What languages do you find the most complicated?

[Lord Valtasar 12,690]

even though it's simple to write japanese, it's so dificult to read them because they combine 3 different alphabets, one of which is the chinese one, so i'll go with that
as for verbal dificulties, i had a hard time pronouncing some sylables in malagasy
haven't tried to learn any other, non-latin-based languages so i'll stick to those as my answer

[Pandora 38,063]

I think Chinese by speaking all though some words are super easy to say while Japanese is a lot easier for me

[Fluttershutter 2,489]

English can be pretty complicated.

 

[Dabmanz 2,139]

I am learning japanese which can be confusing at times though I think German is probably one of the most complicated I have not tried to learn german though.

[Pentium100 2,129]

Languages that use non-Latin and non-Cyrillic alphabets, especially ones that use hieroglyphs, like Japanese. Normally, I can at least figure out how the word is supposed to sound, maybe it is similar to another word etc. But if I see a Kanji character I either know it or don't and if I don't there is not way to figure out what it means or how it sounds like. In addition, memorizing thousands of characters is not for me.

[zoloft 117]

any language with articles & grammatical genders.

as a native speaker of a language with no articles, i find them mad hard to learn. i studied german in high school and tried to learn a few other european languages by myself, but everytime i got into the articles i got stuck. those are way too complicated for me to learn.

[Fluttershutter 2,489]

9 hours ago, zoloft said:

as a native speaker of a language with no articles, i find them mad hard to learn..

What language is that?

[zoloft 117]

14 hours ago, Fluttershutter said:

What language is that?

turkish!

[Splashee 28,564]

While I think most if not all languages are complicated, I still hate that I haven't figured out even the most basic Japanese yet.

 

(I cannot even speak proper Yoda, so...?)

[Stone Cold Steve Jobs 22,440]

I am barely unilingual. 

[Vefka 1,499]

Chinese

Unlike the most languages it doesn't use characters or words but hieroglyphics. Even a young kid should know 2000+ different hieroglyphics!

Plus pronunciation is a very important thing here and accent can really mess you up

[Midnight Danny 9,025]

For me, the most difficult languages to learn or to speak are Russian, Chinese and Arabic. 

[ponygirl2020 58]

I would have to say Classical Arabic. The forms of Arabic used in common speech are always very localized and often simplified forms of it. Actually reading the original calligraphy that stuff like the Qur'an is written in is really really difficult, enough so for Arabic speakers and probably ten times more for English speakers.

Besides that, I'm not sure. Lots of people say that Polish is difficult, but I've never understood why. We're just Slavs that use Latin instead of Cyrillic.

[Sonic Shimmer 4,132]

Hungarian is well known for being extremely difficult to learn.

[The Kaeya Simp 13,989]

22 hours ago, gurokama said:

Besides that, I'm not sure. Lots of people say that Polish is difficult, but I've never understood why. We're just Slavs that use Latin instead of Cyrillic.

I think it's part spelling conventions and part the fact that it's got Slavic grammar (most English speakers find Slavic grammar difficult),
For me it was the spelling conventions, cause I had to read the word many times to get a good guess of how to even pronounce the word

 

I would have to say that romance languages (Spanish, Romanian, Italian, Portuguese, etc) are the hardest in my experience 

[ponygirl2020 58]

5 minutes ago, Sherbie-kun <3 said:

I think it's part spelling conventions and part the fact that it's got Slavic grammar (most English speakers find Slavic grammar difficult),
For me it was the spelling conventions, cause I had to read the word many times to get a good guess of how to even pronounce the word

Yeah I understand that. Slavic languages in general are definitely weird for a lot of English speakers. I always figured it would be the easier of the Slavic languages though. Like the grammar is definitely weird, but once you memorize how to pronounce cz, w, etc. it gets easier.

Though also I'm kind of biased. I can defo imagine the average English speaker having a panic attack when they see how many Z's are in words like "mezczyzna".

[The Kaeya Simp 13,989]

3 minutes ago, gurokama said:

Yeah I understand that. Slavic languages in general are definitely weird for a lot of English speakers. I always figured it would be the easier of the Slavic languages though. Like the grammar is definitely weird, but once you memorize how to pronounce cz, w, etc. it gets easier.

Though also I'm kind of biased. I can defo imagine the average English speaker having a panic attack when they see how many Z's are in words like "mezczyzna".

yeah, like for me I have to read it as if it's in blocks, and analyse every part of the letter, d ż d ż o w n i c a, or m e z cz y z n a, and have to read it a couple times then I can get a basic pronunciation out

I actually found Russian way easier than Polish (took me around 2 weeks to learn to read Cyrillic)

saying that, after starting to learn Dutch I was amazed at how easy it was (learned about the same amount I did in Russian, in a year, within less than 3 weeks in Dutch)

[zerox 1,126]

You should try learning slovenian. Most non slavic people find it quite difficult to learn. Also there is probably a lack of learning resources like books, online and off-line courses etc as only 2 million people speak it.

Edited July 31, 2020 by zerox

[Splashee 28,564]

I find Power PC assembler language kinda confusing, as well as ARM assembler. But they are effective, being in the newest gaming consoles and cell phones

[Vefka 1,499]

4 hours ago, Splashee® said:

I find Power PC assembler language kinda confusing, as well as ARM assembler.

But have you tried whitespace?

[Dreambiscuit 9,874]

I always had difficulty speaking any language that assigns gender to different words; it always seemed like a pointless added step. I was happy to find that Japanese doesn’t have that hurdle, but unfortunately they have quite a few other challenges that make gendered words sound like a vacation. 

[Sepul-Coloratura 762]

Programming Language. 

[Petrus 696]

On 8/1/2020 at 3:07 AM, Sepul-Coloratura said:

Programming Language. 

It's painfully true

I'm learning Japanese（にほんご）for when I go to visit and that's a pretty tough one. I've learned and am almost fluent in spanish from when I was a cook. But Japanese (And I think Chinese) is rough because instead of saying something like "I ate an apple" it goes "Apple I ate" It's like completely the opposite of what you're used to.

However it is still fun to learn, I highly recommend it for people who want a challenge when learning a new language.　

Edited August 4, 2020 by Petrus

[KatonRyu 1,033]

Of the ones I'm currently doing on Duolingo, Hungarian. The words are easy enough to understand, I just keep screwing up the word order. From all the languages I can think of, though, anything tonal, and African clicking language.