What's The Hardest Language?

English LOL

That is why I can't learn any other one!

I think all these people who can speak English AS WELL as their own are BILLIANT LOL


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i thought that too :) keekee

you remind me of that Lordi monster

How can u say English? Καλά με κοροϊδεύετε μεημεριάτικα;

BECAUSE many words have Different meetings yet are spelt the same as others, or are spelt the same but pronounced the same,

FAST means high speed
FAST means stuck *fast* with glue
FAST means going without food!

Wind means the air blowing (long i)
wind means to turn on a spindle (Short i)

Bow = ribbon tied prettily
bow = what you do at the end of a play on a stage
Bow = what you shoot arrows with!
Bow = used on a violin!
Bow-Wow = what a dog says lol
bough pronounced as in dog language is part of a branch of a tree

hehehe

Now how confusing that must be for you

Also English is not ONE language it is MANY!

English has no hard and fast rules, nearly every rule has exceptions.

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How imaginative! Ur vocabulary is really poor! But u must know that this phenomenon occurs in almost all the lnguages. trust me! Ok nd hear that I paly, u play, he plays, we play, you play, they play!Ich spiele, du spielst, er spielt, wir spielen, ihr spielt, sie spielen. Much more difficult. How boring! or the cat, the dog, the chair, the the the the... Une femme, un homme, un chien and bla bla bla. + ur language is a bad mixture-bastard of German and French-Latin.

That is why I can't learn any other one!
What a dump xcuse! lol

WELL I can tell you that you are not dumb! (Dumb means you can't speak lol!)

Nor are you stupid! You seem to me to be very clever!. Gosh fancy being able to explain that in a such a hard language as ours, and it is not your natural one. You put me to shame

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It is hard bcause ur vocabulary is SO limited! Don t u get it?

wow! ingrid! thats impression
t'as l'air super doué en langues!! have u studied linguistics or sumthg!?!?

Les langues (etrangeres) m interessent trop. J etudie la Langue Anglais at ce moment a Athenes...

and which languages do u speak apart from english , greek and french?

Je croix que je fais un tabbac (aussi) avec les allemagnes... Mon pere est d(?) Autriche. Mais je veux apprendre les italiens aussi...

si t'as deja un bon niveau de francais, comme toi tu l'as deja - l'italien et l'espanyole est plutot facile a apprendre!

Non,non..Je croix que mon niveau aux francais est insuffisant... Je dois les ameliorer... Mais pourquoi parles t les francais?

dsl , jai pas trop compris la derniere partie?
u mean, y do i speak french?
well, my maternal language in mtius is a "french Patois" so that explains y i speak french naturally...
and then i'm a gifted writer - am fascinated by languages!

English vocabulary is the richest of all languages fyi.
:P

hmm wrong

There's more to english than what you just described, but hey, not gonna change your mind no matter how hard I try.

I prefer German anyway. Beautiful language.

... its true english is a bastard mix of different languages.. BUT the result is a fucking fanatastic language and thats all that matters.
And i also agree, as much as i love english, i love german the most. Pity ive become so s*i* at it lately.

Heh, same. Haven't practiced it since I left highschool. >_<

amazing answer

donot think so... However who is speaking Greece except in Greece and Cyprus? And maybe some words found their way in science? However except the figuere Pi most names in Mathemathica Are of Arabian origin... Al-Gebra, Al-Gorythm (ok it is English influences in this way),
And I mind finding German boring! And we are no bastards! Paying for poor Greece in EU!

What about the bough of a ship? lol xP

Ah but that is the same as the bough of a tree! LOL

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It's a derivative from the bough of a tree, from the old hollow-outs, but it's still slightly different, as it's "evolved"

Speak of the bough of a tree today. Then look to a carrier, the bough of a carrier. They are quite different now, even though that is the origin of the term for a ship.

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I m not going 2 discuss any further bcause Americans just believe that they r the best in everything. I just wanna say that the etymology of Greek word much more difficult. U can find a word of 4 letters and this can b consisted of 3 different words... But what am I saying? U will never change... According 2 researches most of Americans belive that b4 them history did not even exist, they merely red 1 or 2 books in their lives nd bla bla bla... Look at the president u have. SUch a dumb! Such a shame! Or even ur political parties which only know how 2 throw parties without xpressing opinions, programmes nd so on... Did u know how the whole world is making fun of u? Authors and poets like Joachim Fernau, or Kurt Tucholsky -who in his text called "The human" he ends by saying and next 2 human they r animals and Americans but I can't tell u about them bcause I haven't study zoology jet- just point at u and laugh. U r showing us a deliber8ed world but u r sooo lke Puritans with girls fucked from the ass just not 2 loose their virginity...! We Greeks, we r not perfect or the chosrn ones and we have no common with the ancient Greeks but at least we r not so dumb... USA is om the mercy of Judes nd u believe that ur dumb Busch is governing who doesn't even know the name of the president in Pakistan nd Iraq.... Heil McDonalds, heil unhealthy people! Long last the stupidity! And those were my last words. I can't waste my time with someone who believes that English language is difficult! U live ina an illusion which some others created 4 u! I have better things 2 do so bye!

Italian is a beautiful language!

My wife thinks it is too lol
She is Latin & and Ancient Greek teacher lol
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there are proofs out there, studies that confirm English (proper) as being one of the most difficult languages of the world. You want to throwin politics and generalize everything to such an extreme that your references to "America" are like me talking about Hitler's great economy and plan... and then blaming those from Greece -- after all, you're in Europe too!... kind of stupid to broaden and generalize o such an extreme isn't it?


So don't. Grow up and recognize that EVERY nation lies, that there is no such thing as a "good nation" and then, try to stay ON TOPIC -- you know... LANGUAGE not rampant tangents trying to back your opinion, while completely ignoring mine and claiming it as discredited on fictional proofs.


So you want to be done? Good, because quite honestly, your rays of incoherent psychobabble are far from the bulwark you suggest, and only further prove the considerable lack of thought, as supported through your polyglotical malformations and Picasso-like interpretation of reality. Frankly, your misspellings and topic hopping are enough to make even your point nearly intangible at best. Good day.

Hi Ro. I was getting worried there I was thinking you were replying to me! then I looked more careful and saw was the long, message higher up which I had failed to read cause it was long lol
GOSH RO you know bigger words than I know.
I will have to tell you about my three experiences in USA schols/Universities some time regards English Language! QUITE FUN !
See you
take care
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There are so many forms of English... that's part of what makes it more difficult... lol. I mean really, taking "common" English and trying to talk about that as though it's the embodiment of English... that's about like saying because you know how to put air in a tire, you can build a car from scratch! That girl got me upset, I'm sorry but she needs to learn a little more before mouthing off on whims and providing opinions as facts without ANY proof!


If she said it was her OPINION, then it would be fine with me, but she came across to me as all "holier than THOU!" and basically said that I was wrong and she was right, because she said so. EXCUSE ME?!? lol


I'd never get upset with you Chris; I know that you always are more than willing to give proof to back what you say, or you say it's your opinion :D That's one of the reasons that I like to read what you have to say so much.


The differences in Australian, American, Canadian, and British English is truly amazing sometimes, isn't it? lol Just the common use names of things cause a lot of hilarity at times! haha...


Skip, Lou, Toilet, Browner, stink bin, porcelain throne, white seat, Spinner, drop spot, etc... Who'd have even thought about all those names?!? hahaha... it's insanity trying to keep current with friends from all the "major" English speaking countries... haha :S


Examples:
Gotta love "Bin" and "Lift" in American vs. British... lol
British: Bin = Trash can
American: Bin = Mass Container/ storage container


British: Lift = Elevator
American: Lift = Construction machinery (not to be confused with the fork-lift)


There are many others... my ex and myself had a WORLD of confusion trying to understand one another to begin with... haha :P
lol

You never make mistkes eh? American English...nite instead of NIGHT, spoiling the good old English. Moreover I`d advise you to use notmal spoken language as you deal here with ppl from different countries and not all have studied Anglistic.

I suggest you look into the origins of nite, and the differences that exist between "night" and "nite" -- they are NOT the same thing.
Americans have adjusted "English" the same as have Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, etc. It's called inherent localization of terminology. We don't always truncate, but rather we broaden, and create "everyday slang" that becomes a part of our society, and is then widely accepted as normal, although not always proper.
I'm extremely tired of people who talk as if their crap doesn't stink to me. The etymologies that are inherent in ANY language are derivative of a common language (traced far enough back) that has been corrupted and polluted by the same diversification and splintering of the "base" language terms is the natural progression of each nationality and locality, that has been in motion for all recorded history.
I don't care what nation you are from, your language is a true BASTARD language, there is not such thing as a pure language in the modern world. Every language has been "tweaked" with the adoption of foreign language terminology, derivatives, contractions, slang terminologies, etc.
Nite vs. Night. vs. Knight... It's a monotonous argument, and is nothing more than the blatant realization that you cannot contribute to any true problem in my reasoning, so you have had to try to attack the semantics of the way of speech of a group of people, of which your comment was attacking me, when I hadn't used the term.
By the way:
Nite = Abbreviated form of "Good night" used in informal settings.
Night = The opposite of day, when the moon is out.
Knight = A warrior that holds to the concepts of chivalry, and the ideals of loyalty derived from the medieval concepts set forth to the majority of the public of today in such literary works as "King Aurthur and the Knights of the Round Table" or some of the Shakespearian plays.
As I had said prior, I am working to learn other languages as well. If someone believes they are ready to attack another language, they should know enough to be able to either keep up, or at least have the ability to research enough to understand what is being debated. If they cannot, then that person should not be arguing about the language until they can stand alone, competent.

Languages are in constant change....
Did I tell you I have great fun when I was in the USA on my world trip. For I visited two junior schools (6 to 10) and two universities. In three of them (The two Junior schools) I told the children and how USA & UK English use the same words to mean different things. It waas great fun, and even the teachers didn't know all of them! I did more or less the same in the Oklahoma University, where they were studying how English changes.
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HEY NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN RO. Missed you

It's strange because most non-English speaking people don't understand that while a lift to you is an elevator to me, that we can understand one another, as well as people such as Aslyn speaking of her "shrimp on the barbie" or the "hop about" out back...



Apparently, there isn't such a chasm of terminology between the Arabic languages? Perhaps the Iranians and those in Iraq can speak to one another without having to be able to understand that their languages aren't identical? Or perhaps the people arguing so harshly are relating to the fact that there is NO difference between Imperial Chinese, Taiwanese, or Cantonese?



I honestly think that they just want to fight because they have nothing better to do... lol



I'm sorry I was gone for so long, I had a lot that I had to work through... still some things that I'm struggling with, but I should be back a bit more regularly now...



I've missed you too :) *HUGS Grandpa Chris*
Hopefully you've been well?

Iran (former Persia) and its pplare of Indo-Arian origin and Farsi is an Indo-Arian language. Arabic is a Semitic language. Iranian ppl use the Arabian alphabet (with some additional signs) but the language is totally different. Same as Urdu (Pakistan, nearly same language as Hindi which used in India) or Pashto (Afghanistan). Even teh style of writing Arabic letters is different from the Arabian way.

Chinese-the Chinese letters were an invention of the First Imperor. They mean in every language the same. This letters where needed due to the many Ethnic groups with own language and dialects. Mandarin was supposed to be the "high language" (and mostly what you might learn as Chinese in courses).

oh no :( i believe english is hard too :P
but for slightly different reasons...
hehe... mine is mainly out of being told that it is :P from teachers at school etc.. they explained that it was due to it actually being a combination of so many other languages...
which you seem to back that up...
i think that thus, being a combo of other languages.. means that to truly understand the roots (origin) of the words, can sometimes be a little more confusing... but i am just purely speculating...
to me all languages seem difficult.. .even english... and its the only one i speak :P i think i should speak pictures ;)
also... i believe u are correct there :P most americans do not seem to know that the rest of the world is laughing at them from afar... due to the fact that they cannot understand words with greater than two syllables :P (sorry yanks... rash generalisation there)

generalizations... haha ;P


polyglotical = 2 syllables huh? :P haha (just picking... hehe)


The "melting pot" language is English... there are many origins, and similar words can come from completely different base languages at times, making the origins and phonetics useful, but not always correct. This is one of the points made as to why English is a harder language -- we have rules for English, but many of the "borrowed" terms from other languages don't follow the rules. Thus, the WIDE array of sounds a SINGLE letter can make in English, versus usual SINGLE sounds to letters in other languages.

how sad U only see the problems and not the beauty of USA- beside what does that hav to do with our language. Oh by the way English is spoken in other countries and didnt even orginate in the USA.

Hi Lynn, I presume this is not aimed at me LOL
And I don't think it is aimed at Ro either?
(The way the threads are organised sometimes becomes difficult to follow lol)
I think it is sad when anyone sees only one side of a country or place or person.
Have a good weekend Lynn
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it is aimed at ingrid amali ( from Greece)
and I know what U mean about the threads

lol Ingrid Amali!!!

my god! u blasted off like anything :P rightly said :)

sorry to say this but americans are not perfect in no way..i am a american and all languages are very hard for me to learn..i no a few words in french..but your very wrong..i am not perfect..and you have all americans wrong on what you say about them Greece is a very beautiful country..and how you speak in your language is so cool.so any way your wrong on how americans are..not all think america is all that great..i live here but not happy with the crappy government and bush i hate them

i think you have issues...i agree with those who says that english is the hardest language...because it really..it doesnt matter where it comes from..because all languages comes from another language...and as someone said what makes english so beautiful..is that it is made up of many different language including greek....not even english speaking people can understand english to it's full extent..there are so many variables in the language...and i dont think that ure reaction to his comment was necessary...it was just a simple belief..the same way u believe that greek is the best....the same way we believe that english is the best..and of course we all know whose right....and i dont know another language except the dialect of english, but in what other language has a word that has so many meanings or so many different type of words that are spelled the same, sound the same, and mean different things?

I beg to differ, whoever invented those words was simply not creative enough to make a different one :p

ever came on the sentence of one word that is pronaunced almost as same but have totally different meanings...for example:
"GORE GORE GORE, GORE"....

That applies to every language including mine. To give u some examples
lane = lie (lie as not telling the truth)
lane = twist (twist as twisting the metal)
lane = gender

back to the topic, I think arabic looks difficult. All I can c is straight lines with dots, not to mention its from right to left system.

Oh the right-to-left writing is not teh problem, not even the writing it self as it is very easy to learn and all is written as pronounced-but ther is the trouble. They do not write vowels, except in Quranic texts. And the grammar is quite hard. However learn talking first and then try to learn writing.
Ma`asalamah

u forgot about rainBOW teehee x)

and...
There, Their and They're.

i totally agree with english
i think i was pretty lucky to be born where i was taught from birth, otherwise i deff wouldn't spend time to learn all the rules and such
since i already know english and it's my 1st language i would say chinese/japanese/korean pretty much anything with symbols like that. it's like trying to read wingdings =S

daaaang...its all greek to me O_0

Hi Chris, I thought English is the easiest one. It only have three pronouns...He, She and it. Two of them are for human and last one is for everythign else...lol..lol.

Whereas in some language they use differet gender and pronouns for every obejct. For example, in some language Shoe is a female gender, so you use "she" for shoe while as mountains are of male gender you use "he" for them...and so on..:)

SO the female (shoe) walks all over the male (Mountain) lol!
My twisted mind always takes things out of context!
I agree with you on that point. BUT our spelling is so weired because of the many ways that our words come from. SO many languages have ENTERED ours that spelling is so illogical.
For instance
GHOTI (not a real word) but it can be pronounced quite legitimatly as though it were a common word lol!
I will tell you if you ask LOL
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lol..I like that!...female walks all over the male...lol..
What does "Ghoti" mean?

WELL obviously you were never one of pupils lol (I tought maths, but I did a few crazy things at end of term and this was one of them!
GHOTI
GH pronounced as in couGH
O prounced as in wOmen
TI as in naTIon
GOT it now LOL
Now you get the scale of my maddness! lol
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I am in deep see, pls rescue me..lol..lol..

GH couGH cof ie F
O wOmen wImen ie I
TI naTIon naSHon ie SH
GHOTI = FISH
You have to SAY the words lol
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deap SEA?

French is exactly like u said. U need to know the gender of objects in order to use correct pronoun. And the conjugation of verbs base on those pronouns is confusing.

THAT is not true...english doesnt have three pronouns..it has MANY. i he she him it you me...plus many other.and those are only the basic..there are words that u wouldnt even expect to be a pronoun that is a pronoun...if u do nt know what u are talkin about..dont talk..cause u sound stupid

Arabic is :D

For many reasons arabic is the hardest, first of all you have to know how to pronounce the letters of every single word and it all depends on the word before and the word after and maybe the first word of the sentence and the one after the word after, heh! Confused, eeh?
and every single letter in arabic can be pronounced in different ways well there are about 10 different pronunciations for every single letter of every single word and it all depends on our very complicated grammer, heh!
For Example The letter أ it can be pronounced like "A", "E" "AO" "E'" "ea" "E'A" "Aaa" ....etc.

agreed....with all the hamzat and fathat and kasrat....wow...it is kinda confusing...but, alahmdulilah i am slowly learning...

Tanween, Shadda, Hamzat on chairs and hamzan not on chairs lol..etc. :D anyways wish u the best of luck with ur studies :D

Thanks...Allah ye selemak!

i agree
i have been told numerous times by teachers etc that the most hard language to learn is english... due to it not really being a language as such, but more a bastardisation of alot of other languages...
and i definately agree anyone that can speak english as well as their own language, even if they dont speak english very well, they are very intelligent...

english is not that diffult i paaed from the o level exam and also the alevel exam, maltese is really hard, it took me wuite sometime to get the 0 level exam , they say it is one of the most difficuly languages it is the only language with sound liek arabic but its written in roman letter alphabeth though we have letters which there arent in the roman letters