Nana_Brazil

ahahhhhhh she deserves it

Nani

7aram ya Nana .. i don't deserve that LOL

Nana_Brazil

ahahahhhh haram????/ ahahhhhhhahh

omg dude wtf

I only know 3 languages so far, english, german, and japanese. I think that english is a hard language, with so many exceptions to rules and stuff like that. German I think was pretty easy, though I only learned for 3 years in high school. Japanese was relatively easy(I took 2 years in high school), after you learn how to read and write basic characters (hiragana and katakana). I think that the 3 hardest languages would be:

Languages that use tone to specify words (like vietnamese I think)
English
Chinese (because there are no sentence marks, like hiragana in japanese)

Hmm, seems like people got distracted from the topic a little

Thinilo

Yes, I agree. Asian languages are hard for european speakers. And about the Basque Language (called Euskara by they who speaks it.) It is quite hard.
Euskara is an Ergative-absolutive language wich makes it very diffrent from nominative-accusatvie languages, e.g. english.

Here is an Example (from http://www.ehu.es)

Euskara: emakumeak gizona ikusi du

Directly translated: woman-the-E man-the seen has

Meaning: the woman has seen the man

Note: I do not speak Euskara, but I have read a lot about it's grammar.

Jonne

Hmm I guess I'd have to say

Japanese
Complex writing system (two syllabaries + 2000 chinese letters) and pretty difficult grammar too.. I've been on a japanese lesson about verbs..Felt like I could never learn all that lol... but very interesting language as well...

Finnish
15 cases, lots of compounds (like ruokapöytä. ruoka=food and pöytä=table so it means a dinner table), you conjugate verbs in four time tenses and in every personal pronoun (plus four moduses). If you want to say a sentence like "I eat food with a spoon", that would be "Syön ruokaa lusikalla". In that sentence you inflect/conjugate every word. Syön means I eat, ruokaa means of food and lusikalla means with spoon.
a little example of verbs:
Present tense:
To send - Lähettää
I send - (minä) Lähetän
You send - (sinä) Lähetät
He/she sends - Hän lähettää

First Past: (there are three forms of past)
I sent - (minä) Lähetin
You sent - (sinä) lähetit
S/he sent - hän lähetti

Arabic
If you think that the alphabet is difficult, just learn verbs and you'll think that the alphabet was as easy as eating a candy. Verb conjugation works in same way as in finnish... anyhow, substantives and adjectives are somewhat easy to learn..

jphector

French HAS to be the most difficult language to learn. It doesn’t have too many difficult sounds to pronounce, except maybe the letter “U” without making it sound like “OU”, but to learn, definitely the hardest.

If we first look at the tenses, we find 17 (I could be off by a couple) different ones. Of course, we don’t use each one in everyday use (I’m not sure even WE know when or how to use them all).

The English language only has 3. Now THAT’s an easy language to learn, mind you, I’LL still find ways to make mistakes. I really should learn to speak gooder English

Then in French, there are all the rules. Some of these rules require you to have a degree in Creative Abstract Thinking to fully understand them. Allow me to give you an example:

Quand il y a un deuxième verbe après un verbe conjugué, le deuxième verbe est à l'infinitif, et il faut déterminer si le premier verbe est suivi de à, de, ou rien.

Then, if that wasn’t bad enough, the exceptions will most likely do it. In English, to make something plural, you simply add an “S” at the end. In French, you do the same, EXCEPT if the word is already spelled with an “S” in the singular, or if this is one of those words that require and “X” instead of an “S” at the end to make it plural, or is already spelled with an “X”, or if course, don’t change at all.

But need I rant some more.

Second, I would have to say German. German is almost as complicated to learn as French, and they have the added challenge of knowing if something is masculine, feminine or neutral. It must make it somewhat more challenging to go to a bar and make someone’s acquaintance!

Third, I’d have to say Latin since it’s the root of so many languages. The way I see it, if French came from Latin, it must be because it’s a hard language to begin with. I think I read a footnote somewhere that even the Devil had given up on it.