What languages do you find the most complicated?

[heavens-champion 1,905]

For me, it's Celtic languages. The words are difficult to pronounce.

[Victoria Sponge 1,017]

Languages that use a different alphabet, especially Chinese/Japanese where each character is a word and longer words are made up of multiple other words. I also looked into Russian once but had to give up because I couldn't get my head around why the words were pronounced how they were because I was unfamiliar with the Cyrillic alphabet.

[Oleks 1,993]

The languages with overly complicated grammar, like Tsez, which has 64 cases, and the ones with difficult pronunciation, like Chinese with its tones.

[Red Cedar 1,408]

I've been trying to learn Scots Gaelic. That's all kinds of fun. If by fun you mean a language with no specific words for "Yes" or "No" and every single verb has both a positive and negative form of its entire conjugation.

[luftschloss 831]

German gave me a hard time for a while because of cases and pronouns. There's a conjugation for everything. 

[SparklingSquirrels 21,332]

Arabic I think . A lot of the sounds are really hard, plus the script is written from right to left and the grammar is crazy too. Not too mention there're so many different dialects; I've heard Modern Standard Arabic being compared to Latin whereas the other dialects are as different as French/Spanish/Portuguese.

Not sure if that's true though   

(I should clarify that that's only for spoken Arabic, not written)

Edited January 8, 2018 by SparklingSwirls

[Twisted Cyclone 🚓 6,259]

I think Arabic and Russian are the hardest languages to speak/learn. 

[zaqwert11 70]

any language really. heck sometimes i dont even know how to speak my native language....

[Denim&Venöm 18,757]

I get the impression that Finnish is very difficult. 

 

[Tomo 0]

I had trouble trying to learn Korean. Even today I can't hold much of a conversation with it. Aside from that I'd like to learn Russian but the alphabet is very intimidating.

[Snow Frostflame 3,568]

If its not in English, then its pretty complex as it is because I'm not bilingual. Though Asian languages are the ones I have the hardest time understanding.

[Anneal 2,197]

Probably Arabic languages. Being Asian myself, Chinese is one of my first languages, and Japanese is somewhat easier to understand (part of its language is also based off the Chinese language, namely kanji letters).  Korean is alphabetical like English, so if you take the time to learn it, it's probably not as hard as you think.

I do understand that if someone is of European descent though, Germanic languages will roll far easier off the tongue than other languages, while Asian languages would be much more difficult. 

[ChikaChan 7,323]

Russian,Japanese,and Arabic languages.............

[Lucky Bolt 35,062]

Anything other than english lol 

[Splashee 28,563]

Japanese is still too complicated for me. I can't understand why I never got into just the basics by now

[Pastel Heart 6,466]

I tried to learn Japanese.

There's so many different verbs, expressions, characters, meanings for different kanjis and katakanas, some of which look alike, it's kinda crazy. I couldn't keep up.

I can say some things and write some stuff in romanji but that's as far as my legs took me 

[Sherem 4,807]

korean, german, russian and mandarin

[Dreambiscuit 9,675]

Anything that doesn’t use roman script adds another hurdle to the mix. I used to think it was hard learning German and ultimately gave it up. But now that I’m learning Japanese I realize how easy German is by comparison. Japanese has three freaking alphabets, and while hiragana and katakana are pretty easy to learn, the thousands of kanji take it into the realm of the near-impossible! Then the particles and inverted speech patterns throw another curve-ball into the mix in case it wasn’t hard enough already. And yet, despite all this I’m addicted to learning it and will probably spend the rest of my days figuring out this crazy and beautiful language. 

[IronM17 5,354]

Hard to say, there are a lot of languages who are hard to learn. I would say from the languagues which are really common in the world, the hardest would be arabic, mandarine, hindu and japanese. Other languages I personal find really hard are finnish and Icelandic. I also have really big problems to read something in french.

[The Historian 516]

Oh. You mean spoken languages... :p

[Wasp Child 38]

2 hours ago, IronM17 said:

Hard to say, there are a lot of languages who are hard to learn. I would say from the languagues which are really common in the world, the hardest would be arabic, mandarine, hindu and japanese. Other languages I personal find really hard are finnish and Icelandic. I also have really big problems to read something in french.

I've been learning Hindi recently - main thoda Hindi boltah hoon! (I speak a little Hindi) - and I don't find it very hard when it comes to speaking it. Reading the script is another matter, though, 9 vowels and 33 consonants if I'm not mistaken. 

Regardless, I'm focusing on conversing right now, reading and writing can come later.

Don't get me started on French. As a Canadian I deal with it regularly and hate it. Je sais un peu Français, et mon Français est pauvre. (I know a little French, and my French is poor)

Edited January 31, 2020 by Dizzylis

[Fluttershutter 2,425]

Tonal languages are weird.

[Sunamena 426]

I speak good Dutch and decent English.


I am learning German and French.
Writing french is good, but speaking, especially understanding it when they speak is difficult.
In German the speaking and understanding is good. But the writing is hard.

For both new languages I am in my first year. =3

[TheRockARooster 50,846]

I’m not good with any other language except English.

[The Kaeya Simp 13,988]

On 1/8/2018 at 4:53 PM, heavens-champion said:

For me, it's Celtic languages. The words are difficult to pronounce.

For me it is also Celtic languages, the grammer is very complex, pronounciation is easy in my experience (but as I am Scottish, my English accent was probably influenced from Gaelic natives who moved to Glasgow and had to learn English)