structured--even the the supposedly daunting 15 verb tenses. Désolé, mais le français est aussi plutôt facile de maîtriser. My best friend speaks a comprehensible German, and he's affirmed it's a beast--hardest large European language outside of Finnish, in his opinion.

But whom cares? Just because a language is difficult doesn't mean it is useful. On the whole, the romance languages are fairly easy to learn only because the Latin (and to a lesser extent, Greek) grammarians were so skilled at their vocation.

Here comes the controversial part. In my impartial judgment, Englsih--particularly American English--is perhaps the best all-around large international language. The Germanic base of our language was flexible enough to incorporate, primarily through French, all the advantages of Latin vocabulary and grammar, without loosing its meaty yet concise Germanic foundation. O there are just so many lovely yet accurate one and two syllable words in our tongue as to make it a poets' paradise! What's more, our language is the most copious in the world, with something insane like over 900,000 words choose from. (**Note** I deliberately put the prepositon 'from' at the end of the preceding sentence rather than directly after the function word 'which' as a quick (perhaps specious?) example of how English, where both Latin and our own 'Germanic' grammar are concerned, enjoys the best of both worlds **) To this very day native English-speaking people--again, particularly Americans--are great at pioneering new vocabulary. Perhaps this is an outcome of just how good we Americans have been at pioneering new ideas and technology in recent history. (Too bad we've turned right around and begun giving it all away to 'foreign competition' and illegal immigrants. ) Finally, the comparatively large degree of social freedom we Americans enjoy has rubbed off on our tongue. While I admit that, structurally, some of the romance languages (especially Spanish) are more flexible as it relates to subject, verb and object placement, we've nevertheless been able to surpass this advantage (which may actually be a disadvantage if it leads to grammatical arbitrariness) in other areas.

English must be one of the best overall languages in the world.

Keep up the good work,

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