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re: What is the hardest foreign language to learn?
Posted on 1/25/17 at 10:44 am to Forkbeard3777
Posted on 1/25/17 at 10:44 am to Forkbeard3777
Estonian
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Posted on 1/25/17 at 10:47 am to NikeShox
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My dick
Yes because like other dead languages, nobody has used it in years.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 10:52 am to TSLG
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I've never understood why the entire world isn't taught sign language as children. It would minimize communication barriers throughout the world.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 11:01 am to Forkbeard3777
Posted on 1/25/17 at 11:02 am to toosleaux
Speaking Arabic isn't as hard as it sounds. It's writing/ reading it that would be insanely hard to learn.
It sounds harder than it is because of the speed that most native speakers speak it with. I've never attempted to really learn so I can't put together full sentences. But I know a lot of basics and feel like I could get the speaking part down without considerable trouble.
I know enough to get directions, order food, get paid my money, talk about attractive women/get laid, get alcohol/ drugs, party, curse people out, make fun of people.... the basics
It sounds harder than it is because of the speed that most native speakers speak it with. I've never attempted to really learn so I can't put together full sentences. But I know a lot of basics and feel like I could get the speaking part down without considerable trouble.
I know enough to get directions, order food, get paid my money, talk about attractive women/get laid, get alcohol/ drugs, party, curse people out, make fun of people.... the basics
This post was edited on 1/25/17 at 11:06 am
Posted on 1/25/17 at 11:02 am to Forkbeard3777
Pig latin
Posted on 1/25/17 at 11:08 am to toosleaux
No German on the list? Was curious where it fit in the Easy, Moderate, Difficult categories.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 11:27 am to Forkbeard3777
It must be English based on what we currently see and hear on TV!
Example: Cash me ahside, hah bah dah?
Example: Cash me ahside, hah bah dah?
Posted on 1/25/17 at 11:39 am to Count Chocula
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What is the hardest foreign language to learn?
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inner city democrats. That language is confusing.
Ebonics
That stupid "cash me ousside" bitch might argue.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 1:18 pm to Forkbeard3777
Things that are hard learning Mandarin:
1) They don't put spaces between words, but use 1-3 characters per word, with each character still meaning a word by itself. For instance the words for "big (?)", "alcohol(?)" and "store(?)" are all one character, but put them together and it becomes the word for "hotel( ???)".
2) The massive number of characters (I know ~200 or so, and can barely read traffic signs and menus)
Things that are easy learning Mandarin:
1) Grammar rules are rigid and easy, there aren't really an infinite number of ways to convey the same concept like there are in English
2) No verb conjugation or tenses to deal with in general.
EDIT: Apparently TD doesn't do Chinese characters.
1) They don't put spaces between words, but use 1-3 characters per word, with each character still meaning a word by itself. For instance the words for "big (?)", "alcohol(?)" and "store(?)" are all one character, but put them together and it becomes the word for "hotel( ???)".
2) The massive number of characters (I know ~200 or so, and can barely read traffic signs and menus)
Things that are easy learning Mandarin:
1) Grammar rules are rigid and easy, there aren't really an infinite number of ways to convey the same concept like there are in English
2) No verb conjugation or tenses to deal with in general.
EDIT: Apparently TD doesn't do Chinese characters.
This post was edited on 1/25/17 at 1:19 pm
Posted on 1/25/17 at 1:38 pm to Forkbeard3777
quote:would be my choice.
Mandarin?
Posted on 1/25/17 at 2:40 pm to Teufelhunden
As someone who has formally studied and/or self-studied Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese, I'd say the chart on the previous page is pretty accurate.
Learning the -kana writing system in Japanese is not very difficult. Takes a few weeks at most in formal study. The Kanji do take time to learn, but you can speak the language just fine without knowing them.
The tenses, verb conjugations and formal/informal usage of words is much more of a barrier than the written portion. Not to mention a completely different sentence structure from English.
Same for Korean and Vietnamese. Easy to write/read, hard to speak.
Chinese is hard to write and speak.
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Japanese isn't that difficult except for the 3 alphabets. Hiragana actually makes sense. The letters represent the actual sounds unlike English where we use crazy shite like ph to make the f sound. Katakana is like hiragana but it's used for "foreign" words, things that were invented outside of Japan (yes they're racist and they don't care). Kanji is where it all gets fricked up because there are thousands of these symbols. And they use them all at the same time.
Learning the -kana writing system in Japanese is not very difficult. Takes a few weeks at most in formal study. The Kanji do take time to learn, but you can speak the language just fine without knowing them.
The tenses, verb conjugations and formal/informal usage of words is much more of a barrier than the written portion. Not to mention a completely different sentence structure from English.
Same for Korean and Vietnamese. Easy to write/read, hard to speak.
Chinese is hard to write and speak.
This post was edited on 1/25/17 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 1/25/17 at 3:13 pm to Forkbeard3777
Posted on 1/25/17 at 3:25 pm to RonLaFlamme
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No German on the list? Was curious where it fit in the Easy, Moderate, Difficult categories.
The Army taught my buddy the basics in about three weeks. Based on that it has to be one of the easier ones.
Dutch has to be the easiest. I don't know any dutch and I can read a newspaper article and get the gist of what it's saying most of the time.
Here's an interesting video where a guy goes to Holland and speaks Old English and a guy understands it in Dutch. LINK
Posted on 1/25/17 at 3:26 pm to Forkbeard3777
ebonics
Posted on 1/25/17 at 3:27 pm to RonLaFlamme
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No German on the list? Was curious where it fit in the Easy, Moderate, Difficult categories.
Probably easy. Structure is similar to English and it doesn't have an excessive number of tenses.
Only downside is there aren't as many opportunities to use it and keep your skills sharp.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 3:29 pm to Forkbeard3777
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What is the hardest foreign language to learn?
Verne Lundquistese is the easiest to learn but the hardest to master.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 3:53 pm to Forkbeard3777
Has to be Chinese. There are different variants and it is challenging for a non native speaker to learn.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 4:31 pm to TSLG
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I've never understood why the entire world isn't taught sign language as children. It would minimize communication barriers throughout the world
Probably because there would be a different sign language for every language
Posted on 1/25/17 at 4:34 pm to Forkbeard3777
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