Icelandic and Gothic and Norse and Faroese are some of the easiest category 1 languages with very easy category 1 pronunciation and the word memorability / prettiness of the words from the easiest languages ever like English and Dutch and Norwegian, Hungarian is a mid category 2 language that also has easy pronunciation and very memorable words, and Finnish / Estonian / Latvian are category 2 languages as well that are just slightly harder to memorize than Hungarian etc, they are among the easiest languages with very light spelling that use normal letters (the Latin alphabet aka the easiest alphabet ever) and don’t belong on this list, they should be on easy languages lists, tho I guess it’s still good that they were at least included on a list, as they don’t get included often, tho they should be among the top recommendations on every language recommendation list as the Norse languages like Icelandic and Norse etc are the most alpha languages ever created and are among the prettiest ever like English and Dutch etc, and Hungarian is also very pretty as most Hungarian words are very pretty and easy to memorize, as one naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster! 🇮🇸
Navajo is a category 6 language, harder than Russian which is category 5 with different alphabet, and harder than category 4 languages such as Polish and Czech with very heavy spelling that isn’t easy to read, which are definitely not easier than Icelandic which has a way lighter spelling that is lighter than the spelling of French or German etc and is very easy to read, so it isn’t easier than Hungarian - I am learning Icelandic and Norse and all other Germanic languages and Hungarian and Finnish etc, and they are all very easy to read / learn, náda ‘hard’ about them, tho any language is going to seem ‘hard’ to a beginner, I guess, but, the real hard languages that are objectively hard are category 6 to category 10 languages with odd scripts and characters and tones etc that are impossible to read / memorize / pronounce etc!
By the way, my current levels are... - upper intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / German - writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish - upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian - intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian / Welsh - beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene - total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / Urkers / Hunsrik / East Norse / Ruhrpöttisch / Alemannic / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Pälzische Deutsch / Austrian German / Waddisch / Palatine German / Westföälsk Sassisk / Austro-Bavarian / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / Sognamål / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Yiddish / Afrikaans / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc) (I highly recommend learning Dutch / Icelandic + Norse + Faroese / Norwegian as they are so magical, as pretty / refined / poetic as English - all other Germanic and the other pretty languages on my list are also gorgeous, so they are all a great option!)
The correct rankings are... Icelandic / Norse / Faroese and Slovene are category 1 languages, and Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian are category 2 languages - they should be on easy languages list, they don’t belong on this list, as do all other Germanic languages! Irish and Scottish Gaelic are category 3 languages, still pretty easy, compared to most others! Czech and Polish are category 4 languages with very heavy spelling! Russian is a category 5 language using a different alphabet! Navajo is a category 6 or category 7 language, totally not easier than Hungarian lol! Thai and Vietnamese are category 8 and 7 languages, extremely difficult to learn / memorize / understand or to differentiate between such short words that sound exactly the same, same as Chinese and Korean words! Arabic and Korean are category 9 languages, impossible to read and to understand short words that sound exactly the same! Japanese is category 9.5 or 10, as its writing is as hard as that of Chinese, honestly, only the pronunciation is slightly less complicated, but it still has pitch accents, which are similar to tones! Cantonese and Mandarin are category 10 languages, as both the characters and the tonal pronunciation are category ten, and they have up to eight tones!
I only started learning languages on my own about one year ago, and am learning 15+ languages at the same time, and I am already upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse and German and advanced level in Norwegian Bokmål and upper advanced level in Dutch and mid intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian and intermediate level in Welsh and upper beginner level in multiple other languages - the key to being a successful polyglot is, always choosing wisely, by only choosing the pretty and easy languages (the languages that are on my list of languages I want to learn and improve) for their pretty words and sounds, as one can literally learn five or ten or even fifteen easy and pretty languages at the same time, and in a few years one can reach fluency in most of them, as opposed to only trying to learn one impossible language (that doesn’t even sound good) that one shall never reach true fluency in, not even after decades, so one should always choose wisely, and, I highly recommend learning the gorgeous Icelandic + Norse and Dutch and Norwegian as they are as pretty / refined / poetic as English and a must-know for every learner, definitely way too pretty not to know! 🇮🇸
@@maeslor Apparently you are unaware of the high similarity between Japanese and Korean. Also, Japan, China, and Taiwan have kanji cultures that make it easy for them to learn each other's languages.
@@blueierblue4499 I know Arabic. It has a lot of forms, but not as crazy as Navajo.. Just read up a bit of their grammar and you'll see grammar rules you've never even imagined.
@@JolivoHY9 How would you know Arabic grammar is harder than Navajo if you don't know any Navajo grammar? That's like saying person A is taller or shorter than person B despite never having seen person B.
"As you can see, it is a total fallacy that learning Sanskrit is difficult. It is one of the easiest languages to learn because of its disciplinary grammar and syntax. Every four years, the World Sanskrit Conference is held, as are numerous smaller conferences devoted to various aspects of the language." Copy pasted from Google... so don't ask me
Icelandic and Gothic and Norse and Faroese are some of the easiest category 1 languages with very easy category 1 pronunciation and the word memorability / prettiness of the words from the easiest languages ever like English and Dutch and Norwegian, Hungarian is a mid category 2 language that also has easy pronunciation and very memorable words, and Finnish / Estonian / Latvian are category 2 languages as well that are just slightly harder to memorize than Hungarian etc, they are among the easiest languages with very light spelling that use normal letters (the Latin alphabet aka the easiest alphabet ever) and don’t belong on this list, they should be on easy languages lists, tho I guess it’s still good that they were at least included on a list, as they don’t get included often, tho they should be among the top recommendations on every language recommendation list as the Norse languages like Icelandic and Gothic and Norse etc are the most alpha languages ever created and are among the prettiest ever like English and Dutch and Norwegian etc, and Hungarian is also very pretty as most Hungarian words are very pretty and easy to memorize, as one naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster! 🇮🇸
@@namenotfound8186 I'm not confident with speaking, because I get to practice it so rarely. And every time I've encountered an english speaking person here, they've had a really strong accent that was neither British nor American and I couldn't understand them very well.
@@pawelowi7528If you want to fully learn English whether that is British or American English, just take a vacation to the UK or US and you’ll pick up on all the slang and accent very quickly. Also if you go learn a fourth language such as French, German, Greek, or Latin it will be much easier. English shares many common words with those four languages and so learning one of them can help with English.
@@epicmatter3512 I have no trouble undestanding British or American English. The hardest accents for me to understand are from countries where English is not the primary language (Estonia for example). I've picked up a fair amount of slang by regularly talking to friends online, but it has always been over text, never in a voice chat.
Dude it depends , for different speakers different language is different, for East Asians English is most difficult, and most of the people find East Asian languages difficult due to its ronal Nature. Indeed malyali is toughest language in India followed by Urdu, sanskrit, telegu and Tamil.
I am American learning Chinese. I have studied other languages, including classical and eastern languages, and Chinese has BY FAR the most simple grammar. It has been the easiest to study. I feel little are deterred by tones, and never look farther than that.
I agree, mandarin chinese does have a simple grammar system. But it gets harder and harder for english speakers over time. If you just entered HSK 1 you would learn more complex phrases but be used to it by HSK 2 and be fine until HSK 6 where u learn 信 (classical chinese)
I can't accept that . I can prove to you that arabic is the hardest language in the world . First I am an arabic man . I am from syria . I am learning my arabic " my language " more than 12 years and I still can't finish it . Then , this language has more than 12 millions words . Moreover , it has a lot of pillars like rhetoric , grammar " it has more than 200 grammar but not any grammar you know . I would like to show you a similar words that have different means : إنَّ إن أنَّ this word maybe noon or virb أن
Korean has grammatical similarity to Indian languages as well as alphabet. That could be the reason why it's not that hard for Indians and difficult for English speakers.
I think it depends on your native language. In Turkey, there are a lot of people who learn Korean and they say it is not hard. And even some people say "Korean is not hard as English. My Korean is better than my English" because Korean and Turkish are quite similar in grammar. I don't know your native language but as i know Korean and Tamil are close to each other as well.
The alphabet, Hangul, is very simple. The grammar seems like a nightmare though. From my pov it seems very similar to Japanese as a language, just with some slightly more complex grammar and a much more simple alphabet / character system.
I am Korean. Hangeul is the easiest and simplest alphabet in the world to learn. However, Korean is a really difficult language. The reason why Hangeul is easy to learn is because it is as simple as ㄱ,ㄴ,ㄷ,ㄹ,ㅁ,ㅂ.... However, unlike English, Korean combines consonants and vowels. And another reason why Korean is difficult is that there are many words that express something that have the same meaning in Korean.
@@jasmine6170 When I said that, I mean grammar. This is because English is in the order of subject, verb, and object, but Korean is in order of subject, object, and verb. In addition, there are 8 parts of speech in English and 9 parts of speech in Korean. So it means that studying grammar, not memorizing words, is difficult.
If Mandarine is so difficult to learn for English speakers, why are more people learning it than Cantonese. I can construct perhaps a dozen sentences in Japanese which is a dozen more than I can in any language other than English and French...okay I grew up hearing Japanese...
As someone who is currently learning Arabic with no previous exposure to the language it is actually pretty easy. I think it all just depends on the teacher you get
For me knowing Persian is helpful, it's the same writing, lots of common vocabulary. Only difference is Arabic is semitic and Persian is Indo-European so the grammar is very dissimilar.
As someone who learned Finnish I’d say it’s really not that difficult. There’s a lot of rules, but at least it’s consistent and very intuitive. It’s hard because it takes time to speak with proper grammar. But you could easily get your point across after just a year of studying it.
the hardest part of japanese is kanji, because japanese kanji is different from chinese hanzi. most of japanese kanji has 2 or 3 even more pronunciation. 日 : ni 日 : nichi 日 : hi, bi, pi 日 : jitsu 日 : ka 日 : tachi 日 nichi + 記 ki = 日記 nikki 日 nichi + 本 hon = 日本 nippon 日 nichi + 清 sin = 日清 nissin 日 nichi + 中 chuu = 日中 nicchuu 日 nichi + 程 tei = 日程 nittei
yeah definitely, and especially with tonal words that depend on the partical like はな which can mean nose or flower based on the tone of the following partical が
Cantonese is much more difficult than Mandarin. Your list is simplified based on most commonly know languages. It doesn’t include all the complicated languages such as ones in Africa like Xhosa that uses clicks, there’s even one that uses whistling, and indigenous native Americans such as Diné Bizaad of the Navajo people.
Mandarin isn't even the toughest Chinese language, Cantonese has tougher grammar, 6 tones (Mandarin only has 4) and there are less resources to learn it, plus it uses the traditional characters, which are slightly different from most Chinese languages which use simplified
As someone of Basque ethnicity, I think Basque is the hardest on this list. I only know basic words such as hello and mom. Not only does Basque have such complex case declension, meaning a single word can take up over 200 forms, there are also very few resources to learn this language. Compared to most language isolates like Korean and Japanese, Basque has little media out there to help learn. I've wanted to learn the language that my family was forbidden to speak for decades but it's been so hard to find a course. I speak Spanish and English fluently and natively and I've been learning Japanese for 3 years, I think it comes down to the individual but also how many resources and media there are for the language.
@@vpansf The same thing happened in France with Basque, Britton, Créole and other regional languages in the early 20th century to force people to learn "proper" French. Now a lot of schools create programs to bring back theses languages and make sure they Don't get lost.
Where do you live? If you live in the Basque Country it is quite easy to find resources to learn the language. If you live abroad search EITB, AEK HABE...
@@vpansf It was forbidden in the past because of the dictator Franco. He prohibited the use of the language until he passed away in 1975. Now it is being brought back and many people speak it, up to 750.000 people.
Mandarin is the hardest because each letter have they're own meaning, but not only that they would also have they're own meaning if u speak it in a different tone, not to mention the actual alphabet is like hell to write.
The tonal part is not that hard. The tones are mostly easy to separate and if you hear a lot of that language, youll get used to it. Remembering the hanzi is the only hard part of the language. At least you can always type in pin yin if you know how it is pronounced
As a Croatian, I think Turkish is one of the most difficult languages. A verb can change 4 or 5 times depending on the subject and only the first two letters of the verb do not change and all the other letters change
@@graceh.9015 For example, some letters change, such as the letter 'k' becomes the letter 'g', the letter 't' becomes the letter 'd', for example, when you say the word "renk" for me, we normally use the suffix 'im', but it is not said "my renkim", the letter k is dropped, the letter g comes and it becomes "my rengim". This was just a small example and in Turkey, the letter R is not readable even if it is written everywhere. And everything is added from the end, we always look at the end of the sentence. The verb "etmek" (edeceğim, edeceksin, edecek) changed most of its letters. I thought it was easy before I started Turkish, but it would be difficult to develop, not reading all the letters in the word, adding everything from the end, it has nothing to do with English.
I'm also a Muslim, and I did quit reading Quran for a long time so I forgot how to read Arabic, but it's definitely not easy💀. Remember when we had to learn all the pronunciations before actually reading the Quran? We had to literally learn 100+ letters. It takes months. My siblings and friends had a hard time pronouncing "Quaf"..
Actually picked Japanese up rather easy when I was in high school, and college. Not because of anime either but I was surrounded by a lot of weaboos. 😂 I wanted Mandarin or Cantonese but it wasn't offered. Hirogana and Katakana weren't particularly difficult or speaking it but Kanji always kicked my ass.
I’ve been learning Japanese for 3 years now. I started cause I was bored but now I’m almost fluent. You’re right though, Kanji sucks ass. And we’re supposed to recognize over 2,000 of them!
For me the hardest part by far is the grammar and nuances. Learning more vocabulary also results in more kanji acquired, so it’s more of a passive thing, at least in my experience.
Currently learning Hungarian amongst a bunch of other ones and like, it's not awful, but it's definitely harder than even Russian. The way words interact with each other is completely different, but if you learn some linguistic concepts it becomes easier to grasp.
Korean is not hard language for english speaker its can be hard but if you have kind of turkish grammar you can learn in a year turkish is more harder than korean and you need to add georgian language too its hard language
I speak nearly fluent Japanese, having lived in japan several years and been in relationship with a Japanese girl, it was honestly pretty easy to learn (the speaking, not the writing, kanji is very difficult to learn) I took some Spanish in high school and found Japanese much easier to learn, the pronunciation is so simple
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@@akhenakin5548yeah… but unlike mandarin, vietnamese sounds are very far from english or western languages in terms of sounds, it has 8 (depending in how u count) complex tones, spelling can be confusing, they follow a different word order than chinese, english, and most western languages (SVO)
im chinese and i speak english as a first language :) might not be surprising but yeah- chinese is very hard for ppl who dont know- bcs you cant spell out chinese words, they are strokes. chinese grammar and english grammar is totally different for example: in english you would do: “Did you eat your lunch yet?” Mary questioned in chinese: 马丽说：”你吃了午餐了吗？” the word placing and stuffs are different so be careful thats it for the small chinese lesson
Have you guys ever learned this language...?Its a normal language from my Country..... It is..... Filipino, Like.... He forgot Filipino-😭 (Its actually tricky to learn if you aren't From the Philippines)
Yeah, with its difficult pronounciations and killer grammar, I imagine Georgian has all the difficulties combined by Polish, Hungarian, Finnish and Arabic etc. So, people who make such lists probably do not actually know about a lot of languages. They just choose from the cultures known to them.
@@pancake7417 I mean if you learn the alphabets it becomes little bit easy to learn the language. And I learnt Korean alphabet in 10 minutes ..and in 6-7 months now, am able to read write and understand Korean 🙂🙂
I'm from India but I know Korea because I'm kdrama fan why didn't you tell india Hindi is difficult language to me because I don't no hindi i tried so many but I fail my language is English and Malayalam ,🇮🇳♥️♥️
Icelandic keeps a lot of writing, pronunciation and rules from Old Norse that are now archaic in English which can easily make it confusing. At least that's what I'm assuming
Ok so i live in Sweden, and we kinda understand Norwegian and Danish.. BUT FINNISH🇫🇮! I dont even know 1 word, so weird language No hate to any 🇫🇮 person out there, but you guys gotta agree!
@༼ཆ༽ true, the grammar is very hard. I am a Chinese learner, and my brother was a japanese learner. We both share experiences on what we have just learned. I heard it was hard, and i tried learning Japanese myself. It's the grammar that's very hard, but some words can be the same pronouncation but different meanings (although, there is a SLIGHT difference sometimes.)
How much months did you took? Being fluent is japanese isn't easy -- unless you took too much hard work and effort into learning it. :) it won't take years if you did some effective learning...! :0
I am a Bangladeshi but I can speak Arabic it's not that hard I also speak Korean very well because I live in Korea for 7 years and I also can speak Hindi.
@@cloud_8821 *oh thanks man, I'm keen interest to learn korean. Initially I feel that it's much difficult task but now I feel that I can learn. Thanks for lil motivation.*
Pretty much none of these are the hardest languages to learn, because they all have extensive learning materials in various formats and 24/7 availability of tutors/speakers across the world to learn from.
I’ve never understood these lists… these languages are just so different that you can’t actually compare them to eachother. I’m native Hungarian, I’ve had studied Chinese for 4 years, still studying English and I just started studying Polish last year. Each language has their own difficulties. English has 12 tenses. Polish has 7 grammatical cases, the language on it’s own is a tongue twister and it also has 3 grammatical genders. Hungarian has 18 grammatical cases, it’s an agglutinating language and we use vowel harmony. The Chinese writing system is difficult and the tones are hard to remember to, pronounce them good but on the other hand… it’s grammar is 0. It would make more sense for me if you’d have compared Hungarian to Finnish for example.🇭🇺🫶🏻🇵🇱🇫🇮
@mag-hureem-kasikasi. igen. finntanácsköztársaságföldön we do understand -ban/-on and jóBB and észtÜL suffixes easier but anglok more difficult at first.
As a mandarin speaker, English is super easy for me. But I see a lot of second language learners struggling with speaking Mandarin well. The tune of every character is very tricky to get right. So yes, no 1 difficult is justified.
@@КонстантинАктыбаев I agree, I speak Polish and sometimes it is difficult for me to I agree, I speak Polish and sometimes it is difficult for me to speak
Vocabulary can be easy, because all share the same roots. But Japanese grammer can be hell, and Korean is even worse. It’s an alien concept to people that don’t speak it. Chinese grammer isn’t that bad compared to the other two.
the best way to learn is using textbooks that let you learn at your own pace, reading books in that language, watching movies in that language, and going to that country.
@@RisumiesNewGenyeah like im a native Arabic speaker, so if i try to learn languages like turkish, persian or urdu it will be easier for me just because of how similar these languages are. So it's like the native language you speak, determines which languages would be easier to learn.
@@YKG-91 correct, also Finnish is easier to learn for anyone who is from Latin Europe, like France, Spain, Italy and Portugal for example, since the way they talk is similar to Finnish, considering they don't change their tone from higher to lower like germanic speaking do.
@@ftsher_ Sanskrit is not dead, Indian schools still have subject from 6th-8th. But Sanskrit is only spoke widely in one town of India. It's sad that oldest language is disappearing so fast.
@@EsTYV284 So in your school- first language is English, second language Bengali, then third Hindi? In my school(Delhi-NCR) we had English, Hindi and then students had to choose between Sanskrit and French.
@@edenhazard2751no, a dead language is a language which has no native speakers and every sanskrit speaker learned it later in life, and not as a first language
@@candycorntails as a Arabic native speaker I can say that 100% if you want to master Arabic as a foreigner it's hell because we have countless words and every country speaks differently a little bit but the main Arabic the we call "الفصحى" Is probably one of the biggest languages in the world when it comes to vocabulary and complexity mandrian Chinese is hard too
Korean is kind of easy to learn because it has 24 letters but you gotta combine them to write the word so it’s like easier to pronounce because you just gotta pronounce how those letter pronounce but they have really a lot word with 24 letters which is amazing this is what I like from Korean so I’m show a lot respect to sejong who mad a Korean, Hangul
The alphabet is easy but that's a trick into getting difficult grammar and vocabulary, the sounds are also a little tricky, I would say it's much easier than Japanese or the Chinese languages though
It is often said that the Japanese language is difficult, but for us Japanese, learning Western languages is also extremely difficult. If you encounter a Japanese person who can speak Western languages, he or she has lived in the West for a long time or is very elite.
I'd love to learn Japanese, I'm someone who picks up things quickly when it comes to things I like (music ,movies ....etc) and I do pick up a lot when watching foreign movies like korean, italian and more but with Japanese, even tho I've been watching anime for so long now, and even though I know a lot of of words and expressions, I find it hard to form a sentence or to see patterns when it comes to how sentences are formed, on the contrary I've been familiar with korean series for not as long as Japanese but it's really easy for me to see the patterns and know how to form a sentence. Still I'm really determined to learn it.
Because they live in the US!! We learn English in schools, so we can make and read a sentence in english, but many Japanese people can't speak and catch words in a conversation. I guess it's because our education system. We don't have many opportunities to speak or hear English. Those opportunities have been increasing in recent years though.
Icelandic is actually a category 1 language, like every other Norse / Germanic language - it’s way easier than I thought it would be at first, even though when I first started learning it I thought it was category 2 due to the vowels with accents, but Icelandic words are way easier to pronounce and to spell than German and French and Spanish words which can be with random accents or with many consonant clusters, because in Norse languages the vowels with accents are in fact different sounds and not actual accents, so Icelandic is easier than German / French / Spanish which are also category 1, and Slovene is also category 1, and Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian are category 2 languages, so these languages should be on easy languages lists! By the way, things such as language difficulty and prettiness etc are very objective facts, and the language difficulty level is determined by the aspect / type of writing system / alphabet used (the Latin alphabet is the easiest and most practical alphabet ever created) and the prettiness / memorability level of most of the words (pretty and distinctive words are naturally easy to learn) and the level of organization and lightness and by how easy or hard the pronunciation is etc, and pretty languages aka languages with mostly pretty words are automatically easy to learn, while the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish are the easiest to learn, and, all Germanic languages and the Celtic languages and the true Latin languages are all easy languages! Polish and Czech are category 4 languages tho not among the hardest ever, Russian and other similar languages using the Cyrillic alphabet are category 5, Navajo is category 6 or 7, Vietnamese is category 7, Thai and Indian languages are category 8 languages, Arabic languages and Korean are all category 9 languages, Japanese and Chinese languages are all category 10 languages with the hardest writing systems, which are not actual alphabets, but characters, that also have the hardest pronunciation which has tones and pitch accents!
The Arabic language is the most difficult for me because even Arabs do not reach the level of mastering it due to its extreme difficulty. According to sources, references, and dictionaries of the Arabic language, the number of words in the Arabic language is 12,302,912 words without repetition.
If Russian is difficult due to cyrillic, then every language which doesn't use latin script is difficult, and so, there are more than 10 difficult languages already, and more than 10 of them are more difficult than Russian.
Well good luck with understandingأفاستسقيناكموها Wich simply means Didn't we provide you two to drink with it? Like something linke that but i am not sure with it
Hungarian is tricky because it's agglutinative, even for us native Slavic speakers who know a thing or two about difficult language. :D Besides different grammar and syntax compared to Indo-European languages, one other thing that makes it additionally difficult is lack of similar stems to hold onto. There is no familiarity (well, except for mačka, suknja and some other words that were loaned from Hungarian into Croatian, but that's about it).
Na hallod, én ha magyar nyelvi oktatóvideót nézek itt a yt-on, 10 perc után rendszerint megfájdul a fejem. Ha külföldi lennék, meg se piszkálnám ezt a nyelvet!
I'm a native Hungarian teacher of English and German, I'd say anyone who can learn Hungarian as a foreign language deserves MASSIVE respect, as it's as difficult as it gets. The many nuanced rules, the vowel harmony, the conjugation, and of course the more advanced rules that even Hungarians tend to be unaware of (like the 1st, 2nd and 3rd mozgószabály) make the whole thing close to impossible to master. I have a relative that learnt Hungarian in his 20s, he still speaks with an accent and couldn't get the grammar down perfectly, but he's fluent. Respect for anyone like him lol
Bro I’m Navajo and it’s hard to learn since barely anybody speaks it. If they do, some can’t even speak English. The thing is, Navajo originally doesn’t have any writing. My dad told me that he learned just from listening, and that was it. It’s a language you have to pick up naturally when you’re young. Luckily I’m still young and my brain is still growing, so I strive to learn from my dad.
That's must be very hard and you guys need to learn hard since kindergarten. But it's very nice to keep it like a part of your culture. I'm from Czech Republic we have like 10milions speaker which is small in whole world.
As a chinese i think mandarin is quite hard but once you learn mandarin you have access to learn Japanese or Korean (mostly japanese due to its similar writing) i am currently learning mandarin and japanese and in my opinion the hardest goes to arabic, Tamil and Malayalam
@@フェムエン my grandmother watches Chinese tv shows based on pop music, then sometimes I hear them try to sing Cantonese because they want to try it out I can’t speak Cantonese but my mother taught me like some words or smth but then I am fluent listening to what they said lol
Where is indian languages like Hindi ,Malayalam, tamil, sanskrit etc.. any English people can't speak malayalam properly if he studied it for so many years
*goes to duolingo aggressively*
Icelandic and Gothic and Norse and Faroese are some of the easiest category 1 languages with very easy category 1 pronunciation and the word memorability / prettiness of the words from the easiest languages ever like English and Dutch and Norwegian, Hungarian is a mid category 2 language that also has easy pronunciation and very memorable words, and Finnish / Estonian / Latvian are category 2 languages as well that are just slightly harder to memorize than Hungarian etc, they are among the easiest languages with very light spelling that use normal letters (the Latin alphabet aka the easiest alphabet ever) and don’t belong on this list, they should be on easy languages lists, tho I guess it’s still good that they were at least included on a list, as they don’t get included often, tho they should be among the top recommendations on every language recommendation list as the Norse languages like Icelandic and Norse etc are the most alpha languages ever created and are among the prettiest ever like English and Dutch etc, and Hungarian is also very pretty as most Hungarian words are very pretty and easy to memorize, as one naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster! 🇮🇸
Navajo is a category 6 language, harder than Russian which is category 5 with different alphabet, and harder than category 4 languages such as Polish and Czech with very heavy spelling that isn’t easy to read, which are definitely not easier than Icelandic which has a way lighter spelling that is lighter than the spelling of French or German etc and is very easy to read, so it isn’t easier than Hungarian - I am learning Icelandic and Norse and all other Germanic languages and Hungarian and Finnish etc, and they are all very easy to read / learn, náda ‘hard’ about them, tho any language is going to seem ‘hard’ to a beginner, I guess, but, the real hard languages that are objectively hard are category 6 to category 10 languages with odd scripts and characters and tones etc that are impossible to read / memorize / pronounce etc!
By the way, my current levels are...
- upper intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / German
- writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish
- upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian
- intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian / Welsh
- beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene
- total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / Urkers / Hunsrik / East Norse / Ruhrpöttisch / Alemannic / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Pälzische Deutsch / Austrian German / Waddisch / Palatine German / Westföälsk Sassisk / Austro-Bavarian / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / Sognamål / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Yiddish / Afrikaans / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc)
(I highly recommend learning Dutch / Icelandic + Norse + Faroese / Norwegian as they are so magical, as pretty / refined / poetic as English - all other Germanic and the other pretty languages on my list are also gorgeous, so they are all a great option!)
The correct rankings are...
Icelandic / Norse / Faroese and Slovene are category 1 languages, and Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian are category 2 languages - they should be on easy languages list, they don’t belong on this list, as do all other Germanic languages!
Irish and Scottish Gaelic are category 3 languages, still pretty easy, compared to most others!
Czech and Polish are category 4 languages with very heavy spelling!
Russian is a category 5 language using a different alphabet!
Navajo is a category 6 or category 7 language, totally not easier than Hungarian lol!
Thai and Vietnamese are category 8 and 7 languages, extremely difficult to learn / memorize / understand or to differentiate between such short words that sound exactly the same, same as Chinese and Korean words!
Arabic and Korean are category 9 languages, impossible to read and to understand short words that sound exactly the same!
Japanese is category 9.5 or 10, as its writing is as hard as that of Chinese, honestly, only the pronunciation is slightly less complicated, but it still has pitch accents, which are similar to tones!
Cantonese and Mandarin are category 10 languages, as both the characters and the tonal pronunciation are category ten, and they have up to eight tones!
I only started learning languages on my own about one year ago, and am learning 15+ languages at the same time, and I am already upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse and German and advanced level in Norwegian Bokmål and upper advanced level in Dutch and mid intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian and intermediate level in Welsh and upper beginner level in multiple other languages - the key to being a successful polyglot is, always choosing wisely, by only choosing the pretty and easy languages (the languages that are on my list of languages I want to learn and improve) for their pretty words and sounds, as one can literally learn five or ten or even fifteen easy and pretty languages at the same time, and in a few years one can reach fluency in most of them, as opposed to only trying to learn one impossible language (that doesn’t even sound good) that one shall never reach true fluency in, not even after decades, so one should always choose wisely, and, I highly recommend learning the gorgeous Icelandic + Norse and Dutch and Norwegian as they are as pretty / refined / poetic as English and a must-know for every learner, definitely way too pretty not to know! 🇮🇸
The difficulty of language learning depends on the similarity between the learner's native language and the language being studied.
Yes, that's why "isolated" languages appear here: Japanese and Basque have no living relatives.
@@maeslor Apparently you are unaware of the high similarity between Japanese and Korean. Also, Japan, China, and Taiwan have kanji cultures that make it easy for them to learn each other's languages.
To be fair, he did say "for English speakers".
@@maeslorFinnish is not isolated? But hungarian is also here, so finno-ugric is hard.
@@Heuroya Languages can be somewhat similar without having close relatives. Especially when it comes to vocabulary.
Navajo at 8 is wild. They have like 70 different versions of the same word lol
Arabic has the most words if thats the standard
@@blueierblue4499 I know Arabic. It has a lot of forms, but not as crazy as Navajo.. Just read up a bit of their grammar and you'll see grammar rules you've never even imagined.
@@senantiasa arabic still has the hardest grammar with the hardest sounds to pronounce and over 12M words with no written vowels most of the time
@@JolivoHY9 How would you know Arabic grammar is harder than Navajo if you don't know any Navajo grammar? That's like saying person A is taller or shorter than person B despite never having seen person B.
@@senantiasa cuz it is. why do you think navajo's grammar is harder?
As an English speaker, Arabic looks like Minecraft enchantment table 💀
Edit: CAN Y'ALL CHILL ITS JUST AN OPINION 😭
I think Hebrew is much more like enchantment table than Arabic
@@Raff31pretty much the enchantment table is from another game i think it was the galactical alphabet
Lol i know a bit of arabic
Bruh I learn Arabic ngl it's ez for me
It is semetic
Sanskrit:ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF
"As you can see, it is a total fallacy that learning Sanskrit is difficult. It is one of the easiest languages to learn because of its disciplinary grammar and syntax. Every four years, the World Sanskrit Conference is held, as are numerous smaller conferences devoted to various aspects of the language."
Copy pasted from Google... so don't ask me
@@GargantuanNarrativesSo any foreigner can learn it easily...
🇮🇳 india 🖐world second language Sanskrit 😊
Malayalam just laughing in the corner
@@betaSushiYTJ Tamil just tell all language are my foot 😒
I think Navajo is the hardest based of there little information online, there’s tones, object shape classes…
Navajo is weapon.
Still a weapon!
Bro Doesn't have any ear💀💀💀💀
You're right bro😂, I hadn't realized 🤣
😂😂
Ears*
🤣🤣🤣🤣 *insert goofy laughing*
Icelandic and Gothic and Norse and Faroese are some of the easiest category 1 languages with very easy category 1 pronunciation and the word memorability / prettiness of the words from the easiest languages ever like English and Dutch and Norwegian, Hungarian is a mid category 2 language that also has easy pronunciation and very memorable words, and Finnish / Estonian / Latvian are category 2 languages as well that are just slightly harder to memorize than Hungarian etc, they are among the easiest languages with very light spelling that use normal letters (the Latin alphabet aka the easiest alphabet ever) and don’t belong on this list, they should be on easy languages lists, tho I guess it’s still good that they were at least included on a list, as they don’t get included often, tho they should be among the top recommendations on every language recommendation list as the Norse languages like Icelandic and Gothic and Norse etc are the most alpha languages ever created and are among the prettiest ever like English and Dutch and Norwegian etc, and Hungarian is also very pretty as most Hungarian words are very pretty and easy to memorize, as one naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster! 🇮🇸
Native Finnish speaker here, almost fluent in English and been learning Japanese for a bit over a year now!
Just curious, what is the thing holding you down from being fluent in English?
@@namenotfound8186 I'm not confident with speaking, because I get to practice it so rarely. And every time I've encountered an english speaking person here, they've had a really strong accent that was neither British nor American and I couldn't understand them very well.
@@pawelowi7528If you want to fully learn English whether that is British or American English, just take a vacation to the UK or US and you’ll pick up on all the slang and accent very quickly. Also if you go learn a fourth language such as French, German, Greek, or Latin it will be much easier. English shares many common words with those four languages and so learning one of them can help with English.
@@epicmatter3512 I have no trouble undestanding British or American English. The hardest accents for me to understand are from countries where English is not the primary language (Estonia for example). I've picked up a fair amount of slang by regularly talking to friends online, but it has always been over text, never in a voice chat.
I know Finnish too: Yolopuki valio
I’m learning mandarin and it isn’t that hard all it is, is how much your practice and concentration of learning and stay consistent
I am from karnataka I know tamil, kannada, english, telugu, and hindi
But Malyalam is the toughest 😅
yea lol my friends are malayali and i know how hard malayali is. i am bengali btw.
are there niggas too?
Malayali pwoli aahda mwone😁
Not that much hard ... Mandarin, Korean even Cantonese are way tougher than malayalam... I am a Malaysian tamil , I know that
Dude it depends , for different speakers different language is different, for East Asians English is most difficult, and most of the people find East Asian languages difficult due to its ronal Nature. Indeed malyali is toughest language in India followed by Urdu, sanskrit, telegu and Tamil.
As a Taiwanese(Traditional Chinese), Mandarin has a simple grammar system, which built on its complex characters.
I am American learning Chinese. I have studied other languages, including classical and eastern languages, and Chinese has BY FAR the most simple grammar. It has been the easiest to study. I feel little are deterred by tones, and never look farther than that.
你好
我愛台湾🇹🇼❤
Simplify Mandarin is confusing, I don't like PingYing which makes no sense
It's easy to learn how to speak.
It's another thing when it comes to read and write...
I agree, mandarin chinese does have a simple grammar system. But it gets harder and harder for english speakers over time. If you just entered HSK 1 you would learn more complex phrases but be used to it by HSK 2 and be fine until HSK 6 where u learn 信 (classical chinese)
Polish 🇵🇱
Icelandic 🇮🇸
Navajo
Basque
Finnish 🇫🇮
Korean 🇰🇷
Hungarian 🇭🇺
Japanese 🇯🇵
Arabic
Mandarin 🇨🇳
I can't accept that .
I can prove to you that arabic is the hardest language in the world .
First I am an arabic man . I am from syria . I am learning my arabic " my language " more than 12 years and I still can't finish it .
Then , this language has more than 12 millions words .
Moreover , it has a lot of pillars like rhetoric , grammar " it has more than 200 grammar but not any grammar you know . I would like to show you a similar words that have different means :
إنَّ
إن
أنَّ this word maybe noon or virb
أن
I was learning Korean
And I have done my corse to learn Korean and its not too hard 🇰🇷💜
Korean has grammatical similarity to Indian languages as well as alphabet. That could be the reason why it's not that hard for Indians and difficult for English speakers.
I think it depends on your native language. In Turkey, there are a lot of people who learn Korean and they say it is not hard. And even some people say "Korean is not hard as English. My Korean is better than my English" because Korean and Turkish are quite similar in grammar. I don't know your native language but as i know Korean and Tamil are close to each other as well.
The alphabet, Hangul, is very simple. The grammar seems like a nightmare though. From my pov it seems very similar to Japanese as a language, just with some slightly more complex grammar and a much more simple alphabet / character system.
좋아요, 제가 무슨 말을 하는지 말씀해 주시겠어요?
Korean didn't seem hard to me
I am Korean.
Hangeul is the easiest and simplest alphabet in the world to learn.
However, Korean is a really difficult language.
The reason why Hangeul is easy to learn is because it is as simple as ㄱ,ㄴ,ㄷ,ㄹ,ㅁ,ㅂ.... However, unlike English, Korean combines consonants and vowels.
And another reason why Korean is difficult is that there are many words that express something that have the same meaning in Korean.
I’ve been learning Korean for 2 months now and I already know so many words and sentences so I would say that for me its not that hard to learn it.
@@jasmine6170 When I said that, I mean grammar. This is because English is in the order of subject, verb, and object, but Korean is in order of subject, object, and verb. In addition, there are 8 parts of speech in English and 9 parts of speech in Korean. So it means that studying grammar, not memorizing words, is difficult.
@@율리바드
Is it possible to learn Korean within 3 months? I just want to understand conversations in Korean, don't want to be able to speak fluently!
@@jasmine6170but adding particles is hella hard
How is hangeul easier than latin or cyrilic? Im russian i speak both english and korean and latin was so much easier for me to pick up than hangeul
If Mandarine is so difficult to learn for English speakers, why are more people learning it than Cantonese.
I can construct perhaps a dozen sentences in Japanese which is a dozen more than I can in any language other than English and French...okay I grew up hearing Japanese...
As someone who is currently learning Arabic with no previous exposure to the language it is actually pretty easy. I think it all just depends on the teacher you get
hello iam Arabic i can help u if u wante🖤
Me: But I’m teaching myself👁👄👁
For me knowing Persian is helpful, it's the same writing, lots of common vocabulary. Only difference is Arabic is semitic and Persian is Indo-European so the grammar is very dissimilar.
i also am learning arabic🤍all the best to you fam
@@mobinmirshekari4884 Lmk do you know Persian language ?
As someone who learned Finnish I’d say it’s really not that difficult. There’s a lot of rules, but at least it’s consistent and very intuitive. It’s hard because it takes time to speak with proper grammar. But you could easily get your point across after just a year of studying it.
the hardest part of japanese is kanji, because japanese kanji is different from chinese hanzi. most of japanese kanji has 2 or 3 even more pronunciation.
日 : ni
日 : nichi
日 : hi, bi, pi
日 : jitsu
日 : ka
日 : tachi
日 nichi + 記 ki = 日記 nikki
日 nichi + 本 hon = 日本 nippon
日 nichi + 清 sin = 日清 nissin
日 nichi + 中 chuu = 日中 nicchuu
日 nichi + 程 tei = 日程 nittei
yeah definitely, and especially with tonal words that depend on the partical like はな which can mean nose or flower based on the tone of the following partical が
We also have “生”🤦♀️
I think it has more than 150…?
@@Misoshiruuuu 本当ね？！
Japanese kanzi? it's Chinese Hanzi. Kan/Han = Chinese main nation
@@loganwong3012 that's why I called it "Kanji" not "Hanzi"
*漢字*
Mandarin : Hanzi
Japanese : Kanji
Korean : Hanja
Vietnamese : Han Tu
Here's me trying to learn some Arabic and Japanese. Apparently, I like to make my life difficult. Might as well throw some Mandarin in there, too.
مرحباً
well if you are learning Japanese then it means you are learning Kanji, so in a way you are already learning mandarin
wait what kanji in japanese and mandarin are the same? (i am also learning japanese) @@Katzeleben6028
I know this is old but I like that you added Navajo a native language that was kind of cool
Cantonese is much more difficult than Mandarin. Your list is simplified based on most commonly know languages. It doesn’t include all the complicated languages such as ones in Africa like Xhosa that uses clicks, there’s even one that uses whistling, and indigenous native Americans such as Diné Bizaad of the Navajo people.
انا أستطيع التحدث بالعربية بعد سنوات أخيرا!
I can speak Arabic after years finally!!
كيفك شو بتعمل بحياتك
تهانينا🥳🎉
تهانينا لك 🤯🎉🎇😘 و إذا أردت أن تصقل العربية بأمكنك مشاهدة الرسوم المتحركة بالعربية القديمة عالم اخرى
Mandarin isn't even the toughest Chinese language, Cantonese has tougher grammar, 6 tones (Mandarin only has 4) and there are less resources to learn it, plus it uses the traditional characters, which are slightly different from most Chinese languages which use simplified
As someone of Basque ethnicity, I think Basque is the hardest on this list. I only know basic words such as hello and mom.
Not only does Basque have such complex case declension, meaning a single word can take up over 200 forms, there are also very few resources to learn this language. Compared to most language isolates like Korean and Japanese, Basque has little media out there to help learn. I've wanted to learn the language that my family was forbidden to speak for decades but it's been so hard to find a course.
I speak Spanish and English fluently and natively and I've been learning Japanese for 3 years, I think it comes down to the individual but also how many resources and media there are for the language.
Why is it forbidden to speak Basque?
@@vpansf The same thing happened in France with Basque, Britton, Créole and other regional languages in the early 20th century to force people to learn "proper" French. Now a lot of schools create programs to bring back theses languages and make sure they Don't get lost.
aye my basque brother
Where do you live?
If you live in the Basque Country it is quite easy to find resources to learn the language.
If you live abroad search EITB, AEK HABE...
@@vpansf It was forbidden in the past because of the dictator Franco. He prohibited the use of the language until he passed away in 1975. Now it is being brought back and many people speak it, up to 750.000 people.
Mandarin is the hardest because each letter have they're own meaning, but not only that they would also have they're own meaning if u speak it in a different tone, not to mention the actual alphabet is like hell to write.
try learning traditional Chinese / Cantonese lol
The tonal part is not that hard. The tones are mostly easy to separate and if you hear a lot of that language, youll get used to it. Remembering the hanzi is the only hard part of the language. At least you can always type in pin yin if you know how it is pronounced
@@Bacon_HK Sadly you cant really learn cantonese if youre outside of south china or taiwan. You can look for a teacher but theyre rare and expensive.
German: Should we tell him?
Hebrew: Nope!
أّنِأّ عٌربًيِّ
أّنِأّ أّلَلَغُةّ أّلَعٌربًيِّةّ 🇸🇦سِـهّـلَةّ جّـدٍأًّ
صّـدٍقُ أّوٌ لَأّ تٌـصّـدٍقُ!! ❤
يااخي طبعا سهله لانك تتحدثها من الاصل لو كنت اجنبي كنت صفيت جنبهم
تحياتي من العراق العظيم ❤❤😊
@@alianwer6765 أنا هم عراقية 🙌🙃
سهلة!!! اصعب مادة بالمدرسة والجامعة كانت اللغة العربية "بالنسبة لي😅"
아랍어를 노트에 적으려면 아주 가는 펜이 있어야할듯. 글자 위에 작은 기호들이 아주 많네
@@ooooO-0ooooصحيح، صعبة تحتاج وقت كثير
As a Croatian, I think Turkish is one of the most difficult languages. A verb can change 4 or 5 times depending on the subject and only the first two letters of the verb do not change and all the other letters change
turkish is one of the easiest languages ever. once u figure out a few words u can compose ur own sentences ...
@@graceh.9015 For example, some letters change, such as the letter 'k' becomes the letter 'g', the letter 't' becomes the letter 'd', for example, when you say the word "renk" for me, we normally use the suffix 'im', but it is not said "my renkim", the letter k is dropped, the letter g comes and it becomes "my rengim". This was just a small example and in Turkey, the letter R is not readable even if it is written everywhere. And everything is added from the end, we always look at the end of the sentence. The verb "etmek" (edeceğim, edeceksin, edecek) changed most of its letters. I thought it was easy before I started Turkish, but it would be difficult to develop, not reading all the letters in the word, adding everything from the end, it has nothing to do with English.
Whoever says that Arabic is difficult is wrong. I am Egyptian, and from my opinion , the Arabic language is easy ❤
Sanskrit : , if you can't learn chinese , and russian
Never try me ,i am harder as they are
Arabic was the easiest for me
I am not a native Arabic speaker but Arabic is the Quranic language
This,learnt it faster from childhood
I'm also a Muslim, and I did quit reading Quran for a long time so I forgot how to read Arabic, but it's definitely not easy💀. Remember when we had to learn all the pronunciations before actually reading the Quran? We had to literally learn 100+ letters. It takes months. My siblings and friends had a hard time pronouncing "Quaf"..
quran reading is even hard for arabic native speakers@@Sandrone5225
My language is hardest.. Yes
🇵🇱
Polandd Im Hungarian🇭🇺
powinno chyba być na 4/5 miejscu
Check on google
What if, just a few years before you were born you can already speak English, Japanese, and Chinese? And your not even one of those? Is that possible?
Actually picked Japanese up rather easy when I was in high school, and college. Not because of anime either but I was surrounded by a lot of weaboos. 😂 I wanted Mandarin or Cantonese but it wasn't offered. Hirogana and Katakana weren't particularly difficult or speaking it but Kanji always kicked my ass.
I’ve been learning Japanese for 3 years now. I started cause I was bored but now I’m almost fluent. You’re right though, Kanji sucks ass. And we’re supposed to recognize over 2,000 of them!
For me the hardest part by far is the grammar and nuances. Learning more vocabulary also results in more kanji acquired, so it’s more of a passive thing, at least in my experience.
日本語を勉強してくれて嬉しい！日本人からしても漢字はめっちゃ難しい…！
Currently learning Hungarian amongst a bunch of other ones and like, it's not awful, but it's definitely harder than even Russian. The way words interact with each other is completely different, but if you learn some linguistic concepts it becomes easier to grasp.
Am hungarian!
If so Finnish, Turkish, Mongolian, Khanty and Mansi would also be hard for you as they're also all agglutinative and work like Hungarian
Pro tip : it helps if your country borders Hungary and has a Hungarian minority, so just move your country and/or invite thousands of Hungarians in
@@razvanandreiantonescurogoz4236 I could tell you a few things but not worth my time...
You are right, after understand the logic, IT is not so complicated. But yes that is harder than Russian.
Korean is not hard language for english speaker its can be hard but if you have kind of turkish grammar you can learn in a year turkish is more harder than korean and you need to add georgian language too its hard language
I speak nearly fluent Japanese, having lived in japan several years and been in relationship with a Japanese girl, it was honestly pretty easy to learn (the speaking, not the writing, kanji is very difficult to learn) I took some Spanish in high school and found Japanese much easier to learn, the pronunciation is so simple
What is the rational that Polish outranks Latvian? Estonian? Baltic Languages? Swahili? Vietnamese?
How was the ranking determined?
I from syria 🇸🇾 , so i can speak Arabic, i will say i love you in Arabic "أنا أحبك"
Türkiyeye gelen suriyelilere türkiyede arapça konuşmamalarını iletir misin
@@krckaanOkay mr.shesh khabab....... Turkey 🦃🥴
back to aramaic
*Turkish, Vietnamese, Malayalam, Cantonese, Haitan, Creole, Thai, Hindi, Tamil, Sanskirt, Telugu, Kannada, Greek and Russian left the chat*
*Turkish, Vietnamese, Malayalam, Cantonese, Haitan, Creole, Thai, Hindi, Tamil, Sanskirt, Telugu, Kannada, Greek and Russian joinned back to the chat with knives*
+Khmer
1 year is enough to be fluent arabic speaker
I think...
...Arabic is the hardest language😅🇮🇶
Not grammatically. And the dialects are much easier than standard arabic.
grammatically its the hardest @@jonathanlange1339
What's about 🇨🇿 Czech
Nah
just because you're arabic
I'm surprise that it doesn't have Vietnamese😅
vietnamese base on alphabet from latin. Not a big deal for us
@@akhenakin5548tones
@@akhenakin5548yeah… but unlike mandarin, vietnamese sounds are very far from english or western languages in terms of sounds, it has 8 (depending in how u count) complex tones, spelling can be confusing, they follow a different word order than chinese, english, and most western languages (SVO)
im chinese and i speak english as a first language :) might not be surprising but yeah- chinese is very hard for ppl who dont know-
bcs you cant spell out chinese words, they are strokes. chinese grammar and english grammar is totally different
for example: in english you would do: “Did you eat your lunch yet?” Mary questioned
in chinese: 马丽说：”你吃了午餐了吗？”
the word placing and stuffs are different so be careful
thats it for the small chinese lesson
facts
Have you guys ever learned this language...?Its a normal language from my Country..... It is..... Filipino, Like.... He forgot Filipino-😭 (Its actually tricky to learn if you aren't From the Philippines)
As a korean. Korean language is easy you can just learn it with a few hours
As a Georgian, seeing my language not being there is odd.
Yeah, with its difficult pronounciations and killer grammar, I imagine Georgian has all the difficulties combined by Polish, Hungarian, Finnish and Arabic etc.
So, people who make such lists probably do not actually know about a lot of languages. They just choose from the cultures known to them.
@@ipoop4timesaday To learn Georgian, people must first start by learning the alphabet. Same with Armenian.
youw wight😸
Definitely, I would add Georgian and Russian.
SONORITY VIOLATIONS
HORRIBLE GRAMMAR
SMALLEST VERBS
TOO MUCH CONSONANTAL CLUSTERS
Georgian left the chat🌐
I also feel like Estonian should have been higher than Finnish
And german🇩🇪
German is too easy. Any language that requires learning new phonetics is the hardest. Georgian should be atleast in top 5
Gamardjoba genazvale
ვსწავლობ ქართული და ნამდვილად ეს ძალიან მძიმეა
Russian and german be like : are we a joke for you ??
As a muslim,I can read arabic
Good
I am learning Arabic as a revert Muslim, finding it easier to learn than I thought. Very beautiful language especially when reciting Quran.
Very few can read Arabic
I’m Chinese but I still can’t read it😭
@BreazyAUNO
Basque has a flag, you might like to add it!
Lol it took me 10 minutes to learn the greetings in Korean😂😂😂
I don't think this is a sign of a language being simple.
@@pancake7417 I mean if you learn the alphabets it becomes little bit easy to learn the language. And I learnt Korean alphabet in 10 minutes ..and in 6-7 months now, am able to read write and understand Korean 🙂🙂
@@sunshine_felix07 대단한 거 같은데 한국어는 어러운 언어예요. 배우고 싶으면 열심히 공부해야 되죠? 저도 7달 전에 배우기 시작했어요, 화이팅입니다! :D
I know the alphabets in korean. I can read the word and write the word the only problem is I can understand some words
@@pancake7417 네...감사합니다 오빠 😄
BRO IM LITERALLY LEARNING JAPANESE-
私はそれが本当に上手です
As an chinese person I can confirm I had to Learn and I could not remember any word
I'm from India but I know Korea because I'm kdrama fan why didn't you tell india Hindi is difficult language to me because I don't no hindi i tried so many but I fail my language is English and Malayalam ,🇮🇳♥️♥️
Bro, languages are the easiest to score. Instead of trying other languages first improve your mother language and English is also a must to improve.
Icelandic is in the same language family as English, so I think it's harder for English speakers to learn Polish than it is to learn Icelandic.
Icelandic keeps a lot of writing, pronunciation and rules from Old Norse that are now archaic in English which can easily make it confusing. At least that's what I'm assuming
I think english is hard if we don't learn so full like me haha
Ok so i live in Sweden, and we kinda understand Norwegian and Danish.. BUT FINNISH🇫🇮! I dont even know 1 word, so weird language
No hate to any 🇫🇮 person out there, but you guys gotta agree!
I completed learning Japanese, and it was easy, I could understand anime within a week 👁👄👁
because you were hard on it
Because you are japaness
Arabic is easy
Also why I started learning the language because the subtitles have become too annoying
@༼ཆ༽ true, the grammar is very hard. I am a Chinese learner, and my brother was a japanese learner. We both share experiences on what we have just learned. I heard it was hard, and i tried learning Japanese myself. It's the grammar that's very hard, but some words can be the same pronouncation but different meanings (although, there is a SLIGHT difference sometimes.)
How much months did you took? Being fluent is japanese isn't easy -- unless you took too much hard work and effort into learning it. :) it won't take years if you did some effective learning...! :0
Me as a former german mother tongue can just say: „Der/Die/Das“
the moment i knew my own language is 2 hardest
Bro I’m an Arab my self and I was shocked to see my language is 2
@@khaledalkaabi6697 same.
I am not english native but i am from Eastern Europe and when i see arabic language i think i would not never learn it because it seems really hard.
same but my language is 1 hardest
@@andrewshepitko6354 yeah really
I am a Bangladeshi but I can speak Arabic it's not that hard I also speak Korean very well because I live in Korea for 7 years and I also can speak Hindi.
Glad to hear that .Can you understand Urdu?
Mashallah
AS A MUSLIM I HAVE TO LEARN ARABIC BUT ITS NOT TOO HARD FOR BANGLADESHISS 😅😅
As a S. Korean, Chinese and Japanese are the easiest languages to learn.
1.MALAYALAM (INDIA🇮🇳)😂
Wait the korean language is soooo easy 😭
*Are you serious?*
@@yoriichitsugikuni7668 yes i am
Yeaaa
@@cloud_8821 *oh thanks man, I'm keen interest to learn korean. Initially I feel that it's much difficult task but now I feel that I can learn. Thanks for lil motivation.*
@@yoriichitsugikuni7668 your welcome, people say it’s hard but once you learn it you’ll find it’s easy so yeah+ good luck
Pretty much none of these are the hardest languages to learn, because they all have extensive learning materials in various formats and 24/7 availability of tutors/speakers across the world to learn from.
Cantonese be like:💀
oh yeah canto harder than mandarin but i dont think its a diff language
I speak cantonese
@@cyphisoniaaaaThe 汉子 (Chinese Characters) is written the same but the pronunciation is all over the place and is completely dofferent
@@SuperflipCubingSG there is traditional and simplified
Oh man you think Cantonese is harder
Try traditional Chinese 💀💀💀
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Korean and Mandarin wasn’t that hard as i expected
I’ve never understood these lists… these languages are just so different that you can’t actually compare them to eachother. I’m native Hungarian, I’ve had studied Chinese for 4 years, still studying English and I just started studying Polish last year. Each language has their own difficulties. English has 12 tenses. Polish has 7 grammatical cases, the language on it’s own is a tongue twister and it also has 3 grammatical genders. Hungarian has 18 grammatical cases, it’s an agglutinating language and we use vowel harmony. The Chinese writing system is difficult and the tones are hard to remember to, pronounce them good but on the other hand… it’s grammar is 0.
It would make more sense for me if you’d have compared Hungarian to Finnish for example.🇭🇺🫶🏻🇵🇱🇫🇮
@mag-hureem-kasikasi. igen. finntanácsköztársaságföldön we do understand -ban/-on and jóBB and észtÜL suffixes easier but anglok more difficult at first.
japan, Korean, arabic and mandarin is actually easy for me to learn! for me it's definitely thai and Russia.. the pronunciation is hard!
As a mandarin speaker, English is super easy for me. But I see a lot of second language learners struggling with speaking Mandarin well. The tune of every character is very tricky to get right. So yes, no 1 difficult is justified.
日本語は中国語そのものよりも難しいと思います。3種類の文字があり、動詞と名詞自体は中国語よりも難しいので。私自身も中国人ですが、かなり前から日本語を学んでいます。
Im learning jappanese, i struggle with learning new language as a whole but after getting the sentence formatting down i found it pretty easy
Now say that in Japanese
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Да, водка это хорошо, но никто это не ценит
@@КонстантинАктыбаев I agree, I speak Polish and sometimes it is difficult for me to I agree, I speak Polish and sometimes it is difficult for me to speak
It isn't that extremely hard in general, especially for the very similar vocabulary.
@@Sara-fd3dd ыюфжзйчб, yea
Russian is probably one of the easiest Slavic languages
bro and I really thought I could learn Korean, Japanese and Mandarin at the same time using duolingo💀
Try Pimsleur! You can do all three languages at once, and you'll learn more in one day than three months on duolingo
Vocabulary can be easy, because all share the same roots.
But Japanese grammer can be hell, and Korean is even worse. It’s an alien concept to people that don’t speak it. Chinese grammer isn’t that bad compared to the other two.
さすがドウオリンゴでだけ出来ない、でも他の学び方使えばできる!
the best way to learn is using textbooks that let you learn at your own pace, reading books in that language, watching movies in that language, and going to that country.
Ooooh alr tysm
Mandarin: I'm the most difficult language.
Cantonese: Hold my beer.
Absolutely. Cantonese is the hardest
A lot of southern dialects in China are much harder than mandarin
Cantonese tones are way more difficult to parse for an English speaker
Cantonese is a local language. I am Chinese i I also have a local language in the place where my family is from
@@tyngju8208 it is a dialect
Duolingo: "Finnish or Finish" 💀
I speak Finnish and it's only easy if you speak estonian or swedish OR german.
@@RisumiesNewGenyeah like im a native Arabic speaker, so if i try to learn languages like turkish, persian or urdu it will be easier for me just because of how similar these languages are.
So it's like the native language you speak, determines which languages would be easier to learn.
@@YKG-91 correct, also Finnish is easier to learn for anyone who is from Latin Europe, like France, Spain, Italy and Portugal for example, since the way they talk is similar to Finnish, considering they don't change their tone from higher to lower like germanic speaking do.
perkele
@@RisumiesNewGenFinnish is nothing like Swedish or German. 😂
Sanskrit: should we tell them?
German: nah let them cook
german is relatively easy if you're an english speaker
Sanskrit is pretty easy bru it’s a writing system, I know it and I know English as well. If you mean Hindi then that’s a easier than German 😅
@@nisairshad1650🎉
Did you know that Arab people living in Germany learned the German language in 3 months?😂
@@EL-HOUR3 months? Are you crazy?
Sanskrit: should we tell them?
Malayalam: no, let them cook
Sanskrit is considered to be dead. Even though it has 5 times more speakers than icelandic
@@ftsher_ Sanskrit is not dead, Indian schools still have subject from 6th-8th. But Sanskrit is only spoke widely in one town of India. It's sad that oldest language is disappearing so fast.
@@edenhazard2751Not in our school we have Hindi/Bengali as third language some schools in wb have French/Bengali/German/Hindi,etc
@@EsTYV284 So in your school- first language is English, second language Bengali, then third Hindi?
In my school(Delhi-NCR) we had English, Hindi and then students had to choose between Sanskrit and French.
@@edenhazard2751no, a dead language is a language which has no native speakers and every sanskrit speaker learned it later in life, and not as a first language
Me realizing my language is harder then Japanese 👁👄👁
Same 👽
Yeah Arabic is way harder than Japanese
Abric is so hard
@@candycorntails as a Arabic native speaker I can say that 100% if you want to master Arabic as a foreigner it's hell because we have countless words and every country speaks differently a little bit but the main Arabic the we call "الفصحى"
Is probably one of the biggest languages in the world when it comes to vocabulary and complexity mandrian Chinese is hard too
Arabic has hardest pronunciation.
Korean is kind of easy to learn because it has 24 letters but you gotta combine them to write the word so it’s like easier to pronounce because you just gotta pronounce how those letter pronounce but they have really a lot word with 24 letters which is amazing this is what I like from Korean so I’m show a lot respect to sejong who mad a Korean, Hangul
The alphabet is easy but that's a trick into getting difficult grammar and vocabulary, the sounds are also a little tricky, I would say it's much easier than Japanese or the Chinese languages though
It is often said that the Japanese language is difficult, but for us Japanese, learning Western languages is also extremely difficult.
If you encounter a Japanese person who can speak Western languages, he or she has lived in the West for a long time or is very elite.
I know a lot of Japanese people who speak English that never left Japan.
I'd love to learn Japanese, I'm someone who picks up things quickly when it comes to things I like (music ,movies ....etc) and I do pick up a lot when watching foreign movies like korean, italian and more but with Japanese, even tho I've been watching anime for so long now, and even though I know a lot of of words and expressions, I find it hard to form a sentence or to see patterns when it comes to how sentences are formed, on the contrary I've been familiar with korean series for not as long as Japanese but it's really easy for me to see the patterns and know how to form a sentence.
Still I'm really determined to learn it.
there are many japanese people who speak fluent english with an american accent here in the US.
Because they live in the US!!
We learn English in schools, so we can make and read a sentence in english, but many Japanese people can't speak and catch words in a conversation. I guess it's because our education system. We don't have many opportunities to speak or hear English. Those opportunities have been increasing in recent years though.
You're Japanese but you speak fluent English konosaki
Duolingo be like :🗿
HELP HOW DOES IT HAVE A NECK
True
duolingo is good for vocabulary, but it teaches no grammar or conjugation or anything
Duolingo is dogshit, if you really wanna learn a new language
Icelandic is actually a category 1 language, like every other Norse / Germanic language - it’s way easier than I thought it would be at first, even though when I first started learning it I thought it was category 2 due to the vowels with accents, but Icelandic words are way easier to pronounce and to spell than German and French and Spanish words which can be with random accents or with many consonant clusters, because in Norse languages the vowels with accents are in fact different sounds and not actual accents, so Icelandic is easier than German / French / Spanish which are also category 1, and Slovene is also category 1, and Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian are category 2 languages, so these languages should be on easy languages lists!
By the way, things such as language difficulty and prettiness etc are very objective facts, and the language difficulty level is determined by the aspect / type of writing system / alphabet used (the Latin alphabet is the easiest and most practical alphabet ever created) and the prettiness / memorability level of most of the words (pretty and distinctive words are naturally easy to learn) and the level of organization and lightness and by how easy or hard the pronunciation is etc, and pretty languages aka languages with mostly pretty words are automatically easy to learn, while the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish are the easiest to learn, and, all Germanic languages and the Celtic languages and the true Latin languages are all easy languages!
Polish and Czech are category 4 languages tho not among the hardest ever, Russian and other similar languages using the Cyrillic alphabet are category 5, Navajo is category 6 or 7, Vietnamese is category 7, Thai and Indian languages are category 8 languages, Arabic languages and Korean are all category 9 languages, Japanese and Chinese languages are all category 10 languages with the hardest writing systems, which are not actual alphabets, but characters, that also have the hardest pronunciation which has tones and pitch accents!
As an Arab, I don’t even know how to speak my own language 😭-
(I live in a different country that's why 🙏🏼 )
What kind of Arabic do you speak
@@Broke_af. what kind of Arabic
@@The_Triple_Brothersi understand darija but im learning fosha right now 😊
@@daroldcarold3443 what country Arabic
@@The_Triple_Brothers im from maghrib but im learning fosha
The Arabic language is the most difficult for me because even Arabs do not reach the level of mastering it due to its extreme difficulty.
According to sources, references, and dictionaries of the Arabic language, the number of words in the Arabic language is 12,302,912 words without repetition.
Russian: am I a joke to you?
In my opinion, Russia isn't very difficult, I'v learnt Russia at school, I think Polish is harder
In my opinion, Ukrainian and Polish languages will be more difficult than Russian
Nu vot tak prosto. Zděs Czech! :) I kak znáju Polskij tot tože tak sámij kak Českij.
If Russian is difficult due to cyrillic, then every language which doesn't use latin script is difficult, and so, there are more than 10 difficult languages already, and more than 10 of them are more difficult than Russian.
Hahaha do you really think our language is complicated? 🤣🤣🤣
In 9 years after learning Arabic I still can’t read to good💀
Edit: me Never realized that I had 180 likes
edit: Mom im less-famous
Well good luck with understandingأفاستسقيناكموها
Wich simply means Didn't we provide you two to drink with it? Like something linke that but i am not sure with it
السلام عليكم حبيبي شلونك شخبارك شكو ماكو
تتعلم شوي شوي هههه ماعتقد حتفتهم شي مني لأني عراقية حتى غوغل محيساعدك 😂
@@mashroom2927 😂😂😂
@@mashroom2927ههههههه
@@Mohamed.Atabrour انت من وين لأن كلشي مفتهمت 😭
As a Hungarian native speaker I really love that our language is almost always portrayed as some mind-breaking monster.
Hungarian is tricky because it's agglutinative, even for us native Slavic speakers who know a thing or two about difficult language. :D
Besides different grammar and syntax compared to Indo-European languages, one other thing that makes it additionally difficult is lack of similar stems to hold onto. There is no familiarity (well, except for mačka, suknja and some other words that were loaned from Hungarian into Croatian, but that's about it).
Na hallod, én ha magyar nyelvi oktatóvideót nézek itt a yt-on, 10 perc után rendszerint megfájdul a fejem. Ha külföldi lennék, meg se piszkálnám ezt a nyelvet!
Hungarian is actually related to finnish
As someone who’s trying to learn it: trust me, it is (it’s also fucking beautiful though)
I'm a native Hungarian teacher of English and German, I'd say anyone who can learn Hungarian as a foreign language deserves MASSIVE respect, as it's as difficult as it gets. The many nuanced rules, the vowel harmony, the conjugation, and of course the more advanced rules that even Hungarians tend to be unaware of (like the 1st, 2nd and 3rd mozgószabály) make the whole thing close to impossible to master. I have a relative that learnt Hungarian in his 20s, he still speaks with an accent and couldn't get the grammar down perfectly, but he's fluent. Respect for anyone like him lol
Korean was the easiest language I’ve learned in my life 😂
Korean characters are extremely easy to learn, but grammar is too difficult😢
You can literally learn it in 5 minutes. There's a TH-cam video on it.
yes! I’ve learnt multiple languages and Korean was super easy.
I want to learn korean from scratch. Please tell how can i learn it??
same whut 😂
Bro I’m Navajo and it’s hard to learn since barely anybody speaks it. If they do, some can’t even speak English. The thing is, Navajo originally doesn’t have any writing. My dad told me that he learned just from listening, and that was it. It’s a language you have to pick up naturally when you’re young. Luckily I’m still young and my brain is still growing, so I strive to learn from my dad.
I agree i still get confused trying to learn it.
BRO IM NAVAJO AND I KNOW HOW TO SAY ANYTHING
Miqmaq seems incredibly difficult.
There is Navajo writing, though...
That's must be very hard and you guys need to learn hard since kindergarten. But it's very nice to keep it like a part of your culture. I'm from Czech Republic we have like 10milions speaker which is small in whole world.
As a Japanese… it is hard to even learn Japanese myself
Hiragana and katakana are pretty easy but kanji....
bruhhhhhhhh i hate my life since I started
日本人でも難しいよ。
Yeah we japanese can’t even write and read 100% of our own alphabets lmao
Japanese and Turkish are similar
İki-maşta (Japanese)
Git- mişti (Turkish)
as a girl with a Chinese mom , I can comfirm that Chinese isn’t hard , the parents are hard 😊
lol
I agree, I have to play 1 hour of piano and viola
My Chinese name is also very hard, my teacher said on a test, people are on the first problem and I’m still writing my name. 喻瀚熙 is my Chinese name
@@angelachelsey9984convert your name in english please😢😢😢
@@Teacher-501 the 喻 means simile, the 瀚 means vast, and the 熙 was and emperor’s name. According to my mom
هل حقاً انا اتحدث ثاني اصعب لغة في العالم بكل سهوله 🤣
كم هذا فخر❤
arabic ❤
Malayalam laughing in a corner 😂😂😂
Lol that’s what I was thinking I’m half mallu and Tamil but mainly Tamil
Why no one is adding malayalam!!!! Malayalam needs more support! Lol
Facts
malayalam is underappreciated 😭
@@looking_for_titan in my opinion Malayalam is the harder version of Tamil
Imagine Cantonese is more complex than Mandarin but got ignored
Nah it is very easy to learn. From someone from Hong Kong.
As an native English speaker, I can say that it was pretty easy to pick up on Cantonese. Not too hard in my opinion.
cantonese is chinese
Theres languages at least as complicated if not more difficult than cantonese. Its not like mandarin and cantonese are the only chinese languages
@@biwnzixebrxb4786 XD
As a chinese i think mandarin is quite hard but once you learn mandarin you have access to learn Japanese or Korean (mostly japanese due to its similar writing) i am currently learning mandarin and japanese and in my opinion the hardest goes to arabic, Tamil and Malayalam
You don't think mandarin is the hardest because you are a native Chinese, for foreigners I heard it takes up to 7 years to be fluent in mandarin
I think cantonese is hardest
@@Virxls well as a chinese persepctive. Because cantonese is also spoken in China
@@フェムエン yess
@@フェムエン my grandmother watches Chinese tv shows based on pop music, then sometimes I hear them try to sing Cantonese because they want to try it out
I can’t speak Cantonese but my mother taught me like some words or smth but then I am fluent listening to what they said lol
Meanwhile SANSKRIT ... laughing at the corner 💀
Tgey think Sanskrit n hindi r identical twins
Tell me you're a indian patriot without telling me you're a indian patriot
@@SQh7 And who do you think you are ......🤡
@@SQh7 tell me you are insulting someone without telling me you are insulting someone 😒
It's not an insult, it's a fact
Where is indian languages like Hindi ,Malayalam, tamil, sanskrit etc.. any English people can't speak malayalam properly if he studied it for so many years
He don't even know about Local Indian Languages buddy, but yeah he should mention Hindi as it is a Known Language and It is Hard AF to Learn
जानें कि क्या आप वास्तव में हिंदी भाषा सीखना बहुत आसान है जैसा कि आप देख सकते हैं
ஹிந்தியை விட தமிழ் மிகவும் எளிதானது, அதை புரிந்துகொள்வது சற்று கடினம், ஏனென்றால் முன்னும் பின்னும் இடையில் உள்ள வார்த்தையை மாற்றலாம்
Kannada
@@nxp2619 but speaking malayalam with proper way is almost not possible for people who don't know it