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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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!

Kachisbarbie: 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.

you've been ignoring me since 23april 1890

I wanna learn French n German languages!...That Chinese n Arabic Language na to cut my tongue be dat

yungchop: you've been ignoring me since 23april 1890

Lol...
Bc I can see you now run an Institute of Woman-wrappering...just kidding.
I have replied you...check.

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?

Kachisbarbie:
Lol...
Bc I can see you now run an Institute of Woman-wrappering...just kidding.
I have replied you...check.

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

Guten tag

@yungchop
Which year you stop am?...because I haven't noticed...time will tell. Anyway, lets not derail this lovely thread...

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.

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 arabic

U say?? Simple? With this their Arabic letters that look like shorthand n music notes It doesn't have alphabets abi?

tank God, Yoruba is nt dere.


Even Alafin of Oyo is confusing by nw

French?? I am suprised!

priscaoge:
U say?? Simple? With this their Arabic letters that look like shorthand n music notes It doesn't have alphabets abi?

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.

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 !

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?

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

Bueno, va a hacer el espanol. Spanish is simple to me but to odas no

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.

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.
http://claritaslux.com/blog/the-hardest-language-to-learn/

agedmanng:


Are you learning online or in the classroom?

Currently in Goethe institute for German language.

yungchop: danke !

Nix zu danken..!