Hardest Language To Learn!?
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Most language schools are terrible. They focus on the grammar and writing method too much,instead of doing it the way you learned your first language.
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Agreed, Polish has so many grammatical rules to it that it can be a very difficult language to learn. However, if you learn Polish then it'll give you a, in my opinion, great jumping off point for other Slavic languages.
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If I wanted to learn Polish,would it be best to learn to speak it first,then focus on correct grammar in writing polish later?
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Nog een Nederlander hier op het forum! Altijd gezellig.
I'm Dutch too. But wasn't born in Holland. And it wasn't my mother tongue the moment I learned it. So I can pretty much tell this from experience.
Also, I can speak a few languages. And yet again, Dutch was the toughest to master. Even today my grammar still sucks.
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wtf this is way out of the window! as far as i know mandarin chinese is most hardest language cause of number of words/letter (you can read newsletter from first page to last if you know atleast 10k words/letters)
Japan and Finnish go hand by hand in pronouncing but complexity of words makes finnish much harder.
I have studied chinese, it is very straight forward to learn, but because they overkill ammount of words/letters it makes it hard to learn. mandarin chinese is funny in the way that you can say thing in many ways, but not all know all the ways than others
EDIT: good example would be the way of explaining position of moon if someone is familiar with that...
Japan and Finnish go hand by hand in pronouncing but complexity of words makes finnish much harder.
-> http://mylanguages.org/difficult_languages.php
I have studied chinese, it is very straight forward to learn, but because they overkill ammount of words/letters it makes it hard to learn. mandarin chinese is funny in the way that you can say thing in many ways, but not all know all the ways than others
EDIT: good example would be the way of explaining position of moon if someone is familiar with that...
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I meant should I learn it like how I learned my first language? Where I associate the words with items,like how Rosetta stone does,instead of translating.
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I was always under the impression that English was one of the hardest languages to learn. Due to the fact that there were so many different variations of the same word, with multiple meanings.
For instance you can have the same word, in the same sentence that mean to totally different meanings.
For instance:
- Excuse; Please excuse me while I think of an excuse.
- Polish; Tell the Polish cleaners to polish the floor.
- Minute; The button was so minute that it was a minute before I found it.
- Wind; Hopefully the wind will be strong enough to wind the windmill.
- Record; It's the referee's job to record the new world record.
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English needs to be rewritten so that it is more understandable.
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C++
(ahahaha its a language right?)
C++ is not the hardest, nor the easiest. I'd say assembler is the hardest.
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One variable that seems to be overlooked is the native tongue of the learner. For someone from a Latin based alphabet system with Western European Phonetics such as English, French, German, then learning to write Arabic and sound out single letters may be harder, but a deep Pacific Island dialetic or Japanese person may find getting the concept of the Russian, Slavic, or Latin Alphabet bearing languages harder to grasp.
South Asian languages that did not derive directly from arabic influence (like urdu, or Farsi) such as Hindi, always seemed hard for myself to conceptualize, mostly from my unfamiliarity with either local dialects, writing traditions, and sanskrit.
South Asian languages that did not derive directly from arabic influence (like urdu, or Farsi) such as Hindi, always seemed hard for myself to conceptualize, mostly from my unfamiliarity with either local dialects, writing traditions, and sanskrit.
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Because if you have access to the resources its a pretty easy language to learn,since its a latin based language and modern English is 60% latin based. But in reality unless you go to Romania you probably won't have enough resources to learn it. There is only 3 places I know of in the United States that teaches it.