What's the Easiest Language to Learn?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 เม.ย. 2015
- Possibly the most commonly asked question about language learning is "What is the easiest language to learn?" I answer that question in general, and then with regard to native English speakers. The short answer: whatever language is most similar to your native language. But of course there`s more to it than that.
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In this video I discuss the easiest language to learn as well as the hardest language to learn.
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Just want to soil the first comments lol
@@euphemiaadamson8375 i dunno the bureau list it on similarities to related language, even it's related if it not closely similar (in case German to English) it's listed as close rather than grammatically simple and easier in general but totally not related (Indonesian). I dunno that bureau would list coz tonal feature.
Arabic, Bengali, Chinese are hardest languages to learn. On the otherhand
English, Hindi are easiest languages.
And Russian, Hibrew two lovely language we should admire after English. And the truth is having too many people or nations on earth but we have only a handfull of languages that we speak across the globe..!
Why do you look like quentin tarantino so much
Wow recent comments in a video thats 5 years old. Also I'm currently simultaneously learning spanish and french, so thanks for the help and I'll gladly check out the link
Native: German
Easy: English, Dutch
Very Hard: Humor
😀
You’re lucky you already speak German, your grammar is a pain in the ass to figure out.
TURKISH IS VERY HARD
If you’re a Native German speaker you have a huge advantage
This was class 👏😂
A note from a Chinese speaker: Be glad your language has an alphabet.
C2Lception Bopomofo exists...not that it helps much.
@@oliverzhang8737 no, bopomofo is used in Taiwan, Hanyu is used in mainland
@@magmagon5572 I thought they used Cantonese?
@@faizyusuf2470 wtf when did you get that idea? The Taiwanese use Mandarin (traditional form) and we also speak Taiwanese (hokkien), hakka, and some Fujian.
In addition, Cantonese is not a written language but a dialect. Hanyu is a style of pronunciation using the Latin alphabet.
Tried Kanji. I feel it.
Native: Hungarian
Easy: Nothing apart from English
Hard: Everything.
Very hard: Explaining people that I'm in fact, hot hungry.
Impossible: Explaining people that we don't understand Finnish at all.
You don't have to explain that you're hot and hungry, we already know that
Not hungry?
Native : Roman.🇮🇹
Hard: tell the world that i dont understand Romanian.🤣
As a Finn, I totally agree with the last one :D I think there's not many words anymore that are similar, I think "blood" was quite close in Finnish and Hungarian, "veri" in Finnish.
@@markusketonen2412 od you agree with the flag of your country's air force?
Native: Slovak/English
Easy: Slavic languages
Very hard: Japanese, Chinese
Impossible: Not being mistaken for Slovenia
Ahh you must be from Czechoslovenia
I feel like it would be the other way around. Way more people know of Slovakia versus Slovenia.
Those pesky Slovenians!
The special name Karin and the words or and ova cannot be in someone’s name, and all unsuitable names must be changed!
My list of languages that I highly recommend, starting with the prettiest and then the easiest...
...Dutch & Norwegian (they are really perfect languages, like English / Scottish, with almost only pretty words and beautiful sounds, and should be learned with the soft G and the soft / Americanized R, and are very poetic and refined, so they are a must-know, just like English / Scottish)
...Swedish (it’s almost as pretty as Norwegian, but it’s easier to read Swedish words after learning more than 3k Norwegian words, so that’s why one should start with Norwegian, as most Norwegian words are very easy to read and memorize)
...Portuguese / Galician / Catalan / French / Occitan / Esperanto (most words are very pretty words, a bit more prettier than many Spanish words, even though Spanish is way easier to learn, and one should definitely choose a more open / non-nasal pronunciation / soft R tho, because a soft accent with open vowels can make these languages sound so good and pretty)
...Frisian / Afrikaans / Luxembourgish / German / Limburgish (very pretty words in all these languages, even though a lot may find German grammar more complicated, and by the way, one should use a soft R and soft G, which will make them sound so pretty)
...Spanish / Italian / Corsican (lots of pretty words and many neutral words, and Spanish is definitely the easiest Latin language to learn, which makes it a great option to start with, and Italian is as easy as Spanish honestly, from what I’ve noticed, and I highly recommend a soft R in these languages and all other languages, which will make them sound very pretty)
...Icelandic / Danish / Faroese (very pretty words, but it’s easier to learn these languages once one knows Norwegian and Swedish, because they are not as easy to read as the other two Nordic languages, and the pronunciation can be more complicated in Danish, for example, which has many words and rules that are similar to the Norwegian word and others that are more similar to the Swedish word, so that’s why they should be learned after learning a lot of words in Norwegian and Swedish, and, Icelandic is a bit easier to read than Faroese)
...OId Norse / Latin / OId English / Norn / MiddIe English etc (I highly recommend learning at least one of these languages, even though they aren’t used a lot nowadays, and all other Germanic languages that I didn’t list here, but I have them on my list tho, and they are interesting, and can be used in poetry / lyrics because they are very poetic sounding, so I am going to learn them all, plus I already know a lot of words in Middle English, which I use in many of my lyrics, and I can understand it because it’s mostly the spelling that is a bit different from Modern English, but OId English is completely different tho, so it’s more similar to German)
...Welsh / Scots Gaelic / Irish / the other Celtic languages (I recently found lyrics and read words in these languages, and they seem very interesting, have so many pretty words, from what I read, even though they have almost no similar words to the words in Germanic languages and Latin languages, so they are completely different, and kinda have an elf-like sound to them, so they are perfect for me, but I also recommend them to all because they sound very poetic, and can probably be learned in a few years, I don’t know, but I seem to be able to remember the words I learned so far, so they don’t seem difficult to memorize, but they are definitely more difficult to spell than to memorize tho)
...Hungarian (I know two songs in Hungarian that I learned years ago, so it doesn’t seem that difficult to memorize, and many words are so pretty, so I would definitely recommend this language, which is very different)
...Finnish / Estonian (these two languages have a lot of pretty words and a lot of neutral words, even though other words aren’t pretty and are opposites, but I would recommend at least the pretty words and the neutral words, which I am also learning)
And, I also recommend learning the pretty words from Indonesian & Filipino & Sundanese, because these three languages have a mix of very pretty words, as well as lots of neutral words, but then they also have a lot of funny words that are not pretty (so a lot of opposites too) but, I am definitely learning all the pretty words that I find, which can be used mixed with other languages and in poetry / lyrics!
Native: Italian
Easy: Spanish, French, Portuguese
Hard: Telling people I don't say, "MAMMA MIA!" Every 5 seconds
Squadra zurra or something like that lol
*IT'S A ME MARIO*
BADADABOOPI!!!👉☝🖐👍👐👏
That's what's up. Latin is one of the kind of ethnicities with beautiful languages.
Lol xD
Native: Python
Easy: JavaScript, HTML
Hard: Telling people no, I can’t fix your printer
this is painfully true.
javascript is easy? you only grasp the basic thing and you call it easy
@@jahndoe679 it’s a joke
underrated
Gets a computer science degree.
Works running cat5 and crimping RJ45s.
Any language from an old civilisation is not “easy”. I am able as an English speaker to speak to taxi drivers in French and German and in the past Spanish and Turkish. There is no way I could have a philosophical conversation or read their literature. At 75 yrs old and super duper educated I am still learning English.
who invented english? cmon please think
@@bishplis7226me
@@JohnPaulHatterTheSecond can you make a mod for it so i can communicate with other languages too
@@JohnPaulHatterTheSecondI will find you
Native language: Arabic
Very hard: Arabic
XD that's rough
Same with me , I can read and write english and French pretty easily but I have trouble reading my native language bengali. Too many language markers so the spellings make no sense at times.
Drive Home Honestly lol it’s just that formal Arabic and its grammar rules are hard and very very strict. Without practice they’re easy to forget. Normal people can do it but they make many mistakes (especially cuz Arabic dialects are quite different from formal). Hell I probably write better formal English than Arabic.
@@JAYZ999 that would probably be the same case for me. Some of the Americans/british people have no regard for their own grammar. Most people don't even know whether to use "there" or "they're" in correct places. That's like basic grammar rules :3
Drive Home Yh and unlike English, formal Arabic grammar rules almost NEVER change with time (still the same as around 1000 years ago). So while what we speak has changed a lot overtime (although not at all as much as other languages because the Quran’s existence restricts too much change in the language), writing hasn’t and that’s where the problem lies.
Native: Arabic
Easy: English, Dutch
Hard: telling people we don’t ride camels to school.
Omar AB exactly.
Anjayy haha
But would be awesome , anyway I'm Brazil and here isn't only soccer and Samba , I really understand you guys hahahaha
Yeah we do bro why you misleading. I have the new full option 2x2 hump.
j a 2x2 hump only? Man I’ve got the 6x6 hump V12 camel, has 6 legs and goes 0-100kmph in under 3 seconds
Native language: English
Easy to learn: Spanish, German
Hard to learn: Every language without the Latin alphabet
Not true at all, Tsakonian is a language spoken in Greece which uses the Greek alphabet and it's easier than English
😂😂😂
honestly learning a different alphabet isn’t that hard, it’s easier than it sounds anyway
i learned hiragana and katakana easily within a month or so
@@fanaticofmetalso it's easier for english natives than english?...
Hi I love watching your video.
I’m Japanese, when I learned English it was extremely hard of course the English grammer was crazy for me
BUT the culture!!
Sometimes I feel like in order to well understand the phrase we need to understand the thoughts of speakers behind the phrase and this was so hard for me.
Interesting! I teach adult Japanese students online, so it’s always so helpful to hear a learner’s perspective. Your English seems great!
English sounds like hell to learn if you don't already speak a language that shares a lot of words with it. The spelling is also crazy, you've got these words: rough, though and thought; all of which have drastically different pronunciations
I'm brazilian and I'm currently learning Japanese. I loved the japanese at first sight, the sounds are very easy and fun to learn from a portuguese speaker, but the japanese grammar is really hard hahaha. I love the way japanese think to make phrases. Cheers from your friends in Brazil 🇧🇷❤️🇯🇵
Actually Japanese grammar is crazy too...
I am from New Zealand. The English culture is complicated for us also.
乾杯
Native: arabic (egyptian)
Easy: English, German, Danish
Hard: telling people that I can't read old egyptian and that I didnt live in the pyramids
Hahaha lmfao... as Mexican I could say
Hard: telling people that we don't go to school on donkeys and we don't live in smalltowns
lmao
Pharoah want to know your location
Tell Cleopatra hi from me 😂😂
Yo.. are you me or what? For me its
Native: Arabic (iraqi)
Easy: English,German, Danish (i live in denmark!) :)))))
Native: Thai
Easy: English
Hard: telling people we don’t ride elephants to school.
I get the same thing with foreign students that come to Texas. They're like you do not ride horses and wear a cowboy hat to school?
Sorry but this comment is silly Yok.
English is not the easiest language for Thai people to learn.
The closely related languages to thai are other thai-gradai languages such as Lao, Isaan, Puu thai, zhuang, shan and many others. Then you have other distant languages but may be slightly more related or still easier than learning european languages, like cambodian, khmer, vietnamese, malay, even chinese
Same Thailand and South Africa
@@SoundAsleepSpace for HER , English is the easiest. I agree,cus' I'm Thai.
lmao ikr
Native: English (from England)
Easy: Spanish, German, Dutch
Hard: Japanese, Chinese
Impossible: Trying to tell people that I haven’t had tea with the Queen.
ARE YOU SURE SPANISH IS THAT EASY? Spanish have 17 verb tenses
@@justajona yes it is for me (I have been learning it for 3 years)
@@WeAreNotExperts2007 Pues, felicidades
u think german is easy 😭😭😭
@@bigb0yiceyes
The easiest language is the one which interests you and which you are able to actively put a lot of time and practice into. I have always found German hard because of lack of motivation and practice, but actually found Arabic easier because I find it easier to practice and motivate myself.
Na dann viel Glück damit
I am very interested in many languages, but back in day in school I, a native English, flunked French and passed German. I have since learned some other languages, but other than picking out words and a few phrases I recognize, my brain just won't comput French. I blame genetics, I had both ancestries, but modern DNA shows just so much more German in me. The fact that I look like a Hessian peasant should have tipped me off.
@@LordGertzI don't think that ancestry has anything to do with it. I live in Poland and I cannot physically comprehend German (my family always knew it well) and I do quite well in French. It just depends on your predispositions
NO. There are languages who interest me and which I find very easy (French, Italian) and others that interest me EVEN MORE and they are VERY difficult (Chinese, Russian). Your simplistic pablum is easy to say but this Video was FAR MORE SERIOUS than your comment.
@@anastassiosperakis2869 Р.И.П.
Native: Spanish
Easy: Portuguese, Italian, English
Hard: Telling people that we don't speak Mexican
I am Hispanic, and I can speak Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Colombian, Mexican....😅
@@amramjose ...and Chilean?
You don't speak Mexican? Weak
@@arandompig3997 I'm able to speak Mexican as well, but it's a secret of mine 😉
Lmao triste
My native language is from a Slavic group, but I think it's an illusion that other Slavic languages are easy when you know one - yes, there're lots of similarities in grammar, but when it comes to vocabulary, there are so many "false friends" and tiny nuances you intuitively get wrong, that for me it's way easier to start with something completely different.
I wanted to write that English is easy because at least objects are not gendered (seriously, this is the most annoying and useless language feature ever!), but then I recalled how much trouble I had as a kid with all the things that don't sound the way they're spelled... ghoti = fish and all that.
Persian is surprisingly easy to learn and it's very beautiful. I didn't expect it to have so much in common with my native language and Germanic languages! One of my favorite words is "setareh", which means "star". And it has no gender category at all, yaaaay!
Vocabulary is the easiest part in the Slavic languages. The grammar is nasty.
@@ivanpetrov5185 true. And because of this, learning language with almost same grammar is much easy, i understood it when started to learn polish, knowing russian.
Being native in Greek, having mastered English and German as a child, found the easiest ones to be Italian and Esperanto and the most difficult ones...Icelandic and Finnish. Being in contact with Russian from an early age I found it bearable.
Σαν Ολλανδος, μετα απο δεκαετεια εδω στην Ελλαδα, ακομα το δυσκολευω με την γλωσσα. χαχα
Why the hell would anyone speak Esperanto
Also Born in Greece of Greek parents, Greek was my first language, ENglish the second (started at 9) and by now I know it even better than Greek, then I decided to try German at 15, had 5 years of slow courses (2-3 hours a week 6-7 months a year), then I was offered a free intensive course in French at 21, 40 days, 5 hours a day, we covered 3 years of lessons), then I studied other languages on my own (Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, etc etc, all at an elementary level). I thought Japanese was much easier than CHinese or even Russian.
@@The_BalloYou do not know? Esperanto is the easiest language in the world because it was made to be a language of world communication. That's why people learn.
@@walasoaleatorio8237 It's a language twins teach one another except at least that language has a use as it's secret. Esperanto is the world's most useless language. Typical byproduct of socialist thinking.
native: russian
easy: any slavic language
hard: explain to foreigners that we are not alcoholics
Taka prawda
Are you sure about that?
I'm not convinced.
But we are
Don't try and convince us otherwise
Native: English
Easy: English
Hard: Literally any other language
Fax
It's facts
I just witnessed your 184th like. And now 185th due to me liking it also
@@moniqueparker5384 I'm talking about the machine
learn german or another germanic language
Native: romanian
Spoken fluently: german and english
Easy to understand: french, other germanic languages, other romance languages
Hard: farsi, indo-european languages outside of Europe
Very hard: arabic (although I'm half arab), slavic languages, fino-ugric languages
Are you lebanese?
@@ali_haidar_313 No:)!
why are there so many half romanian half arab people? ^^
Native : French
Extremely Easy : Toki Pona
Very Easy : Esperanto
Easy : Spanish, Italian, portuguese, English
Normal : Greek
Hard : German
Very hard : Japanese, Arabic, Chinese
Extremely hard : Sibo Gomero, ǃXóõ
Impossible : Every single person I met in my life
Esperant' estas la solan lingvon mi aktuale konas mdr
i know toki pona yay
@@monophone903 vi parolas esperanton! mojosa ! ne estas facile trovi esperantistojn kun kiuj paroli
@@megadethfan18 sina toki ala toki e toki pona?
Greek is normal?
Native: Korean
Easy: Japanese, Chinese
Hard: Every other languages
I was really looking for an Asian comment lol 😂
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
중국어 어렵던데..
한자 외우는거 너무 싫어서 전 차라리 다른 라틴계 언어가 더 편하더라구요.
일본어는 진짜 쉽습니다 ㅋㅋ
Why is Japanese and Chinese easy? Aren't the Japanese, Korean and Chinese languages completely unrelated to each other?
@@byali4360 They are not really related but they are in same Chinese character sphere. Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese can communicate even if they don't know each other's language through Chinese characters.
Native:English
Easy: English
Hard: Learning foreign languages
Oop
OMG!U R the only legend I could c in the whole section.
So hard working yay!
Poor soul *Laughs in trilingual*
lol
Joel where are you from?
Native: Hindi
Easy: English, Urdu
Hard: Explaining "Indian" is not a language.
Hindi and Urdu are counted as dialects of the same language when statistics are collected.
@@sheshystar9380 yupp.. They have like 90% similarity, I guess.. 🤔
Hindi = Hindustani with Sanskrit influence
Urdu = Hindustani with Farsi/Persian and Arabic influence
Whats about Tamil?
Friends, All Indians don't understand English very well, forget about speaking it. You play an English song and they wouldn't get a single line of lyrics, they can't understand a movie without subtitles or dubbing. So what this comment means here by "easy" is their level of understanding which is very crude.
I started French at age 13 (you have more capacity to learn when young). It seemed easy. I’ve dabbled in a few others. It took me 6 months to learn how to read Tibetan. I’ve forgotten most of my 3 years of it. Greek not so hard. Irish hard because I started in my 50s. The ones with all the unusual diacritical marks, like Romanian and Navajo, seem really hard. My Italian friend gave up on us because she hated how we said “aglio”! I know lots of polyglots, though I’m not one. A Ukrainian guy in my first Irish class was fluent in 6 weeks! My Bretonne/French friend had to speak a different language on 5 phone lines at a Paris hotel!
η καταγωγή σου από πού είναι; Πόσο καιρό χρειάστηκες για να μάθεις καλά Ελληνικά ;
I believe actually it's only in like your 40-50's where learning gets hard.
Maybe a bit optimistic but as an 18 year old learning dutch (as a dane) it's very easy to grasp and learn. Although your brain apparently only fully matures around 26 years old
Native: English (Canadian)
Easy: English (American)
Hard: English (British)
Very Hard: Old English, Middle English
Impossible: Languages that aren't English
What about Scottish, Australian or South African English?....
Hahaha
+I almost forgot the Hindi English and the most complex, Engrish...
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bruh… you’re Canadian, why don’t you speak French?
Hahahaha
Native: Japanese
Hard: any foreign languages
Easy: watch anime without subtitles
Lucky you
How lucky u are 🙃
Such powers I wish I had
Lucky! I wish...
You so lucky
Native: German
Easy: English, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic
Hard: History
Okay, so first, Romans call you guys barbarians, then some Germans (Franks) made the Frankish Kingdom which is what you call France today...
Wait a second...
Tjena, hur mår du?
why not finnish?
@@sugarx6687 because finnish is not germanic
@@tim9062 and what kind of langauge is it? slavish?
This video was uploaded 7 years ago and your videos were already this good and professional keep it up love your videos!
Fortunately, my native languages are both English and Mandarin Chinese. When I look at the FSI chart, I tend to look at it from both ends LOL. Category 1 and Category 5 languages (excluding Arabic) are supposed to be the easiest for me to learn, which ended up being quite true. Japanese was like a giveaway cos I could read most characters even without knowing their pronunciations in Japanese (speaking is a different thing though, and the infinite amount of grammar endings at the more advanced levels drive me crazy). Korean was also fairly easy to pick up, given that almost all high-level words have Sino origins. Malay (close sibling of Indonesian) was, as you said, fairly easy to pick up, due to the easy grammar, though I'm still working on listening cos the version of language spoken in real life is very different from what's written in the books. I feel it should be in category 1 though, cos it's culturally different from English, it has a lot of shared words with English due to the fact that Malaysian and Singapore were both former British colonies. Studying french now but progress has been slow so far, so I'm glad you said it's not been that difficult to pick up for you.
Native: Persian
Easy: English
Hard: telling people our carpets don't fly
cAn YoU tElL mE wHeRe cAn I gEt thE fAstEst fLyIng CaRpEt???
@@mavromarana rIgHt tHiS wAy sIr.
😂
Or explaining whirling dervishes
@@joshuametzl1420 tHanK YoU
Native: American
Easy: English
Hard: What do you mean with "There are other countries in the world"?
I think he means the countries Europe and Africa.
My Namo . No mate, you go woosh😀
yeah... countries are missing here from the start, I see
This has to be one of the best comments
Matey Petrov wooooosh
Native: Belarusian, Russian
Easy: Ukrainian (Can understand without learning), Spanish (Very easy grammar + Pronounciation), maybe Polish (because of some sounds like PRZ, Ą, Ę, ŚĆ, also hard to read with that rules, so like medium) and other Slavic languages
Extreme: Armenian (Alphabet), Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Xhosa (Just hear that alphabet)
Impossible: Explain to Russians that we are not Bielorussia/Biełaruśia (Белоруссия/Беларусія), we are BELARUS/BIEŁARUŚ! (Беларусь)
Живе Біла Русь🇵🇱🇺🇦
В России Белоруссия и Беларусь тождествены и общеупотребимы. Конечно я привык употреблять слово Беларусь, но по-моему это очень странный и предвзятый доеб.
По-белорусски может и так. В русском языке единственное правильное написание - Белоруссия. Соеденительной гласной "а" в сложных словах (с двумя корнями) не может быть, товарищь лесаруб с беларуссии.
@@nicka33 Ну официальное название-то Республика Беларусь
@@user-or2gh3bq1i ну называй тогда Корею Хангуг, Японию Нихон, Китай Джунгуо, да? Киргизстан Кыргызстаном. США это вообще-то Юнайтыд Стэйс оф Омерика.
That was awesome. I was curios what you were going to say & you didn't disappoint me!
Native: Hindi
Easy: English, Nepalese
Very Hard: Convincing people that there is no language called "Indian".
acha...
huh, the more you know
Lmao true
?
Indian have many languages, right?
Native: Polish
Easy: Russian and Czech
Hard: Existing on map during any conflict in Europe
Please don't forget the easiest for us: Slovak
@@tajniakpospolity350 no tak
@@tajniakpospolity350 you clearly missed the main point xd
@@livitiana5463 How come?:) Please enlighten me then.:)
You missed the joke.. Poland never seems to last long in European wars
A long time ago, I was a university French major with my second language as Russian. After many years of French in high school & then in college, I found Russian very easy to learn. Once one has memorized the Cyrillic alphabet, I can still read Russian to a certain extent.
Interestingly, being fluent in English and Dutch, I found Spanish pronunciation really easy to learn because all the sounds (except one) exist in one or both of those two languages. For example, an English-only speaker will find the Spanish j difficult, but a Dutch speaker won't. Conversely, a Dutch-only speaker (do they still exist?) might struggle with the c and z in cerveza that the English speaker has no problem with. The only sound not found in either language is the Spanish r, which is made by the tongue behind the top teeth. The Dutch roll their r's in the throat, and the English don't roll them at all.
Being an Spanish native speaker, I can endorse what you stated. Dutch speakers are good in pronouncing Spanish in a soft-natural way. English speakers are also good with pronunciation, but tend to overenunciate some consonants. Besides letter 'R', I would also add the letters 'L' and 'T', we could easily identify non-native Spanish speakers by the way they pronounce these latter ones.
PS: the correct writing is "cerveza", with a 'V'. It does not change the pronunciation but that's the correct syntaxing 🤪
@@mitchelbravo4702 Sorry! 😁 I knew it was cerveza but the speech centre in my brain hijacked the typing centre!
Actually, the proper r in dutch is a trill at the teeth. The throat "french" r is often used, but for a long time wasn't considered ABN (general sophisticated dutch), but recently has been accepted, but the trill r is used more
At least AmEnglish speakers don't or shouldn't find the Spanish j difficult because of our stol...er borrowed words or commonly used Spanish words like jalapeno, and jefe and names like juanita and joaquin.
@@IkkezzUsedEmber I'll put it down to regional variations.
Native : French
easy : English
hard : French
Lol I am french
Literally same!
The same with portuguese, what a complicated language. Foreign english is much easier than my native language, portuguese (brazilian).
Cyriod, i have a bad news: you have the "Aya Nakamura syndrom", no cure has been found, sorry for you poto
@@MrRemo1313 Mais nan c'pa vré ?! jvé mourir alor merd
Native:Hungarian
Easy:English
Hard:telling people that we are not hungry
Lol
Hungarian ah I see and respect you because it looks impossible to learn😂
Stop lying, you guys are hungry, you're hungarians after all.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hungry 😂
I have always enjoyed your videos. Maybe its just a niche, but its my niche, and the work you do producing and recording these topics is meaningful to me. Thank you :)
Native: English
2nd: German (studied in college), B2 level
3rd: Russian, A2 level
Definitely having extensive, classroom-based instruction in German makes learning Russian easier. The only new concepts were Cyrillic and case endings for nouns, rather than articles.
How hard was it to learn German
@@jonathanbroussard8027 I didn't find it difficult. The standard four semesters in college was not adequate, I had to do a lot of outside exposure to the language.
@@melaniebrinson2365 ok thank you
German: Der, Die, Das, wieso, weshalb, warum
English: the the the why why why
It seems in Portuguese, but we have 4 whys hahaha
Persian: blank blank blank
Nice
@natalie storm no, it is just a very accurate language. if you dont get the differences, it is because you are not good at it.
@@amandaribeiro5145 por que ,por quê, porque, porquê Brasil por que ?
Super interesting video. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing. Love your content
The easiest language is 'Italian'
Just move your body, hands, make some expressions with your face and sometimes say: aaaeeehh !!!
David Bandini Sorry To Disappoint But Isn't Italian= Spanish Is
your last name looks italian and you are poking fun at italian language...takes courage !
Italians just have to shut up.
luca nina sssshhhhtt !!!
vabbé l'autoironia ma l'italiano a livello base è un conto, ma la grammatica avanzata con tutte le sue eccezioni neanche gli italiani spesso la sanno.
Edit:Ok I felt bad for people who dont know what I wrote here so I'm writing it again.
Native: Mandarin and Cantonese
Easy: Japanese.
Hard: Chinese characters.
Impossible: trying to explain to people we dont say "chin chong" when we speak.
That Cracked me up
You do if you do
Seems like your talking to some pretty idiotic people when they don't understand that a racist slur is not used in chinese
@@chairman3427 we don't if we don't
@@cueiyo6906 yes
Native: English (from england)
Easy: Spanish, Italian (romantic)
Hard: Arabic, Turkish
Very hard: Japenese, mandarin (Chinese), cantonese
Impossible: trying to explain to foreigners that we don't have a cup of tea with every meal
By far the easiest language I learned was Esperanto, which is an "artificial" language with a simple grammar and vocabulary drawn largely from European languages. Among national languages, I studied French and German, and later Spanish. The grammar and cases in German were impenetrable, though the vocabulary has a lot of similarity to English. Even though I've been exposed to French the longest, I found Spanish considerably easier.
That artificial language claimed that it’s gonna the new WORLDWIDE medium because it’s “easiest” and “make sense”, and I understand that but it’s MAINLY from European language. Which absolutely honest speaking from someone from lot different culture, “I’m offended”. Like how can you make such a claim, it’s so self-centered view.
@@silvermeasuringspoons6462 forget the fact that it's mostly made from euro languages. The issue is that it has no ethic, cultural, and religious ties. No history, no people to call it their mother tongue. It is a soulless, synthetic language lacking any human roots. Lol, even Quenya from LOTR had more substance
I am from Surabaya Indonesia. I am happy that you mention our language, Bahasa Indonesia. Our language is very simple indeed. It is also easy to listen to Bahasa Indonesia for our words are longer. Chinese is actually very simple actually without writing. I agree with you that Japanese is very difficult, probably the most difficult one I have learned. By the way, I know English, German, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese.
@@supersabrosinho there’s about 10,000-ish people maybe more that natively speak Esperanto
@@supersabrosinho i mean it's a nice languague to learn other languages. Having a world language is nice and it should't be english. Better be esperanto
Native: Brazilian Portuguese
Easy: English, Spanish, French
Hard: Telling people we don't live in the jungle and have carnival parties 24/7
Italian is easy too, all romance languages
Romani
Yes, but in "favelas" they really do this 24/7.
Ok, so here is that kind of comment section filled up with brazucas speaking in english... Nice
And telling people Portuguese and Spanish are different languages and we speak Portuguese
Native: Russian
Easy: English
Hard: To explain people that i'm not drinking vodka and have'nt a bear as a pet
Lmao
What is your bear's name?
@@stoptryingtomakeithappen9099 vodka
@@stoptryingtomakeithappen9099 his name is Cyka
To be honest, you didn’t mention that you don’t have missiles and heavy weaponry in your house
as Tunisian I speak Arabic and the Tunisian accent, French, English, and German fluently. I understand also the Arabic accents of north Africa and middle East. I can understand somehow Maltese because they have a mix of Tunisian and Italian words which are similar to French. I tried lately to learn Japanese but didn't make much of a progress and already had huge difficulties to remember the letters ( I only tried to learn the Hiragana though)
Native: Icelandic
Easy: North-germanic languages (Faroese is the easiest by far), English, Dutch
Medium: Italian, spanish, german, french
Intermediate: Japanese, Slavic languages, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew
Hard: Telling people that pop culture grossly misinterprets viking lore
Nynorsk should be a breeze for you
i am a greek who is strugling with icelandic :)
Native: Chinese
Easy: Speaking Chinese
Hard: Writing Chinese
😐
😂
Lmao
@Ege Çoban It is true for basic symbols, yes
But of course this doesn't apply to all of them because not everything can be drawn so easily
Horse: 馬
Water: 水 or 氵which represents wazerdrops
@Ege Çoban th-cam.com/video/tK5Of-_FN5s/w-d-xo.html
This video explains it quite well
Native: Dutch
Easy: English
Hotel: Trivago
haha onnozele :D
Haha dude that's so funny and original
You got me 😂😂
😂😂😂😂
Hoi meden nederlander
Mother tongue: German
Studied in school and loved it: Latin (has a very straightforward grammar)
Easy: Slavic languages (grammar in some sense very similar to Latin, cases used in a very similar way, quite regular; only really new is the vocabulary for the first Slavic language; spelling and pronunciation not such a mess like in English or French)
Big thanks! Very helpful.
Native: C
Easy: C++
Hard: finding a girlfriend
Nebojsa Can relate.
C++ easy?It's the most difficult program language i've learned.
Hahahahaha
李贺 the point of the comment is that it’s easy if you know c
which is true
哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈xswl
Native: The language of youtube comments
Easy: Stealing comments written by others
Hard: Coming up with a funny one
lol
@@Langfocus You replied on a 6 year old video. That’s legendary and made me subscribe
Damn you are smart.
@@Langfocus still looking at commemts
@@ludwigvanbeethoven5483 yep
Appreciate your vids man
As a Dane in the 1970s I learned English and German in elementary school, but then in High School you had to choose a third foreign language. I had heard that French was tough in grammar so I chose Russian - that was a mistake! OK, I got decent in Russian, enough to once being taken for a Russian by some Poles in Krakow, that situation almost became dangerous until I pointed to a small Danish flag sown onto my coat and they joyfully said. "Ah Switzerland!" - and took us on a tour to some splendid Jazz clubs :-) The worst part is however that I have used my Russian very little since (too risky ;-) )and now have forgotten most. French or Spanish would have been much more useful - and I wouldn't have risked being knocked down in Krakow :-)
Native: Sign Language
Easy: GangSigns
Hard: Dodging bullets
Shit respond if you're still alive
@@streamerandamemer1356 still alive
@@jackrowe5571 good
@@streamerandamemer1356 so who you?
What
Native: Deaf And Mute
Easy: Sign Language
Hard: Lip Reading
Impossible: Explaining people that we can also enjoy music.
how? do you feel the vibration like the man on Baby Driver?
Wow! I think that’s awesome. I never considered that! But how? 🤔
How?please i need answer
i don't imagine feeling vibrations is very enjoyable.
i would have allot of questions too.
@@downey2294 lmao about 50% of the population can get some pleasure from vibrations.
I can see a pattern in the comments:
Native: *insert country here*
Easy: *some languages*
Hard: Chinese, Japanese
Impossible: *trying to discredit any random stereotype about their country*
Easy : Indonesian
Having approached to several languages and having spanish and portuguese as my first and second language respectively I have found Malay (both malaysian and indonesian) as one of the easiest languages to learn, it is also very logic and quite precise to express ideas without using many words, The most difficult I have personally tried is arabic, still one I have found more challenging to learn : )
Native: Korean
Easy: Talk with North Koreans
Jail: Travel to North Korea
lmaoooo
lol
Native Korean??!!!! 😳
@@jenetaro6366 I have a Korean friend is that shocking or not
@@_McCormickProductions waw
Native: South Korean
Easy: North Korean
Hard: to visit Pyeongyang , 🇰🇵
are south Korean and north Korean different languages?
@@bestjerk almost same but sometimes pronunciation is a bit different and use a different word sometimes like American English and Australian English.
@@uphold2680 I got it, thx
너 참웃긴닼ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
@@bestjerk The culture gap, and the Norths close relation with China
Native: Turkish
Easy: Turkmen, Azerbaijani, English
Normal: German, Russian, Dutch, French, Spanish
Hard: Greek, Georgian, Portuguese, Indonesian
Very Hard: Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Chinese
Impossible: Deciding if im european or asian
Bu yaxşıydı.
You’re Asian.
I was surprised that you said Korean and Japanese are very hard, because most of the Turkish people(whom I saw in the TH-cam comment) said Korean and Japanese are easy for them.
very interesting, thank you!
Native: English
Easy: Portuguese
Hard: to find a comment that doesn't start with "Native:"
Scroll to the top & u'll find.
English -
Me: Why do you think Portuguese is easy?
You: The reason for this is simple, it's because I can understand it very well. Do you think it's difficult, why?
Portuguese and it's four whys -
Eu: Por que você acha que português é fácil? Eu quero saber o porquê.
Você: É porquê eu posso entende-lo muito bem. Você acha que é difícil por quê?
(Por que =Beginning of a question;
Porquê = Noun preceded by an article;
Porque = Because;
Por quê = Used at the end of a question.)
Wait a "minutinho" my friend, I will assume the scenario which you don't have relatives that speak the language, You're telling me you look to portuguese and thought: izi babe...
I'm brazilian, I live with brazilians, I love and study portuguese (my mother is graduated, even so), and I never heard such a quote like portuguese is easy.
Entende o quê eu falo?
Meu Deus :0 Ele disse que português é fácil :0 você me entende? Uaaauuu
Native: Portuguese
.
Easy: Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian.
Hard: Convincing people that we don't speak Spanish in Brazil.
E acham que falamos espanhol
And english as well
Why do u said native Portuguese and then at the end u said convense people that brazilians dont speak spanish then that make u a brazilian or u shall say im Brazilian who or we speak Portuguese dont know just saying
@@mochyla Come on, why don't you use a single comma? I couldn't understand what you said at all.
@@MatheusHenrique-li7cv hahaha yeah, I didn't understand it too, but clearly he wasn't able to see how the meme works.
Esperanto, by far, but another factor is which languages are offered for language credit. Many people learned it from Don Harlow’s ten email Esperanto course 25 years ago. There are many ways to learn Esperanto these days. Some people learn it in a couple of weeks or during the course of a single full immersion course. Indonesian was also easy. If you’ve learned those, and then Spanish, I find at least beginner Russian to have some welcome simplicity.
I have heard that, in certain instances, learning more than one language can be a progressive set of steps from one language to the next. For instance, if your native language is Portuguese, the easiest next step is Spanish, than Italian, and then French. Meaning, if those early steps are taken, the final one is substantially easier, than if one jumped straight to French.
Native: Russian
Easy: Ukrainian
Hard: telling people that Ukrainian and Russian isn't the same thing
MOTHER RUSSIA
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@@VijayThakurMD 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
@@t.w0994 Ukraine is ♥️
It's not the same thing but you can understand each other
Native: Spanish
Easy: Italian, Latin, Portuguese
Hard: Telling people Spain is not Mexico
But mexico WAS spain UwU sad
¡Arriba España!
Yeah mate: "so you're Italian? Buenos dias" and it happens all the time!
Saludos desde Italia!
@@mailman5043 Was a part of Spain, but not anymore. And the culture could not be anymore different. Calling Mexico and Spain the same would be to call USA and England the same.
@@forrest1216 ¡Saludos desde España!
Native : French
Easy : English, Spanish, Italian
Hard : Germanic languages (especially german) and slavic languages
Very hard : Arabic, any language from far east and Asia presumably (except Hindi maybe since it's an indo-european language)
Indo european but the indo iranian(hindi, pashto, tajik, farsi) branch is very different from the rest. Arabic would probably still be harder though
@@mpforeverunlimited you might be right but I was comparing it with languages from ther families, so I still think this argument is relevant enough
It's joke english : easy
Hard Germanic language
English is germanic language 😂
@@stephanedumas8329 indeed, I should have said "other" germanic languages.
Meanwhile, 2/3 of English words are Latin :X
@@lesbloches1142 Je suis français, j'ai étudié anglais et allemand, l'anglais est plus similaire à l'allemand et au néerlandais dans la vie de tout les jours l'anglais prononce plus de mots germanique que latin
The easiest foreign language I ever learned is Indonesian. The grammar is the simplest I ever encountered, and it helps that there are a lot of similar words with my native language Filipino.
Ironically, despite mandarin being the hardest language, its grammar is so easy its like a 5 year old speaking.
@@_Vezz tone is only the hindrance
You'll be surprise that many words in Sundanese (an ethnic in Java island) language are very similar to Tagalog
@@_Vezz mandarin is very similar to indonesian in terms of grammar. As long as you memorize the verbs(and tones in case of mandarin) you'll be able to communicate
Native: Greek
Easy: English
Impossible: Euros
😂😂😂😂
*Gyros
Possible: Athenians teaming up with Spartans to fight Persians.
Try watching Euro cup . You will learn the language soon .🤷♀️
Native: Dutch
Easy: German, English
Hard: Telling people I don’t smoke weed
Just tell them about your bicycle instead
Je bent niet grappig
onzin iedereen rookt jonko
Jy kan Afrikaans by die maklike lys bysit, dit was ontwikkel deur die Nederlandse kolonie in Suid Afrika. Net ‘n ewekansige feit.
English translation: You can add Afrikaans to the easy list, as it was developed by Dutch colonies in South Africa. Just a random fact.
@@christinevanzyl3106 we kunnen u begrijpen, we hebben geen vertaling nodig :P
Excellent presentation.
Native: Swiss-German/German and Vietnamese (mother tongue)
Easy: English, Dutch
Normal: French, Spanish, or Germanic languages in general, at least when it comes down to comprehension when reading WITHOUT having studied them
Hard: Japanese, Tamil, Hindi
I cannot wrap my head around how Japanese works but I also haven't invested enough time to sit down and understand its structure in its entirety.
Native: Slovak / Czech
Easy: English, Slavic languages
Hard: French, German
Very Hard: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic
Impossible: explain to foreigners that Czechoslovakia hasn't been a country for 30 years
edit: WHY THE FUCK DO I HAVE 1900 LIKES, what why
man you really make me laugh
What is Czechoslovakia
@@zenithchan1646 Union that disolved like the USSR or Yugoslavia.
@@HeroManNick132 Czech my nuts
@@zenithchan1646 a country that got invaded by mr mustasche man
Native: Indonesian
Easy: English and Spanish
Hard: Telling people that Indonesia has more than 17000 islands, not only Bali.
Ahahha exactly
Explain how our indonesian languange grades is still below C's
bhahahahha
Indonesian is easy for me
Just chillin here telling you guys Indonesia has committed 4 genocides since 1965 and is currently brutally colonising West Papua
What's amazing was Japanese was the easiest for me as an English speaker because it was so alien that being forced to learn all new language concepts made it completely novel to me.
Very interesting. Thx
Native: Hindi
Hard : Chinese, Japanese
Easy : Java script
really? html5, css easiest but jquery is hard for me hmm
@KvAT haha you don't know the meaning
@KvAT really
woah i cant understand Java and Thailand at the same time :D
"Java Script"
That joke xD
Native: Portuguese
Easy: Spanish, Italian, etc...
Hard: Finding a comment that doesn't think English is easy.
@@red_echo_panda it's not, the only hard factor in english is the nonsensical grammar rules
Italian isnt. Switch for spanish lol
You forgot French, it's a little bit like Portuguese.
@@acjazz01 As a portuguese speaker (brazilian) myself, I can't understand a quarter of what is spoken in french. It's pretty different. I think it's because of their accent.
@Gororoba eles não sabem?
Always like these talks. Interesting
I'm a 60-year old American who is trying to learn a language for the first time. I'm fascinated with the Russian language. I watched a video that said if you can pronounce all 33 letters in the Russian alphabet you can read Russian. I thought to myself, "really"... that seems too easy. I always thought I didn't have the brain to learn a foreign language, but slowly I'm getting it. For example, ложка, when I spell that I can easily pronounce it and it means spoon. Maybe there's hope for me.
Of course there's hope ! Better late than never 😉 💪 good luck
@@dunyazad , thanks.
Нека ти тествам тогава знанията си колко добре можеш да разбираш останалите славянски езици тогава? :) Само, един съвет, е да не наричаш всички славянски езици, че са руски, защото имаме повече разлики, отколкото изглежда. Не говоря руски почти, но знам някои неща, въпреки че за мен само македонския език ми е най-лесен. Като например: Как деля? Как тебя зовут?
Ете ќе зборувам малку македонски да видиш разликата меѓу бугарскиот и македонскиот jазик. Сигурно ќе се изненадаш дека можам да говорам на повеќе од еден jазик, нели? Ти сигурно за тебе сите словенски jазици, се руски, нели? :D Сите, коишто ме видат дека зборувам некоj словенски jазик викаат дека сум русин или сум зборувал руски... Ама е разбирливо што е така и ако сакаш, ете ти една вежба за твоjата практика со кирилицата. Поздрави од Бугариjа! 👍
Same here! I love it! Russian can be intimidating because it seems like every word is 15 characters long! I've picked up some from SADB. It sounds so cool!
Native: Indonesian
Easy: Malay, English
Hard: Finding a comment that is not following this template
That can be applied to literally anyone
Gw gk ngerti sih knp pada comment gini :v
It's like 1 out of 10 probability to find other comment that unsimilar to this wkwk
Lmao
He said that indonesian don't shared vocabularies with dutch. Lol indonesian has many rooted vocabularies from Dutch
Native: Polish
Easy: slavic languages
Hard: convincing people that I don't squat, drink vodka and wear adidas tracksuit
We don't?! You traitor...
you obviously lie.
And convince people that you don't take a shower a month, but a shower a week.
Oh how come?
Adidas is a German brand, not polish.
I have studied Spanish, German and Chinese. Chinese was easiest as far as grammar. I didn't have any issue learning the tones. German is good because it has rules that don't change, but those adjective endings kick my butt. My German relatives are like 😱😱😱😱. Spanish was fairly easy, but they also have case endings. I think the benefit for learning Spanish in America is that you cam hear it pretty much everywhere and find someone to practice your language skills on. That isn't true of the other languages.
There is no easy/hard language. It all boils down to the person's determination to learn and what his/her native language sounds like.
For example, Asians like me find it hard to speak French/Arabic/Dutch/Flemish etc which have that "throat sound" (for the lack of better term).
But Chinese and Russian (which are considered to be among the hardest languages)are quite easy for me.
Native: Malay
Easy: English, Arabic, Indonesian
Hard: Telling people that we actually exist and is a separate country from Indonesia
Aaa.. now i can see buddy here 😌
Bahasa melayu: indonesia, malaysia, brunei, singapore(not really), siam
For indonesian hard is to tell people where is indonesia without speaking about bali.
Hard: convincing fellow maritime SE asians that IT IS OKAY to share culture, food, and language bcs we came from the same ancestor and were a part of one huge kingdom
arab easy??????
Native: Italian.
Easy: French, Spanish.
Hard: Telling people that we don't just say "Pizza Pasta" to communicate with people.
Don't forget about words like: Tortellini, Ravioli & Spaghetti which should be used to speak with perfect grammar :D
@@thesementeameatsweets9199 oh yeah obviously! How could I forget those!?
Vero!
@@ely.m. Uh buonasera :)
@@babs1277 how about the hand language lol
My native language is German. I had little issues understanding Japanese and learning Hiragana, I however stopped because of time issues after a while. By now I am learning Finnish, which is honestly super easy to me.
Danish and Dutch are a level of easy it's nearly unfair for a german speaker because they are so simliar; I took around 6 weeks to be fully conversational in Danish, I can get around, read and just understand pretty much everything. I never learned Dutch in my life but I still understand about everything, especially spoken Dutch in social situations.
I am so thankful I was born into English! I can't imagine trying to learn it as a non-native speaker, and I deeply admire ANYONE who so much as attempts it!
"I can't imagine trying to learn it as a non-native speaker..."
Why not? Because you incorrectly believe that English is uniquely difficult?
"...and I deeply admire ANYONE who so much as attempts it!"
Why? What have you attempted to learn?
Native: Portuguese
Easy: English, Spanish, Russian
Hard: Telling people that we don't speak spanish
Onde que se tiro que russo é fácil kkkk
@@matheusmonteiro7 acho q ele levou em consideração que o português tem muitos sons parecidos com o russo, mas ainda acho que deve ser difícil pra caralho aprender russo. Devia ser italiano no lugar
@@Rafael-vs8qv aa tendi, de fato as vezes quando eu ouço russo ou polonês de longe vem uma sensação de que é português que estão falando
@@matheusmonteiro7 It would've been funny if you responded in Spanish.
@@matheusmonteiro7 Pra mim é fácil pq eu tenho familiares russos kkkkkkk é como se fosse a minha 2ª língua sz