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Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by yungchop: 12:01pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Top 10: French As an official language in 29 countries, French is a challenging language. However, it can be seen as both easy and hard, depending on the learner's native language. French is a Roman language. If the learner's grasp of other Roman languages such as Italian, Portuguese and Spanish is strong, French will be a very quick and enjoyable new language to acquire. Otherwise, for those coming from a completely different language family, learning French would be considerably more difficult. Its pronunciation follows very strict rules based on the spelling, which is often based more on history than phonology. |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by yungchop: 12:03pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Top 9: Danish Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by some 6 million people. The sound system of Danish is in many ways unusual among the world's languages, which makes it one of the hardest languages in the world to learn, as the spoken language usually does not sound anything like its written version. |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by yungchop: 12:04pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Top 8: Norwegian Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. It is among the world's languages that's the most difficult to learn how to speak well. No officially sanctioned standard of spoken Norwegian is in place and most Norwegians speak their own dialect at any given time. |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by yungchop: 12:05pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Top 7: German As one of the world's major languages, German holds the largest number of native speakers within the European Union. It is a language which contains several standard dialects, both in its spoken and written forms. As an inflected language with three grammatical genders, it has a large number of words deriving from the same root. |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by yungchop: 12:06pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Top 6: Finnish As a language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland, Finnish is hard to learn for its extremely complicated grammar and "endless derivative suffixes." Finnish employs extensive modifiers to verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives and numerals, depending on their roles in the sentence. |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by yungchop: 12:07pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Top 5: Japanese Japanese is an East Asian language spoken primarily in Japan. According to documents, Chinese had a considerable influence on the vocabulary and phonology of Old Japanese. Since 1945, it has borrowed a large number of words from English, especially vocabulary relating to technology. One major reason which makes the language so hard to learn is that the written code is different from the spoken code. In addition, Japanese has an extensive grammatical system to express politeness and formalities. |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by yungchop: 12:09pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Top 4: Icelandic Icelandic, a North Germanic language, is the main language of Iceland. Icelandic is hard to learn because of its archaic vocabulary and complex grammar. Icelandic retains many grammatical features of other ancient Germanic languages, and modern Icelandic is still a heavily inflected language. |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by yungchop: 12:10pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Top 3: Arabic Arabic, belonging to the Afro-Asiatic language family, includes both the literary language and varieties of Arabic spoken across the Middle East, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. The language has a complex and unusual method in constructing words from a basic root. For instance, nouns in Literary Arabic have three grammatical cases, three numbers, two genders and three "states." |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by yungchop: 12:11pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Top 2: Greek As an independent branch of the Indo- European family of languages, the Greek language features the longest and most documented history. It is spoken mainly across Greece and Cyprus. Along its history, its syllabic structure has remained constant. It has a mixed syllable structure, allowing for relatively complex combinations of sounds. In addition, Greek possesses an extensive set of productive derivational affixes and a rich inflectional system. |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by yungchop: 12:12pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Top 1: Chinese Chinese forms one of the branches of the Sino-Tibetan language family and over one billion people can name it as their native language. The relationship between the spoken and written Chinese language is rather complex. Its written form has no clues as to how it is actually pronounced. The tone system also is a pain because there are many homophones in Chinese only distinguishable by the four tones. Even this is often not enough unless the actual context and exact phrase are identified. |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by Nobody: 12:14pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Hah...yungchop?? Na you be this Lol That chinese go hard well-well. Whenever I watch Chinese films way back without subtitle, I am always Sooooo lost. Then German : I look @ their letters/words and wonder how they do it. One word will have more than twenty-six letters which happens to be our total normal number of alphabets here... How do they pronounce them? I am good @none! Maybe a lil of french...which I would only understand with slow motion sef. ... none joor. |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by yungchop: 12:14pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
So nairalanders which of em are you fluent in?? Am fluent in Arabic being a muslim and was born in Qatar. Am currently learning german and russian! Russian is so simple but has so many false friends alphabets, just get it right and you're good to go! |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by yungchop: 12:15pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Kachisbarbie: Hah...yungchop??you've been ignoring me since 23april 1890 |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by priscaoge(f): 12:17pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
I wanna learn French n German languages!...That Chinese n Arabic Language na to cut my tongue be dat |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by Nobody: 12:20pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
yungchop: you've been ignoring me since 23april 1890Lol... Bc I can see you now run an Institute of Woman-wrappering...just kidding. I have replied you...check. |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by priscaoge(f): 12:22pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
yungchop: So nairalanders which of em are you fluent in?? Am fluent in Arabic being a muslim and was born in Qatar. Am currently learning german and russian! Russian is so simple but has so many false friends alphabets, just get it right and you're good to go!Is Arabic not difficult? |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by yungchop: 12:29pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Kachisbarbie:I've stopped it. @priscaoge arabic is just so fvcking simple mehn, asin when you know its literatures and musical parts mehn!! Try listening to arab musics and see, I can even rap with arabic |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by agedmanng: 12:31pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Guten tag |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by Nobody: 12:32pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
@yungchop Which year you stop am?...because I haven't noticed...time will tell. Anyway, lets not derail this lovely thread... |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by Chanchit: 12:33pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Currently learning deutsch(German) and I dnt think its that hard, I fear french more, but I can't go near languages that does not have alphabets. |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by priscaoge(f): 12:33pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
yungchop: I've stopped it. @priscaoge arabic is just so fvcking simple mehn, asin when you know its literatures and musical parts mehn!! Try listening to arab musics and see, I can even rap with arabicU say?? Simple? With this their Arabic letters that look like shorthand n music notes It doesn't have alphabets abi? |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by Harmthe(m): 12:35pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
tank God, Yoruba is nt dere. Even Alafin of Oyo is confusing by nw |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by chinex276(m): 12:40pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
French?? I am suprised! |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by yungchop: 12:49pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
priscaoge:that's just it! Once you know the alif bah tah sir up till yah, and the vowels & cons. Then the sign, fatiha, kersuro, domo, sukun, fatiha taini, kersuro taini, domo taini, shedda, medda, alif-mordi ! That's all you need for arabic! Sounds like incantations right? Once you're in love with it there be no more probs. |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by yungchop: 12:50pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Chanchit: Currently learning deutsch(German) and I dnt think its that hard, I fear french more, but I can't go near languages that does not have alphabets.danke ! |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by agedmanng: 12:53pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Chanchit: Currently learning deutsch(German) and I dnt think its that hard, I fear french more, but I can't go near languages that does not have alphabets. Are you learning online or in the classroom? |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by priscaoge(f): 1:08pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
yungchop: that's just it! Once you know the alif bah tah sir up till yah, and the vowels & cons. Then the sign, fatiha, kersuro, domo, sukun, fatiha taini, kersuro taini, domo taini, shedda, medda, alif-mordi ! That's all you need for arabic! Sounds like incantations right? Once you're in love with it there be no more probs.Omo see language,Bro no vex eeeh,I no learn again. It will be so difficult 4 me cos am not a Muslim,and that's Y It's sounding so strange to me...Lol |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by Jarchi(m): 1:22pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Bueno, va a hacer el espanol. Spanish is simple to me but to odas no |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by spanzed(m): 1:35pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Out of all dis language its only french I have been taught but still I no gree learn...my french teacher back den in junior sec school nearly kill me but still remain adamat!!! ..had I known I would have listened in class. 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by Idrismusty97(m): 1:50pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
Where is Polish? Who compiled this list and on what criteria? The hardest language to learn is: Polish – Seven cases, Seven genders and very difficult pronunciation. The average English speaker is fluent in their language at the age of 12, in contrast, the average Polish speaker is fluent in their language after age of 16. |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by Chanchit: 2:02pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
agedmanng: Currently in Goethe institute for German language. |
Re: Top 10 Hardest Foreign Languages To Learn by Chanchit: 2:03pm On Sep 17, 2014 |
yungchop: danke ! Nix zu danken..! |
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