What do you think is the hardest language to learn in the whole world???

[Guest BulmaVegeta1]

Wow, a lot of yall here are Korean! I didn't know that! I have a friend that is Korean, and he dosen't even know one bit of the language. His mom is from Korea and his dad is from the US. Kind of like my family, except that my mom's from Brazil. I've come to the closing conclusion that Korean and Chinese are the hardest languages.....Japanese is pretty easy, espically since I'm so determined to learn it. Oh, by the way sage, it's very nice that you know Finnish, but you don't have to go around showing off just because you know it. And Wrist Cutter and Brolli please calm down! Everyone has their own opinoins on what they think is the eaisest language or hardest. We didn't come here to start fights. I just wish everyone would just speak 1 language because everything would be so easy! THe world would proably be a lot more peaceful and relations with countries would be great! But I highly doubt that something like that will ever happen unless some crazy dicator or communist leader takes over the world......boy oh boy...me and my imagination!

[Sandy]

Okay, sorry,BulmaV., I got a bit carried away:blush:
(But English still isn't even NEARLY the hardest language*mumble*)

[Guest Fly-T]

Come to think English is pretty tuff its a good thing other countries dont have Slang or ghetto talk that be off da hizzie fo shizzie and some americans dont even know what that means!!!

[Ravenstorture]

Actually, English is apparently one of the hardest languages to learn but people who speak it as a first language don't realise it because it's much easier to learn something as a first language. Have you noticed that if you speak english, you think in english? That's why it appears easy. Thinking in a different language to what you are speaking is difficult. However, if you surround yourself with a language that you are learning, you begin to think in that language as an impulse that speeds the learning process up.
I have lived in many different countries, such as Greece, Egypt, England and Australia. I learnt a bit of each language when I lived there, and found that the best way to learn a language is if you are exposed to it constantly.

I am currently learning Japenese, I have been doing so for about five years. I am pretty fluent in reading hiragana and katakana and I can recognise about one hundred or so kanji. It's difficult, though, with so many languages floating around in my head.

Another thing I found is that if you learn a language from the country itself, the first words you learn are usually thankyou and swearwords.

The most difficult language ever spoken is Sanscrit, which was a language of the hindu provinces (north india) but it is no longer spoken. The kama sutra was written originally in sanscrit. The reason sanscrit was so difficult, I think, is because there were no patterns involved. All words were made up out of nothing, and so everything was completely different and had to be memorised completely. No wonder it's not spoken anymore. Some scholars still speak it to study ancient texts.

It's the same in greek today - plurals of a word are often completely different from the original word. I really struggled with the greek language, but all you really have to know if Epharisto, which is thankyou, and perimene, which means I understand. the great thing about greece, though, is that you don't need to.

[Vegitto4]

I personally think that pig Latin was hard, when i started. it got easy realllllllly quick.

The oriental languages look hard, but interesting.
I hate Spanish
I really want to Learn Sweedish.

Pig Latin ownz all of j00

[Omniroth]

Japanese I think is rather tough myself...it doesnt translate to perfect English and I cant take it for two years...but currently, i'll have to say Japanese.

[Sandy]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Vegitto4 [/i]
[B]I really want to Learn Sweedish.
[/B][/QUOTE]


Trust me, you really don't.(It is Finland's second official language, and it's SOOO hard, and also it sounds stupid.)


OKAY,OKAY, I'm really acting like a teenager(which I'm not), but I just hate swedish,OK?

[wrist cutter]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by sage [/i]
[B]Trust me, you really don't.(It is Finland's second official language, and it's SOOO hard, and also it sounds stupid.)


OKAY,OKAY, I'm really acting like a teenager(which I'm not), but I just hate swedish,OK? [/B][/QUOTE]

Everyone always says Japanese is hard, and lots of people think it sounds stupid (though the sounds they "replicate" Japanese speech with can often not even be made by native Japanese speakers) but I have learned quite a bit of it (not to the point of fluency... my vocabulary is limited still), just despite them.

The point is: you can learn whatever you want, even if there isn't a school offering it.

[Char!]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by PiroMunkie [/i]
[B][color=indigo]So are you trying to differ between old English (like they speak in England) and the English we use here in America? Cuase that's the only difference I can make between the two, lol.[/color] [/B][/QUOTE]

That's it exactly. We get a British version of Antique Roadshow on a station where I'm from, and wow, I can bearly understand what they're saying! Apart from the obvious pounds/dollars difference, there's all these sayings and words that they might consider slang but us Americans might consider a bunch of gobbledegook.

It's amazing how different one language can become after only about 200 years...

[*-- RagnaroK--*]

I think that the hardest language to speak in the world is anything with masculine and feminine. The hardest alphabetically wise, has to be Japanese, all those characters *sheesh*. But I cant really complain about it, not since im planning to go and learn in the summer holidays. :)

Oh and Brolli, nice Avatar......

[Sara]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Char-Char,Mander-Char! [/i]
[B]That's it exactly. We get a British version of Antique Roadshow on a station where I'm from, and wow, I can bearly understand what they're saying! Apart from the obvious pounds/dollars difference, there's all these sayings and words that they might consider slang but us Americans might consider a bunch of gobbledegook.

It's amazing how different one language can become after only about 200 years... [/B][/QUOTE]Hehe...I used to watch that. It was on right after Zoom, or something...

And, well....Most difficult language, I would have to agree, would be English. I know people who've been speaking it for forty years and still manage to sound like complete morons...

The really fun thing with English is all the etymology you can play with. You've got words from so many different languages, meaning so many different things.

And English vs. American? Eh, I don't know. On a large scale, it's just regional stuff. I mean, Char--who else in the country uses "Bubbler"? I remember going on vacation a few years ago and asking where the bubbler was--the looks I got! Crazy Milwaukee.

[*-- RagnaroK--*]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Cera [/i]
[B]Hehe...I used to watch that. It was on right after Zoom, or something...

And, well....Most difficult language, I would have to agree, would be English. I know people who've been speaking it for forty years and still manage to sound like complete morons...

The really fun thing with English is all the etymology you can play with. You've got words from so many different languages, meaning so many different things.

And English vs. American? Eh, I don't know. On a large scale, it's just regional stuff. I mean, Char--who else in the country uses "Bubbler"? I remember going on vacation a few years ago and asking where the bubbler was--the looks I got! Crazy Milwaukee. [/B][/QUOTE]

Um..... whats a bubbler? im guessing its the toilet.
By the way you talk about the english language it seems that you havent heard the brummy (birmingham) accent, its so funny, its like english with a high pitched voice and like, words like arent coming out of there mouth, its just mumble jumble. lol!!

[Vegitto4]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by sage [/i]
[B]


Trust me, you really don't.(It is Finland's second official language, and it's SOOO hard, and also it sounds stupid.)


OKAY,OKAY, I'm really acting like a teenager(which I'm not), but I just hate swedish,OK? [/B][/QUOTE]

hey, Sweeden is awesome. No dissage of sweeden.

I already know some, but its stuff like Yavla Hurra[ ****ing whore]

and Fiet Bugg[ fat fagget]