Whats hardest - Chinese (either major), Korean, Japanese, Persian or Arabic

The great thing about them is that they are deep and have led to some of the greatest literature out there. These are officially regarded the toughest (i added Persian just to ask), does anybody have experience of them? Some people say that even Korean is in a league of its own.

I know that learning Western European languages are pee in the bucket in comparison and yet we all complained back in school, but how do the Eastern European languages compare?

Lastly, just how similar are the Far Eastern languages i stated? English to Romantic (French, Spanish, Italian etc.) or English to Germanic (even though English is from that family).

Well, I have never studied any launge asides from spainish, and even in that I'm not that great. However I do know that Japanese does not include an and words similar to that. While Japanese stresses Titles at the ends of names, and some regions even have their own titles they give to people, much like you people in the south typically say Y'all.

I would say Arabic looks pretty hard to learn, but I have no experience with the language.

persian is extremely easy (i can speak it fluently). dono about chinese or japanese but i heard arabic is difficult

I would say Arabic looks pretty hard to learn, but I have no experience with the language.

Yandere

persian is extremely easy (i can speak it fluently). dono about chinese or japanese but i heard arabic is difficult

butteman12

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I would say Arabic looks pretty hard to learn, but I have no experience with the language.

GulliversTravel

I've always thought their writing system looked hard to read, Punjabi takes that to a extreme though.

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I would say Arabic looks pretty hard to learn, but I have no experience with the language.

Yandere

I've always thought their writing system looked hard to read, Punjabi takes that to a extreme though.

learn persian so you can get the girls. speaking isn't that hard. but thats coming from an iranian, but i havnt even attempted to learn to read or write, thats a different story.nimatoad2000

I only speak Chinese(native language) so I don't know, but I know that Korean and Japanese are influence by Chinese though. I would like to add that even thought Chinese is my native language, I still find it ****ing hard.

I'm Egyptian and I've pretty much given up on learning arabic. I've never been able to speak because quite a few of the words sound similar. Also lots of adjectives and nouns need to make gender/plural agreements.

[QUOTE="nimatoad2000"]learn persian so you can get the girls. speaking isn't that hard. but thats coming from an iranian, but i havnt even attempted to learn to read or write, thats a different story.GulliversTravel

Any language is easy if you commit yourself to learning it.

All of those are hard, but the hardest is probably Arabic. There are so many grammatical rules and it's hard for an English speaker like me to pronounce. But I love the language!

\ The only reason I know anything about it (Arabic) is because of its associations with Hebrew and Aramaic (with them being Biblical languages). mindstorm

Some interesting comparisons (Hebrew to Arabic):

Ribbit > Ribba > Interest

Layla > Layl > Night

Shalom alaikum > Asalamu alaikum > Peace be upon you

Messiah > Masi' > Messiah

Rabbi > Rabbi > My educator

So many similarities! :o

[QUOTE="mindstorm"]\ The only reason I know anything about it (Arabic) is because of its associations with Hebrew and Aramaic (with them being Biblical languages). ghoklebutter

Some interesting comparisons (Hebrew to Arabic):

Ribbit > Ribba > Interest

Layla > Layl > Night

Shalom alaikum > Asalamu alaikum > Peace be upon you

Messiah > Masi' > Messiah

Rabbi > Rabbi > My educator

So many similarities! :o

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[QUOTE="mindstorm"]\ The only reason I know anything about it (Arabic) is because of its associations with Hebrew and Aramaic (with them being Biblical languages). mindstorm

Some interesting comparisons (Hebrew to Arabic):

Ribbit > Ribba > Interest

Layla > Layl > Night

Shalom alaikum > Asalamu alaikum > Peace be upon you

Messiah > Masi' > Messiah

Rabbi > Rabbi > My educator

So many similarities! :o

Haha I used to hear that song a lot. :P RIP Cash.

I'm curious why you would learn Aramaic though. Isn't it pretty much a dead language?

Haha I used to hear that song a lot. :P RIP Cash.

I'm curious why you would learn Aramaic though. Isn't it pretty much a dead language?

ghoklebutter

If your native language is English, then I'm going to say Chinese is probably the most difficult. I'm American-born Chinese, but I barely spoke Cantonese growing up, and I studied Japanese for 4 years in high school and some in college. Chinese is just so drastically different from English that it's difficult to even begin to learn the language imo. There's so many subtle tones that you'll need to learn and a vast amount of Chinese characters that you'll need to read and write as well. Japanese has similar difficulties, but the spoken language is much more phonetic and the written language translates better to roman characters. Either way, learning any Asian language with a native English tongue will be difficult and will require a good deal of discipline and effort to truly learn.

I'm Arabic so i can't judge, but Chinese looks difficult, its pretty darn hard to memorize 3000+ letterskrazy-blazer

That's the kanji, and yes, as far as the far Eastern languages go, learning kanji is a real pain.

I'm only familiar with a Chinese, Japanese & Korean and I would say that Chinese is by far the hardest due to multitude of inflections present and the limitations of characters when writing. After that I would say Korean is the next hardest for the native English speaker due to some very tricky hard to hear vocal inflections in the m, n, and g territory -- but the written language is fairly easy compared to other language due to its being a more modern creation.

Japanese is probably the easiest to pick up the basics and just roll with it as the pronunciations are fairly basic and the language itself is very accepting of foreign words and phrases. There's still that Kanji hump to get over if you want to get serious but once you get used to the radicals it becomes fairly second nature to piece together and then...oh the puns you'll enjoy!

Don't really know much about Arabic or Persian although I'm very fond of some of the Arabic that I've heard.

I hear Chinese is harder to learn at first, but Japanese is harder to master.

Japanese is easy and Korean is even easier than Japanese. Chinese is all right if you work at it. Arabic may be kind of challenging, the visual structure is odd. Go with the one you like the most. Out of all those though, Korean is probably the easiest, although Japanese may be more fun.avatar_genius

Arabic is really easy to write with little practice. I suggest this website for anyone with that difficulty.

I've been told that Chinese is very difficult to learn by a lot of my American friends. What I have witness so far is people have a relatively easier time learning to speak Mandarin but have a difficult time learning kanji. It takes a lot of work just trying to memorize the characters, while the pinyin system makes it as painless as possible for those learning how to speak.

I like to learn Korean or Japanese if given the chance, it is especially a marketable ability when trying to find job at companies with substantial international exposure.

Japanese is fun to learn if you are into their culture.Arabic is really the most strong/expressive language out there,which may make it hardest to learn.

but the problem with japanese is you do something in japanese in numerous ways,which makes japanese alittle too much sometimes.

Arabic is my first language, and even though it is pretty hard and complicated, i think east-asian languages are harder

The great thing about them is that they are deep and have led to some of the greatest literature out there. These are officially regarded the toughest (i added Persian just to ask), does anybody have experience of them? Some people say that even Korean is in a league of its own.

I know that learning Western European languages are pee in the bucket in comparison and yet we all complained back in school, but how do the Eastern European languages compare?

Lastly, just how similar are the Far Eastern languages i stated? English to Romantic (French, Spanish, Italian etc.) or English to Germanic (even though English is from that family).

Arabic is seriously easy (read my user name and be enlightened). French, is pretty easy (extremely similar to English). Chinese, Korean, Japanese are the killers.

I, in total, know about 7 languages: Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, English, French, though I must say that the South Asian languages are very similar.

I'm not sure why people think Arabic is hard...

For an English speaking American Chinese and Arabic are the two hardest language to learn (I think they're level 5 or whatever).

I actuallt took Arabic for a year in College. Admitadly I didnt put as much effort into it as I should have but it really is a very tough language. Expect to spend alot of extra time on it and tons of repition. The writing goes from right to left (as do the books) and each letter looks different depending on where it is in the word. Learning to read and write in arabic can be overwhelming at first but if you put down enough effort you should do fine. I always had trouble pronouncing words, and understanding what others said in Arabic as for me alot of the letters, vocal sounds and accents would sound too similar to me. I would still recommend trying it out though, plus you could make like six figures right out of school if your good enough.

For an English speaking American Chinese and Arabic are the two hardest language to learn (I think they're level 5 or whatever).

I actuallt took Arabic for a year in College. Admitadly I didnt put as much effort into it as I should have but it really is a very tough language. Expect to spend alot of extra time on it and tons of repition. The writing goes from right to left (as do the books) and each letter looks different depending on where it is in the word. Learning to read and write in arabic can be overwhelming at first but if you put down enough effort you should do fine. I always had trouble pronouncing words, and understanding what others said in Arabic as for me alot of the letters, vocal sounds and accents would sound too similar to me. I would still recommend trying it out though, plus you could make like six figures right out of school if your good enough.

JackMcSexbeard

What is my username in english?

Anyone who says Japanese is difficult is lying. It's EXTREMELY easy. The syntax is easy, there's no verb conjugation (although there are different verb forms) and pronunciation is no trouble at all. Reading and writing can be troubling at times, but to speak and listen to, it's child's play.karriston

Anyone that knows a bit of background on these languages knows that Chinese is the hardest. Words with different meanings depending on the pronunciation tone, thousands of characters that don't follow a certain rule of thumb, major regional differences, it's been simplified, even the Chinese themselves have trouble with it, according to what my friends tell me.