Sorry guys but English is definitely the hardest language to learn... Its easy to learn the basics but impossible to master compared to other languages. ( or at least the 3 that i have learned and learning)

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true......but i think it also dependz on wat lang u learn first....ur native lang alwayz gonna be natural to u.....n as for hardness......is teachin....say.....a chinese guy english harder den teaching a white person chnz? hmm......dunno.....

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English is turning into a Universal language. If your native language is English than i think is easier to learn others more quickly. But i would have to look up actually statistics to back me up on this.. Will check soon

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Originally posted by lady_j
I heard that Hungarian (Magyar?) was really hard to learn, like if you didn't learn how to speak it before you were 10 years old you have no chance of ever picking it up.

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i've also heard that hungarian is very difficult to learn. (and you are correct it's called magyar in hungarian)
i'm hungarian and was born there, but i came to the states at age 3 so i have some difficulties with some of the bigger and longer words. hungarian has so many suffixes! and there are sounds that don't exist in english so it's hard for english-speakers to pick it up.
i found japanese and the romance languages much easier to learn. even swahili was easier in terms of pronunciation.
i think difficult languages to learn are chinese, thai, hmong, other tonal langs.

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chinese is hardest Language!!
T^T..gosh chinese is hard..T^T

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actully i think reading and writing chinese characters is the easiest part of chinese:

its much easier to write chinese cuz if you want to write shorthand, you simply write in a "walking style" or "running style", which means that you are combining the strokes, making writing chinese even easier than english.

btw, cantonese is harder to learn than mandarin for most people since, there are many more inflections of sound than in mandarin which is considered a more "modern" dailect.

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Originally posted by Ladi Jay
do you think native american languages are hard to learn?

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