Icelandic and Gothic and Norse and Faroese are some of the easiest category 1 languages with very easy category 1 pronunciation and the word memorability / prettiness of the words from the easiest languages ever like English and Dutch and Norwegian, Hungarian is a mid category 2 language that also has easy pronunciation and very memorable words, and Finnish / Estonian / Latvian are category 2 languages as well that are just slightly harder to memorize than Hungarian etc, they are among the easiest languages with very light spelling that use normal letters (the Latin alphabet aka the easiest alphabet ever) and don’t belong on this list, they should be on easy languages lists, tho I guess it’s still good that they were at least included on a list, as they don’t get included often, tho they should be among the top recommendations on every language recommendation list as the Norse languages like Icelandic and Norse etc are the most alpha languages ever created and are among the prettiest ever like English and Dutch etc, and Hungarian is also very pretty as most Hungarian words are very pretty and easy to memorize, as one naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster! 🇮🇸
Navajo is a category 6 language, harder than Russian which is category 5 with different alphabet, and harder than category 4 languages such as Polish and Czech with very heavy spelling that isn’t easy to read, which are definitely not easier than Icelandic which has a way lighter spelling that is lighter than the spelling of French or German etc and is very easy to read, so it isn’t easier than Hungarian - I am learning Icelandic and Norse and all other Germanic languages and Hungarian and Finnish etc, and they are all very easy to read / learn, náda ‘hard’ about them, tho any language is going to seem ‘hard’ to a beginner, I guess, but, the real hard languages that are objectively hard are category 6 to category 10 languages with odd scripts and characters and tones etc that are impossible to read / memorize / pronounce etc!
By the way, my current levels are... - upper intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / German - writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish - upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian - intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian / Welsh - beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene - total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / Urkers / Hunsrik / East Norse / Ruhrpöttisch / Alemannic / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Pälzische Deutsch / Austrian German / Waddisch / Palatine German / Westföälsk Sassisk / Austro-Bavarian / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / Sognamål / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Yiddish / Afrikaans / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc) (I highly recommend learning Dutch / Icelandic + Norse + Faroese / Norwegian as they are so magical, as pretty / refined / poetic as English - all other Germanic and the other pretty languages on my list are also gorgeous, so they are all a great option!)
The correct rankings are... Icelandic / Norse / Faroese and Slovene are category 1 languages, and Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian are category 2 languages - they should be on easy languages list, they don’t belong on this list, as do all other Germanic languages! Irish and Scottish Gaelic are category 3 languages, still pretty easy, compared to most others! Czech and Polish are category 4 languages with very heavy spelling! Russian is a category 5 language using a different alphabet! Navajo is a category 6 or category 7 language, totally not easier than Hungarian lol! Thai and Vietnamese are category 8 and 7 languages, extremely difficult to learn / memorize / understand or to differentiate between such short words that sound exactly the same, same as Chinese and Korean words! Arabic and Korean are category 9 languages, impossible to read and to understand short words that sound exactly the same! Japanese is category 9.5 or 10, as its writing is as hard as that of Chinese, honestly, only the pronunciation is slightly less complicated, but it still has pitch accents, which are similar to tones! Cantonese and Mandarin are category 10 languages, as both the characters and the tonal pronunciation are category ten, and they have up to eight tones!
Vocabulary can be easy, because all share the same roots. But Japanese grammer can be hell, and Korean is even worse. It’s an alien concept to people that don’t speak it. Chinese grammer isn’t that bad compared to the other two.
the best way to learn is using textbooks that let you learn at your own pace, reading books in that language, watching movies in that language, and going to that country.
@@user-bv5bz2kz4t I agree, I speak Polish and sometimes it is difficult for me to I agree, I speak Polish and sometimes it is difficult for me to speak
It is often said that the Japanese language is difficult, but for us Japanese, learning Western languages is also extremely difficult. If you encounter a Japanese person who can speak Western languages, he or she has lived in the West for a long time or is very elite.
I'd love to learn Japanese, I'm someone who picks up things quickly when it comes to things I like (music ,movies ....etc) and I do pick up a lot when watching foreign movies like korean, italian and more but with Japanese, even tho I've been watching anime for so long now, and even though I know a lot of of words and expressions, I find it hard to form a sentence or to see patterns when it comes to how sentences are formed, on the contrary I've been familiar with korean series for not as long as Japanese but it's really easy for me to see the patterns and know how to form a sentence. Still I'm really determined to learn it.
Because they live in the US!! We learn English in schools, so we can make and read a sentence in english, but many Japanese people can't speak and catch words in a conversation. I guess it's because our education system. We don't have many opportunities to speak or hear English. Those opportunities have been increasing in recent years though.
@@blueierblue4499 I know Arabic. It has a lot of forms, but not as crazy as Navajo.. Just read up a bit of their grammar and you'll see grammar rules you've never even imagined.
@@Jay_HY How would you know Arabic grammar is harder than Navajo if you don't know any Navajo grammar? That's like saying person A is taller or shorter than person B despite never having seen person B.
Have you tried speaking it though? They've got tones and stuff that's really difficult to master. You might be able to read it, but writing and speaking is a whole other thing.
Icelandic and Gothic and Norse and Faroese are some of the easiest category 1 languages with very easy category 1 pronunciation and the word memorability / prettiness of the words from the easiest languages ever like English and Dutch and Norwegian, Hungarian is a mid category 2 language that also has easy pronunciation and very memorable words, and Finnish / Estonian / Latvian are category 2 languages as well that are just slightly harder to memorize than Hungarian etc, they are among the easiest languages with very light spelling that use normal letters (the Latin alphabet aka the easiest alphabet ever) and don’t belong on this list, they should be on easy languages lists, tho I guess it’s still good that they were at least included on a list, as they don’t get included often, tho they should be among the top recommendations on every language recommendation list as the Norse languages like Icelandic and Gothic and Norse etc are the most alpha languages ever created and are among the prettiest ever like English and Dutch and Norwegian etc, and Hungarian is also very pretty as most Hungarian words are very pretty and easy to memorize, as one naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster! 🇮🇸
Icelandic is actually a category 1 language, like every other Norse / Germanic language - it’s way easier than I thought it would be at first, even though when I first started learning it I thought it was category 2 due to the vowels with accents, but Icelandic words are way easier to pronounce and to spell than German and French and Spanish words which can be with random accents or with many consonant clusters, because in Norse languages the vowels with accents are in fact different sounds and not actual accents, so Icelandic is easier than German / French / Spanish which are also category 1, and Slovene is also category 1, and Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian are category 2 languages, so these languages should be on easy languages lists! By the way, things such as language difficulty and prettiness etc are very objective facts, and the language difficulty level is determined by the aspect / type of writing system / alphabet used (the Latin alphabet is the easiest and most practical alphabet ever created) and the prettiness / memorability level of most of the words (pretty and distinctive words are naturally easy to learn) and the level of organization and lightness and by how easy or hard the pronunciation is etc, and pretty languages aka languages with mostly pretty words are automatically easy to learn, while the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish are the easiest to learn, and, all Germanic languages and the Celtic languages and the true Latin languages are all easy languages! Polish and Czech are category 4 languages tho not among the hardest ever, Russian and other similar languages using the Cyrillic alphabet are category 5, Navajo is category 6 or 7, Vietnamese is category 7, Thai and Indian languages are category 8 languages, Arabic languages and Korean are all category 9 languages, Japanese and Chinese languages are all category 10 languages with the hardest writing systems, which are not actual alphabets, but characters, that also have the hardest pronunciation which has tones and pitch accents!
I am American learning Chinese. I have studied other languages, including classical and eastern languages, and Chinese has BY FAR the most simple grammar. It has been the easiest to study. I feel little are deterred by tones, and never look farther than that.
@@candycorntails as a Arabic native speaker I can say that 100% if you want to master Arabic as a foreigner it's hell because we have countless words and every country speaks differently a little bit but the main Arabic the we call "الفصحى" Is probably one of the biggest languages in the world when it comes to vocabulary and complexity mandrian Chinese is hard too
Icelandic is actually a category 1 language, like every other Norse / Germanic language - it’s way easier than I thought it would be at first, even though when I first started learning it I thought it was category 2 due to the vowels with accents, but Icelandic words are way easier to pronounce and to spell than German and French and Spanish words which can be with random accents or with many consonant clusters, because in Norse languages the vowels with accents are in fact different sounds and not actual accents, so Icelandic is easier than German / French / Spanish which are also category 1, and Slovene is also category 1, and Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian are category 2 languages, so these languages should be on easy languages lists! By the way, things such as language difficulty and prettiness etc are very objective facts, and the language difficulty level is determined by the aspect / type of writing system / alphabet used (the Latin alphabet is the easiest and most practical alphabet ever created) and the prettiness / memorability level of most of the words (pretty and distinctive words are naturally easy to learn) and the level of organization and lightness and by how easy or hard the pronunciation is etc, and pretty languages aka languages with mostly pretty words are automatically easy to learn, while the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish are the easiest to learn, and, all Germanic languages and the Celtic languages and the true Latin languages are all easy languages! Polish and Czech are category 4 languages tho not among the hardest ever, Russian and other similar languages using the Cyrillic alphabet are category 5, Navajo is category 6 or 7, Vietnamese is category 7, Thai and Indian languages are category 8 languages, Arabic languages and Korean are all category 9 languages, Japanese and Chinese languages are all category 10 languages with the hardest writing systems, which are not actual alphabets, but characters, that also have the hardest pronunciation which has tones and pitch accents!
Hungarian is tricky because it's agglutinative, even for us native Slavic speakers who know a thing or two about difficult language. :D Besides different grammar and syntax compared to Indo-European languages, one other thing that makes it additionally difficult is lack of similar stems to hold onto. There is no familiarity (well, except for mačka, suknja and some other words that were loaned from Hungarian into Croatian, but that's about it).
Na hallod, én ha magyar nyelvi oktatóvideót nézek itt a yt-on, 10 perc után rendszerint megfájdul a fejem. Ha külföldi lennék, meg se piszkálnám ezt a nyelvet!
I'm a native Hungarian teacher of English and German, I'd say anyone who can learn Hungarian as a foreign language deserves MASSIVE respect, as it's as difficult as it gets. The many nuanced rules, the vowel harmony, the conjugation, and of course the more advanced rules that even Hungarians tend to be unaware of (like the 1st, 2nd and 3rd mozgószabály) make the whole thing close to impossible to master. I have a relative that learnt Hungarian in his 20s, he still speaks with an accent and couldn't get the grammar down perfectly, but he's fluent. Respect for anyone like him lol
@@maeslor Apparently you are unaware of the high similarity between Japanese and Korean. Also, Japan, China, and Taiwan have kanji cultures that make it easy for them to learn each other's languages.
Music is the best way to learn a language for me. Learn the words phonetically, read a romanization of the lyrics to help perfect pronunciation, then hardest of all, learn the original script or the lyrics..I get it, not everyone learns this way but it’s a way that works for me!
As a chinese i think mandarin is quite hard but once you learn mandarin you have access to learn Japanese or Korean (mostly japanese due to its similar writing) i am currently learning mandarin and japanese and in my opinion the hardest goes to arabic, Tamil and Malayalam
@@user-ex9de4ip3u my grandmother watches Chinese tv shows based on pop music, then sometimes I hear them try to sing Cantonese because they want to try it out I can’t speak Cantonese but my mother taught me like some words or smth but then I am fluent listening to what they said lol
Whether a language seems easy or difficult depends on our mother tongue. If there are any elements in common with the foreign language we will learn, it will seem easy. That's why we shouldn't be absolute and say in general that there are difficult and easy languages
The hard and easy idiom depends of your cultural idiom the language of your heart ❤️💋 in fact, the subfamily of your idiom and the liguistical 🌲🌴🌲🌴 of your idiom all theses culturals contexts and limitations, says to you what it's easy level, medium level and hard level in practice. For each person the list changes about easy, medium and hard idioms on the world, today we have 8 billions list about easy, medium and hard idioms to learn on earth.
I speak english russian german, I learn Japanese and Hungarian now. And i can say Hungarian is more difficult than Japanese! But with dedication everything is possible!
I agree. Hungarian has a very difficult grammar. I'm a Pole, had been trying to learn for a couple of years but I'm still at a beginner level. Magyar nyelv nagyon nehéz! Polish is difficult too as it has also a difficult grammar although more similar to English and other Indo-European languages.
@@D000LSETNET Duolingo will definitely help you with multiple words, combining sentences, and memorizing word order. Memorize vowels and consonants first.
Where is indian languages like Hindi ,Malayalam, tamil, sanskrit etc.. any English people can't speak malayalam properly if he studied it for so many years
My moms grandma being from Iceland so I wanted to start actually trying to speak it and then sees it’s the 9th hardest (I’m also an idiot so that doesn’t help):
Sure, the 汉字 take some effort, but 汉语 also has some logic that other languages lack. Any language takes determination, but I find it easier (not easy!) than people claim it to be. Sure, as learning it is only a hobby for me (I like the cultural insight and the the prospect of using it when travelling in the future.) progress is not very fast. But that is something I can live with.
Yeah I’m arabic and the language for me is easy and it’s still hard even for me I’m arab and it’s hard bc of the letters like when I’m at śńñ ôłâ or 1 I must write sun or شمس but I was confused because I didn’t know of it’s a ص or a س at that time
The difficulty of Chinese I guess is the writing system (hanzi characters). The grammar and the logic of the language is quite simple. Hanzi has logic so if you are brave, dive into it and get used to it, it's a very enjoyable process. (My experience as a European)
@@cigaie2461 If you use Google Translate every single word เค้ก + ไทย will be translated to "cake" + "Thai" and เค้กไทย will be translated to "Thai cake", not Cake Thai. I think it is nothing special and confused what he tried to communicate with me. For Thai grammars, adjectives will always be appended a word we want to use such as "Chinese people" will be คนจีน, คน is a word and จีน is an adjective.
As a European who speaks Japanese for some reason, I can confirm that it's easier than korean. And I learned most of it from Nintendo Games like Earthbound
The hardest part about chinese is the written language. Grammar and sentence structure is a lot easier to learn compared to the agglutinative languages like japanese and korean. Japanese also has 3 written forms (including the chinese characters), so I would place it on the top of the list. Korean and japanese also have much more complicated politeness systems with multiple levels of formality. Korean writing is definitely the easiest to learn of these three though. But, in the end: the EASIEST language to learn is the language you WANT to learn, because it will let you stay motivated no matter what.
@@namenotfound8186 I'm not confident with speaking, because I get to practice it so rarely. And every time I've encountered an english speaking person here, they've had a really strong accent that was neither British nor American and I couldn't understand them very well.
@@pawelowi7528If you want to fully learn English whether that is British or American English, just take a vacation to the UK or US and you’ll pick up on all the slang and accent very quickly. Also if you go learn a fourth language such as French, German, Greek, or Latin it will be much easier. English shares many common words with those four languages and so learning one of them can help with English.
@@epicmatter3512 I have no trouble undestanding British or American English. The hardest accents for me to understand are from countries where English is not the primary language (Estonia for example). I've picked up a fair amount of slang by regularly talking to friends online, but it has always been over text, never in a voice chat.
As a Chinese who studying Korean, I can say that there are Chinese, Korean and Japanese have lots in common. Since most of their vocabularies are based on Hanzi. But my friends who speaks English, they feel difficult about the Eastern Asia language. But once you learned and use one of the three languages, you can control all of the three languages! It’s amazing
@@dianchris1457i am a Chinese who study Japanese. But i can't agree with you. although Those three have something in commons,but the differences especially grammar still exist a lot.for a guy who learn a one of these couldn't let him understand others .but it will help him in study other two.
@@LiyueHuman in fact there are many kanjis which made by japanese.such as 峠 畑 桜 歩 辻. japanese made them and they are collected in chinese dictionary by chinese.
Cantonese in the corner: I think the reason why Korean and Japanese are so hard to learn is because they use a different sentence structure compared to English. Tonal languages are definitely harder to learn for English speakers, though. Cantonese and Mandarin have quite similar sentence structures to English, but because of how complicated the tonal system is, people can end up saying something super offensive in, say, Cantonese, when they actually mean to say something normal.
I'm japanese . I think japanese is very hard . I have tow reasons .First. native is cannot perfect Japanese . Second,We must learn by heart a lot of kanji's.
I would definitely not put Mandarin at number one. I know some Japanese and a little bit of Chinese and Japanese is definitely harder. If it has to be a Chinese language then I'd say Hokkien was harder, I've heard it uses nonstandard characters and doesn't have a standard written form. (I don't know how true that is but it's something I've heard.)
mandarin writing system is one of the hardest if not the hardest in the world, especially for english speakers. Its fundmentally different as it uses logograph as it basis. It's what definied this tier list, really
Well good luck with understandingأفاستسقيناكموها Wich simply means Didn't we provide you two to drink with it? Like something linke that but i am not sure with it
@@alberteinstein2027 It depends on what languages you speak. For me, languages like Cantonese, Thai, Vietnamese, for example, are difficult. My mother tongue is Hungarian, so Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, English, German is easier. But it also depends on the person. I understand what your saying. Katakana, Hiragana writing ect. But the pronunciation not so difficult.
According to my calculation, the two language's to learn in was both hard and the first called arabic and old slovak. It was existing when humans were added.
Native English speaker here. I’ve seen your easiest languages list and hardest languages list for Eng speakers. I speak more of the languages on the hard list vs. the easy one 😅
I'm sure Japanese is the hardest ever. ⑴three types of characters ⑵several ways of 漢字 pronunciation ⑶polite forms 敬語 ⑷mischievous Japanese English words ⑸lots of trend words every year (slang among teenagers)
No.4 is Japanese gifts for west learners since one could know what it means by the pronunciation in katakana and No.5 is tricky but easy to look up on the Internet.
@@vincentandrew4544 Chinese is hard in the subtlety of meaning in expressions. Meanings or images compacted in short words and disparities in seemingly trivial differences could sometimes be astounding.
The reverse is also true. In my opinion as a Japanese, the reason why CJK people struggle to speak English well is that English is one of the most difficult languages for us.
I see your point, but they don’t have as strong of a command of the English language as Europeans, despite having been exposed to it from a young age, indicating that English is NOT as easy for them to learn.
Japanese isn’t all that hard though and I suck at learning languages😭 I think once I stopped asking too many questions and overthinking every little word, I got the hang of it and started to form my sentences. I personally think the trickiest part tho ig of learning Japanese (and Korean) are the formal/informal word usage.
Korean has grammatical similarity to Indian languages as well as alphabet. That could be the reason why it's not that hard for Indians and difficult for English speakers.
I think it depends on your native language. In Turkey, there are a lot of people who learn Korean and they say it is not hard. And even some people say "Korean is not hard as English. My Korean is better than my English" because Korean and Turkish are quite similar in grammar. I don't know your native language but as i know Korean and Tamil are close to each other as well.
The alphabet, Hangul, is very simple. The grammar seems like a nightmare though. From my pov it seems very similar to Japanese as a language, just with some slightly more complex grammar and a much more simple alphabet / character system.
I was born in korea and I moved into Japan when I was 15 and I moved in America when I was 17 so I know ENGLISH KOREAN AND JAPANESE I'm so happy to know these words 😊
As someone who is currently learning Arabic with no previous exposure to the language it is actually pretty easy. I think it all just depends on the teacher you get
For me knowing Persian is helpful, it's the same writing, lots of common vocabulary. Only difference is Arabic is semitic and Persian is Indo-European so the grammar is very dissimilar.
The language of whistles a very real thing and it works similar to a Chinese language tone is everything and so is volume pitch you make one wrong noise and you just cursed your best friend’s entire family including their dog, so this is just a stupid language in general have fun, trying to learn it, because almost no one knows it and also very few things are good at it like most speakers will get some sound wrong, and not to mention you would have to played at the perfect volume. Otherwise, you might be learning every cuss word in the dictionary just because that pitch is just oh so slightly to high or maybe the volume is too low. So good luck trying to learn that one.
Mandarin is the hardest because each letter have they're own meaning, but not only that they would also have they're own meaning if u speak it in a different tone, not to mention the actual alphabet is like hell to write.
The tonal part is not that hard. The tones are mostly easy to separate and if you hear a lot of that language, youll get used to it. Remembering the hanzi is the only hard part of the language. At least you can always type in pin yin if you know how it is pronounced
I am Korean. Hangeul is the easiest and simplest alphabet in the world to learn. However, Korean is a really difficult language. The reason why Hangeul is easy to learn is because it is as simple as ㄱ,ㄴ,ㄷ,ㄹ,ㅁ,ㅂ.... However, unlike English, Korean combines consonants and vowels. And another reason why Korean is difficult is that there are many words that express something that have the same meaning in Korean.
@@jasmine6170 When I said that, I mean grammar. This is because English is in the order of subject, verb, and object, but Korean is in order of subject, object, and verb. In addition, there are 8 parts of speech in English and 9 parts of speech in Korean. So it means that studying grammar, not memorizing words, is difficult.
@@user-yw9xg9tv1t Is it possible to learn Korean within 3 months? I just want to understand conversations in Korean, don't want to be able to speak fluently!
It's really easy to learn a language if you just grow up with it. My parents came from Japan right after I was born. They didn't know the language themselves so they decided to make me learn it. I grew up from watching japenese TV shows, Cartoons (mostly anime without subtitles) and even listening to japenese Poems, stories, music. I am also pretty experienced with the culture too. Now I am proud to say that I am really fluent in the language. I will be moving to Japan next month and I am really excited to visit the country.
I have grandparents who speak it, I’m trying to relearn it so I can speak to them, their English isn’t very good. The damn language took me almost a year to get to an intermediate level.
This applies for every language except arabic. Im a native arabic speaker and its still very hard for me to understand the context of texts and there are some very complicated arabic grammar that not even one who grew up with it can surely understand it
@@tatordgoat4349 from grade 1-5, I learned it through Japanese school, I’m relearning it using a notebook. I learn the alphabet by searching it up, I get the grammar from a pdf or website, and I get the vocabulary from Google Translate, I search the word up for proof.
As someone of Basque ethnicity, I think Basque is the hardest on this list. I only know basic words such as hello and mom. Not only does Basque have such complex case declension, meaning a single word can take up over 200 forms, there are also very few resources to learn this language. Compared to most language isolates like Korean and Japanese, Basque has little media out there to help learn. I've wanted to learn the language that my family was forbidden to speak for decades but it's been so hard to find a course. I speak Spanish and English fluently and natively and I've been learning Japanese for 3 years, I think it comes down to the individual but also how many resources and media there are for the language.
@@vpvnsf The same thing happened in France with Basque, Britton, Créole and other regional languages in the early 20th century to force people to learn "proper" French. Now a lot of schools create programs to bring back theses languages and make sure they Don't get lost.
as a native english (american) speaker that also speaks español mexicano, Deutsch, ខ្មែរ, ไทย.... ima say hardest to understand is a tie between *australian and scottish english* lol . in all seriousness, czech and vietnamese were hardest for me and I quit
I think Japanese is hard because you have to learn kanji (which is borrowed from Chinese), but there really aren't any difficult sounds in it, unlike in Mandarin, for instance, which I find super hard. I've been studying Japanese for almost a year now and love it.
As an Arabic girl , I’m totally agree with this vid , Arabic so difficult we suffering to learn the grammars but at the same time we love our language so much ❤.
1. English (speak/read/write) ✅ 2. Hindi ( speak/ read/write) ✅ 3. Malayalam (speak/read/write)✅ 4. Arabic ( read/write) ✅ 5. Korean (read/write / speak) NOT FLUENT BUT STILL GUD✅ 6. Tamil ( understand very well ,speak a little 👌 7. Urdu ( speak✅ understand ✅ HI GUYS THESE ARE THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGES I KNOW ❤😊
Hello, I'm Korean. Your video is great. And, despite the hardest ranking, I'm glad about that Korean is mentioned. Korean has very very many way to express something It's not necessary thing in Korean. However, without this, it's impossible to express unique,various emotions and feeling of Korean.
as someone who is learning 6 of the languages from this list, my opinion is chinese actually isn't as hard as it seems, japanese also doesn't seem to complicated, korean seems pretty simple so far, arabic not been too bad so far, hungarian is actually not very difficult at all for me, yes there is a lot to learn but it all makes sense, and polish I found to maybe actually be the hardest out of all of these
Korean is not hard language for english speaker its can be hard but if you have kind of turkish grammar you can learn in a year turkish is more harder than korean and you need to add georgian language too its hard language
Out of all the world's 7000+ plus languages, most on this list are probably in the top 100 easiest for English speakers. The actual hardest ones you have not heard of, and that's why they're so hard.
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*goes to duolingo aggressively*
I am also using that software
Icelandic and Gothic and Norse and Faroese are some of the easiest category 1 languages with very easy category 1 pronunciation and the word memorability / prettiness of the words from the easiest languages ever like English and Dutch and Norwegian, Hungarian is a mid category 2 language that also has easy pronunciation and very memorable words, and Finnish / Estonian / Latvian are category 2 languages as well that are just slightly harder to memorize than Hungarian etc, they are among the easiest languages with very light spelling that use normal letters (the Latin alphabet aka the easiest alphabet ever) and don’t belong on this list, they should be on easy languages lists, tho I guess it’s still good that they were at least included on a list, as they don’t get included often, tho they should be among the top recommendations on every language recommendation list as the Norse languages like Icelandic and Norse etc are the most alpha languages ever created and are among the prettiest ever like English and Dutch etc, and Hungarian is also very pretty as most Hungarian words are very pretty and easy to memorize, as one naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster! 🇮🇸
Navajo is a category 6 language, harder than Russian which is category 5 with different alphabet, and harder than category 4 languages such as Polish and Czech with very heavy spelling that isn’t easy to read, which are definitely not easier than Icelandic which has a way lighter spelling that is lighter than the spelling of French or German etc and is very easy to read, so it isn’t easier than Hungarian - I am learning Icelandic and Norse and all other Germanic languages and Hungarian and Finnish etc, and they are all very easy to read / learn, náda ‘hard’ about them, tho any language is going to seem ‘hard’ to a beginner, I guess, but, the real hard languages that are objectively hard are category 6 to category 10 languages with odd scripts and characters and tones etc that are impossible to read / memorize / pronounce etc!
By the way, my current levels are...
- upper intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / German
- writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish
- upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian
- intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian / Welsh
- beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene
- total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / Urkers / Hunsrik / East Norse / Ruhrpöttisch / Alemannic / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Pälzische Deutsch / Austrian German / Waddisch / Palatine German / Westföälsk Sassisk / Austro-Bavarian / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / Sognamål / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Yiddish / Afrikaans / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc)
(I highly recommend learning Dutch / Icelandic + Norse + Faroese / Norwegian as they are so magical, as pretty / refined / poetic as English - all other Germanic and the other pretty languages on my list are also gorgeous, so they are all a great option!)
The correct rankings are...
Icelandic / Norse / Faroese and Slovene are category 1 languages, and Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian are category 2 languages - they should be on easy languages list, they don’t belong on this list, as do all other Germanic languages!
Irish and Scottish Gaelic are category 3 languages, still pretty easy, compared to most others!
Czech and Polish are category 4 languages with very heavy spelling!
Russian is a category 5 language using a different alphabet!
Navajo is a category 6 or category 7 language, totally not easier than Hungarian lol!
Thai and Vietnamese are category 8 and 7 languages, extremely difficult to learn / memorize / understand or to differentiate between such short words that sound exactly the same, same as Chinese and Korean words!
Arabic and Korean are category 9 languages, impossible to read and to understand short words that sound exactly the same!
Japanese is category 9.5 or 10, as its writing is as hard as that of Chinese, honestly, only the pronunciation is slightly less complicated, but it still has pitch accents, which are similar to tones!
Cantonese and Mandarin are category 10 languages, as both the characters and the tonal pronunciation are category ten, and they have up to eight tones!
As an English speaker, Arabic looks like Minecraft enchantment table 💀
Edit: CAN Y'ALL CHILL ITS JUST AN OPINION 😭
I think Hebrew is much more like enchantment table than Arabic
@@Raff31pretty much the enchantment table is from another game i think it was the galactical alphabet
Lol i know a bit of arabic
Bruh I learn Arabic ngl it's ez for me
It is semetic
As an arabic, I don’t even know how to speak my own language 😭-
What kind of Arabic do you speak
@@The_Triple_Brothersarabic!.
@@Broke_af. what kind of Arabic
@@The_Triple_Brothersi understand darija but im learning fosha right now 😊
@@daroldcarold3443 what country Arabic
bro and I really thought I could learn Korean, Japanese and Mandarin at the same time using duolingo💀
Try Pimsleur! You can do all three languages at once, and you'll learn more in one day than three months on duolingo
Vocabulary can be easy, because all share the same roots.
But Japanese grammer can be hell, and Korean is even worse. It’s an alien concept to people that don’t speak it. Chinese grammer isn’t that bad compared to the other two.
さすがドウオリンゴでだけ出来ない、でも他の学び方使えばできる!
the best way to learn is using textbooks that let you learn at your own pace, reading books in that language, watching movies in that language, and going to that country.
Ooooh alr tysm
Russian language has left the chat:
Да, водка это хорошо, но никто это не ценит
It's similar to polish, but polish is a little bit harder
@@user-bv5bz2kz4t I agree, I speak Polish and sometimes it is difficult for me to I agree, I speak Polish and sometimes it is difficult for me to speak
It isn't that extremely hard in general, especially for the very similar vocabulary.
@@Sara-fd3dd ыюфжзйчб, yea
It is often said that the Japanese language is difficult, but for us Japanese, learning Western languages is also extremely difficult.
If you encounter a Japanese person who can speak Western languages, he or she has lived in the West for a long time or is very elite.
I know a lot of Japanese people who speak English that never left Japan.
I'd love to learn Japanese, I'm someone who picks up things quickly when it comes to things I like (music ,movies ....etc) and I do pick up a lot when watching foreign movies like korean, italian and more but with Japanese, even tho I've been watching anime for so long now, and even though I know a lot of of words and expressions, I find it hard to form a sentence or to see patterns when it comes to how sentences are formed, on the contrary I've been familiar with korean series for not as long as Japanese but it's really easy for me to see the patterns and know how to form a sentence.
Still I'm really determined to learn it.
there are many japanese people who spesk fluent english with an american accent here in the US.
Because they live in the US!!
We learn English in schools, so we can make and read a sentence in english, but many Japanese people can't speak and catch words in a conversation. I guess it's because our education system. We don't have many opportunities to speak or hear English. Those opportunities have been increasing in recent years though.
You're Japanese but you speak fluent English konosaki
Navajo at 8 is wild. They have like 70 different versions of the same word lol
Arabic has the most words if thats the standard
@@blueierblue4499 I know Arabic. It has a lot of forms, but not as crazy as Navajo.. Just read up a bit of their grammar and you'll see grammar rules you've never even imagined.
@@senantiasa arabic still has the hardest grammar with the hardest sounds to pronounce and over 12M words with no written vowels most of the time
@@Jay_HY How would you know Arabic grammar is harder than Navajo if you don't know any Navajo grammar? That's like saying person A is taller or shorter than person B despite never having seen person B.
@@senantiasa cuz it is. why do you think navajo's grammar is harder?
As a american I learned Chinese it is not hard it is pictures you need to remember
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Have you tried speaking it though? They've got tones and stuff that's really difficult to master. You might be able to read it, but writing and speaking is a whole other thing.
wow American says "a american"
Bro Doesn't have any ear💀💀💀💀
You're right bro😂, I hadn't realized 🤣
😂😂
Ears*
🤣🤣🤣🤣 *insert goofy laughing*
Icelandic and Gothic and Norse and Faroese are some of the easiest category 1 languages with very easy category 1 pronunciation and the word memorability / prettiness of the words from the easiest languages ever like English and Dutch and Norwegian, Hungarian is a mid category 2 language that also has easy pronunciation and very memorable words, and Finnish / Estonian / Latvian are category 2 languages as well that are just slightly harder to memorize than Hungarian etc, they are among the easiest languages with very light spelling that use normal letters (the Latin alphabet aka the easiest alphabet ever) and don’t belong on this list, they should be on easy languages lists, tho I guess it’s still good that they were at least included on a list, as they don’t get included often, tho they should be among the top recommendations on every language recommendation list as the Norse languages like Icelandic and Gothic and Norse etc are the most alpha languages ever created and are among the prettiest ever like English and Dutch and Norwegian etc, and Hungarian is also very pretty as most Hungarian words are very pretty and easy to memorize, as one naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster! 🇮🇸
Duolingo be like :🗿
HELP HOW DOES IT HAVE A NECK
True
duolingo is good for vocabulary, but it teaches no grammar or conjugation or anything
Duolingo is dogshit, if you really wanna learn a new language
Icelandic is actually a category 1 language, like every other Norse / Germanic language - it’s way easier than I thought it would be at first, even though when I first started learning it I thought it was category 2 due to the vowels with accents, but Icelandic words are way easier to pronounce and to spell than German and French and Spanish words which can be with random accents or with many consonant clusters, because in Norse languages the vowels with accents are in fact different sounds and not actual accents, so Icelandic is easier than German / French / Spanish which are also category 1, and Slovene is also category 1, and Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian are category 2 languages, so these languages should be on easy languages lists!
By the way, things such as language difficulty and prettiness etc are very objective facts, and the language difficulty level is determined by the aspect / type of writing system / alphabet used (the Latin alphabet is the easiest and most practical alphabet ever created) and the prettiness / memorability level of most of the words (pretty and distinctive words are naturally easy to learn) and the level of organization and lightness and by how easy or hard the pronunciation is etc, and pretty languages aka languages with mostly pretty words are automatically easy to learn, while the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish are the easiest to learn, and, all Germanic languages and the Celtic languages and the true Latin languages are all easy languages!
Polish and Czech are category 4 languages tho not among the hardest ever, Russian and other similar languages using the Cyrillic alphabet are category 5, Navajo is category 6 or 7, Vietnamese is category 7, Thai and Indian languages are category 8 languages, Arabic languages and Korean are all category 9 languages, Japanese and Chinese languages are all category 10 languages with the hardest writing systems, which are not actual alphabets, but characters, that also have the hardest pronunciation which has tones and pitch accents!
As a Taiwanese(Traditional Chinese), Mandarin has a simple grammar system, which built on its complex characters.
I am American learning Chinese. I have studied other languages, including classical and eastern languages, and Chinese has BY FAR the most simple grammar. It has been the easiest to study. I feel little are deterred by tones, and never look farther than that.
你好
我愛台湾🇹🇼❤
Simplify Mandarin is confusing, I don't like PingYing which makes no sense
As a Chinese that can speak a bit of Mandarin why was the first thing that came to my mind when u said “Mandarin” was “yummy”😭😭😭
Me realizing my language is harder then Japanese 👁👄👁
Same 👽
Yeah Arabic is way harder than Japanese
Abric is so hard
@@candycorntails as a Arabic native speaker I can say that 100% if you want to master Arabic as a foreigner it's hell because we have countless words and every country speaks differently a little bit but the main Arabic the we call "الفصحى"
Is probably one of the biggest languages in the world when it comes to vocabulary and complexity mandrian Chinese is hard too
Arabic has hardest pronunciation.
As a Japanese… it is hard to even learn Japanese myself
Hiragana and katakana are pretty easy but kanji....
bruhhhhhhhh i hate my life since I started
日本人でも難しいよ。
Yeah we japanese can’t even write and read 100% of our own alphabets lmao
Japanese and Turkish are similar
İki-maşta (Japanese)
Git- mişti (Turkish)
Polish looks like someone smashed their keyboard: Chrząszcz, (this means beetle) Jędrzejczyk, (a polish name) Książka the name for book)
I took a couple of Polish lessons and my mouth hurt. Too many consonants, not enough vowels.
@@scvcebc except Polish has more vowels than English
@@JaJebie69 Too many *consecutive* consonants, perhaps
Wyrewolwerowany
Icelandic is actually a category 1 language, like every other Norse / Germanic language - it’s way easier than I thought it would be at first, even though when I first started learning it I thought it was category 2 due to the vowels with accents, but Icelandic words are way easier to pronounce and to spell than German and French and Spanish words which can be with random accents or with many consonant clusters, because in Norse languages the vowels with accents are in fact different sounds and not actual accents, so Icelandic is easier than German / French / Spanish which are also category 1, and Slovene is also category 1, and Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian are category 2 languages, so these languages should be on easy languages lists!
By the way, things such as language difficulty and prettiness etc are very objective facts, and the language difficulty level is determined by the aspect / type of writing system / alphabet used (the Latin alphabet is the easiest and most practical alphabet ever created) and the prettiness / memorability level of most of the words (pretty and distinctive words are naturally easy to learn) and the level of organization and lightness and by how easy or hard the pronunciation is etc, and pretty languages aka languages with mostly pretty words are automatically easy to learn, while the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish are the easiest to learn, and, all Germanic languages and the Celtic languages and the true Latin languages are all easy languages!
Polish and Czech are category 4 languages tho not among the hardest ever, Russian and other similar languages using the Cyrillic alphabet are category 5, Navajo is category 6 or 7, Vietnamese is category 7, Thai and Indian languages are category 8 languages, Arabic languages and Korean are all category 9 languages, Japanese and Chinese languages are all category 10 languages with the hardest writing systems, which are not actual alphabets, but characters, that also have the hardest pronunciation which has tones and pitch accents!
To everybody learning any of these: i believe in you you can do it
(Im also learning one of them and its really hard)
ما هى اللغه التى تتعلمها ؟
@@Thanawia_24 I have no idea what that means but I have Google translate
I'm learning Japanese
As a Hungarian native speaker I really love that our language is almost always portrayed as some mind-breaking monster.
Hungarian is tricky because it's agglutinative, even for us native Slavic speakers who know a thing or two about difficult language. :D
Besides different grammar and syntax compared to Indo-European languages, one other thing that makes it additionally difficult is lack of similar stems to hold onto. There is no familiarity (well, except for mačka, suknja and some other words that were loaned from Hungarian into Croatian, but that's about it).
Na hallod, én ha magyar nyelvi oktatóvideót nézek itt a yt-on, 10 perc után rendszerint megfájdul a fejem. Ha külföldi lennék, meg se piszkálnám ezt a nyelvet!
Hungarian is actually related to finnish
As someone who’s trying to learn it: trust me, it is (it’s also fucking beautiful though)
I'm a native Hungarian teacher of English and German, I'd say anyone who can learn Hungarian as a foreign language deserves MASSIVE respect, as it's as difficult as it gets. The many nuanced rules, the vowel harmony, the conjugation, and of course the more advanced rules that even Hungarians tend to be unaware of (like the 1st, 2nd and 3rd mozgószabály) make the whole thing close to impossible to master. I have a relative that learnt Hungarian in his 20s, he still speaks with an accent and couldn't get the grammar down perfectly, but he's fluent. Respect for anyone like him lol
The difficulty of language learning depends on the similarity between the learner's native language and the language being studied.
Yes, that's why "isolated" languages appear here: Japanese and Basque have no living relatives.
@@maeslor Apparently you are unaware of the high similarity between Japanese and Korean. Also, Japan, China, and Taiwan have kanji cultures that make it easy for them to learn each other's languages.
To be fair, he did say "for English speakers".
@@maeslorFinnish is not isolated? But hungarian is also here, so finno-ugric is hard.
@@Heuroya Languages can be somewhat similar without having close relatives. Especially when it comes to vocabulary.
Music is the best way to learn a language for me. Learn the words phonetically, read a romanization of the lyrics to help perfect pronunciation, then hardest of all, learn the original script or the lyrics..I get it, not everyone learns this way but it’s a way that works for me!
Sanskrit Left The Chat-☠️
Ignorant people what i cam say
as a girl with a Chinese mom , I can comfirm that Chinese isn’t hard , the parents are hard 😊
lol
I agree, I have to play 1 hour of piano and viola
My Chinese name is also very hard, my teacher said on a test, people are on the first problem and I’m still writing my name. 喻瀚熙 is my Chinese name
@@angelachelsey9984convert your name in english please😢😢😢
@@Teacher-501 the 喻 means simile, the 瀚 means vast, and the 熙 was and emperor’s name. According to my mom
As a chinese i think mandarin is quite hard but once you learn mandarin you have access to learn Japanese or Korean (mostly japanese due to its similar writing) i am currently learning mandarin and japanese and in my opinion the hardest goes to arabic, Tamil and Malayalam
You don't think mandarin is the hardest because you are a native Chinese, for foreigners I heard it takes up to 7 years to be fluent in mandarin
I think cantonese is hardest
@@Virxls well as a chinese persepctive. Because cantonese is also spoken in China
@@user-ex9de4ip3u yess
@@user-ex9de4ip3u my grandmother watches Chinese tv shows based on pop music, then sometimes I hear them try to sing Cantonese because they want to try it out
I can’t speak Cantonese but my mother taught me like some words or smth but then I am fluent listening to what they said lol
Whether a language seems easy or difficult depends on our mother tongue. If there are any elements in common with the foreign language we will learn, it will seem easy. That's why we shouldn't be absolute and say in general that there are difficult and easy languages
You're right, exactly.
The hard and easy idiom depends of your cultural idiom the language of your heart ❤️💋 in fact, the subfamily of your idiom and the liguistical 🌲🌴🌲🌴 of your idiom all theses culturals contexts and limitations, says to you what it's easy level, medium level and hard level in practice.
For each person the list changes about easy, medium and hard idioms on the world, today we have 8 billions list about easy, medium and hard idioms to learn on earth.
I speak english russian german, I learn Japanese and Hungarian now. And i can say Hungarian is more difficult than Japanese! But with dedication everything is possible!
As a hungarian: I can confirm that the language is difficult even for native speakers
Mijért?
it said Hungarian has asian origin. basically, all asian languages are hard to learn 😄
@@MrBdoleagle hungarian is a uralic language i think
I agree. Hungarian has a very difficult grammar. I'm a Pole, had been trying to learn for a couple of years but I'm still at a beginner level. Magyar nyelv nagyon nehéz!
Polish is difficult too as it has also a difficult grammar although more similar to English and other Indo-European languages.
@@erykbaradziej3639 yeah, im polish as well and we have some pretty crazy words
Korean was the easiest language I’ve learned in my life 😂
I want to learn it but there is alfhabet
Korean characters are extremely easy to learn, but grammar is too difficult😢
You can literally learn it in 5 minutes. There's a RUclips video on it.
yes! I’ve learnt multiple languages and Korean was super easy.
I want to learn korean from scratch. Please tell how can i learn it??
I am a Pakistani girl alhamdulilah but I have been able to learn Arabic and it only took me a year
انت ممتازة حقا❤.
أهنئك على ذلك
Could you be recommend me the sources and materials u used for learning arabic
As an korean, English is much more difficult language than Japanese
맞아요 일본어는 한국어랑 어순이 같거든요. 영어는 중국어랑 같지만 중국어는 외울 게 넘 많음..ㅠㅠㅠ
@@dUnney101 i want to study korean but idk where to start..do u suggest dualingo to self study?
좋은 시도예요! 저도 duolingo로 영어를 배운 적이 있거든요.
No it's not bro
@@D000LSETNET Duolingo will definitely help you with multiple words, combining sentences, and memorizing word order. Memorize vowels and consonants first.
Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Arabic are great languages
As a hungarian, I can agree
Wait so you say my language is great???
@@ItssJustVivi Since it is a complex language and is one of the few non-Indo-European languages in Europe
@@LeroyUrocyon Ohh ok
@@ItssJustVivi Ty!
Where is indian languages like Hindi ,Malayalam, tamil, sanskrit etc.. any English people can't speak malayalam properly if he studied it for so many years
He don't even know about Local Indian Languages buddy, but yeah he should mention Hindi as it is a Known Language and It is Hard AF to Learn
जानें कि क्या आप वास्तव में हिंदी भाषा सीखना बहुत आसान है जैसा कि आप देख सकते हैं
ஹிந்தியை விட தமிழ் மிகவும் எளிதானது, அதை புரிந்துகொள்வது சற்று கடினம், ஏனென்றால் முன்னும் பின்னும் இடையில் உள்ள வார்த்தையை மாற்றலாம்
Kannada
@@nxp2619 but speaking malayalam with proper way is almost not possible for people who don't know it
I am American. I can speak Arabic fluently, because my friend taught me and I taught her how to speak Farsi.
Then I dnt think u are American, maybe in passport lol u are Iranian by roots lol
@@georgewin7243
and so you don't, only if you are a native american (amerindian)
My moms grandma being from Iceland so I wanted to start actually trying to speak it and then sees it’s the 9th hardest (I’m also an idiot so that doesn’t help):
indian people getting ready to type the 478th comment about malayalam
Malayali spotted
fr they cant stop blabbering about their opinion
They are not Indians but Malayalis
me who is a native chinese and still can’t speak chinese properly after 14 years🗿
I'm Arabic. Now I will study Chinese in college iam scared because is hardest language 😢
@@TalktomeNice-vx8ymit is easy as Chinese but hard for other people
@@jinnie345I don't think Chinese is easy for Chinese, Chinese have to spend 6 years in elementary school, only to learn how to write and read.
Sure, the 汉字 take some effort, but 汉语 also has some logic that other languages lack. Any language takes determination, but I find it easier (not easy!) than people claim it to be. Sure, as learning it is only a hobby for me (I like the cultural insight and the the prospect of using it when travelling in the future.) progress is not very fast. But that is something I can live with.
@@user-db4zu6xk3qso as arabic,6 yrs in elementary,3 yrs in middle,3 yrs in highschool,and college depends.
I’m fluent in Finnish so I find it very easy and when I saw this I was like 😟
Have you heard about Farsi dude? ⚡️
Arabic consists of 12 million words
Yeah I’m arabic and the language for me is easy and it’s still hard even for me I’m arab and it’s hard bc of the letters like when I’m at śńñ ôłâ or 1 I must write sun or شمس but I was confused because I didn’t know of it’s a ص or a س at that time
@@Epic-tv6lp انا عربي أيضاً .
من أي البلاد العربية أنت ؟
لكنتّك الإنجليزية توحي بأنك إنجليزي.
Actually it's 28 letters and it's not that hard
@@Epic-tv6lp Its written with س😅
@@Epic-tv6lp But u said ur Arabian why do u have this icon ? Do u know what does it mean!?
Cantonese: Hello?
Korean: I am one of the most sophisticated language, why not the easiest?
my godfather has a similar name lol Wilson Woo
Hungary: hahaha 😂😂😂
@Kim 😐
@Kim soka
Korean has an extremely easy writing system, but it does have some difficult things like particles (I'm learning Korean).
Mandarin chinese: 如果您看到此評論喜歡它
The difficulty of Chinese I guess is the writing system (hanzi characters). The grammar and the logic of the language is quite simple. Hanzi has logic so if you are brave, dive into it and get used to it, it's a very enjoyable process. (My experience as a European)
I think Navajo is the hardest based of there little information online, there’s tones, object shape classes…
Navajo is weapon.
Still a weapon!
You can try learning Thai.
I think you may cry.
เค้กไทย
@@Sry996 What does it mean?
@@l2evivel2 its mean ‘cake thai’
@@cigaie2461 If you use Google Translate every single word เค้ก + ไทย will be translated to "cake" + "Thai"
and เค้กไทย will be translated to "Thai cake", not Cake Thai. I think it is nothing special and confused what he tried to communicate with me. For Thai grammars, adjectives will always be appended a word we want to use such as "Chinese people" will be คนจีน, คน is a word and จีน is an adjective.
@@l2evivel2 oh
As a European who speaks Japanese for some reason, I can confirm that it's easier than korean. And I learned most of it from Nintendo Games like Earthbound
The hardest part about chinese is the written language. Grammar and sentence structure is a lot easier to learn compared to the agglutinative languages like japanese and korean.
Japanese also has 3 written forms (including the chinese characters), so I would place it on the top of the list.
Korean and japanese also have much more complicated politeness systems with multiple levels of formality.
Korean writing is definitely the easiest to learn of these three though.
But, in the end: the EASIEST language to learn is the language you WANT to learn, because it will let you stay motivated no matter what.
Malayalam laughing in a corner 😂😂😂
Lol that’s what I was thinking I’m half mallu and Tamil but mainly Tamil
Why no one is adding malayalam!!!! Malayalam needs more support! Lol
Facts
malayalam is underappreciated 😭
@@looking_for_titan in my opinion Malayalam is the harder version of Tamil
Native Finnish speaker here, almost fluent in English and been learning Japanese for a bit over a year now!
Just curious, what is the thing holding you down from being fluent in English?
@@namenotfound8186 I'm not confident with speaking, because I get to practice it so rarely. And every time I've encountered an english speaking person here, they've had a really strong accent that was neither British nor American and I couldn't understand them very well.
@@pawelowi7528If you want to fully learn English whether that is British or American English, just take a vacation to the UK or US and you’ll pick up on all the slang and accent very quickly. Also if you go learn a fourth language such as French, German, Greek, or Latin it will be much easier. English shares many common words with those four languages and so learning one of them can help with English.
@@epicmatter3512 I have no trouble undestanding British or American English. The hardest accents for me to understand are from countries where English is not the primary language (Estonia for example). I've picked up a fair amount of slang by regularly talking to friends online, but it has always been over text, never in a voice chat.
I know Finnish too: Yolopuki valio
According to my calculation², the easiest language was english and british. They were used to be in one but now in split pieces as a language.
I'm studying Japanese and in my opinion the grammar is much more straightforward than English but the kanji makes it so much harder ;-;
As a Chinese who studying Korean, I can say that there are Chinese, Korean and Japanese have lots in common. Since most of their vocabularies are based on Hanzi. But my friends who speaks English, they feel difficult about the Eastern Asia language. But once you learned and use one of the three languages, you can control all of the three languages! It’s amazing
@@dianchris1457i am a Chinese who study Japanese. But i can't agree with you. although Those three have something in commons,but the differences especially grammar still exist a lot.for a guy who learn a one of these couldn't let him understand others .but it will help him in study other two.
Kanji literally is just Chinese characters, if you learn Chinese Mandarin, kanji would be too easy. As it’s the original form and written form.
@@LiyueHuman in fact there are many kanjis which made by japanese.such as 峠 畑 桜 歩 辻. japanese made them and they are collected in chinese dictionary by chinese.
English acvonodates better with Latin grammar as it is 65%Latin and Greek
Cantonese in the corner:
I think the reason why Korean and Japanese are so hard to learn is because they use a different sentence structure compared to English. Tonal languages are definitely harder to learn for English speakers, though. Cantonese and Mandarin have quite similar sentence structures to English, but because of how complicated the tonal system is, people can end up saying something super offensive in, say, Cantonese, when they actually mean to say something normal.
But as a Bengali it's quite easy since they are both similar
For English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portoguese, Russian etc.etc. speakers.
I'm japanese . I think japanese is very hard . I have tow reasons .First. native is cannot perfect Japanese . Second,We must learn by heart a lot of kanji's.
Yes you are so right I am an Cantonese too
كيف تكون اللغة العربية صعبة؟ اللغة الإنجليزية صعبة للغاية يا أخي
I would definitely not put Mandarin at number one. I know some Japanese and a little bit of Chinese and Japanese is definitely harder. If it has to be a Chinese language then I'd say Hokkien was harder, I've heard it uses nonstandard characters and doesn't have a standard written form. (I don't know how true that is but it's something I've heard.)
mandarin writing system is one of the hardest if not the hardest in the world, especially for english speakers. Its fundmentally different as it uses logograph as it basis. It's what definied this tier list, really
In 9 years after learning Arabic I still can’t read to good💀
Edit: me Never realized that I had 180 likes
edit: Mom im less-famous
Well good luck with understandingأفاستسقيناكموها
Wich simply means Didn't we provide you two to drink with it? Like something linke that but i am not sure with it
السلام عليكم حبيبي شلونك شخبارك شكو ماكو
تتعلم شوي شوي هههه ماعتقد حتفتهم شي مني لأني عراقية حتى غوغل محيساعدك 😂
@@mashroom2927 😂😂😂
@@mashroom2927ههههههه
@@Mohamed.Atabrour انت من وين لأن كلشي مفتهمت 😭
Cantonese is much harder than Mandarin
It's true
@@alberteinstein2027 It depends on what languages you speak. For me, languages like Cantonese, Thai, Vietnamese, for example, are difficult. My mother tongue is Hungarian, so Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, English, German is easier. But it also depends on the person. I understand what your saying. Katakana, Hiragana writing ect. But the pronunciation not so difficult.
@@alberteinstein2027 funny joke
@@alberteinstein2027 mandarin has 50,000 characters
@@alberteinstein2027 no mandarin is way harder than Japanese
According to my calculation, the two language's to learn in was both hard and the first called arabic and old slovak. It was existing when humans were added.
Native English speaker here. I’ve seen your easiest languages list and hardest languages list for Eng speakers. I speak more of the languages on the hard list vs. the easy one 😅
I'm sure Japanese is the hardest ever.
⑴three types of characters
⑵several ways of 漢字 pronunciation
⑶polite forms 敬語
⑷mischievous Japanese English words
⑸lots of trend words every year (slang among teenagers)
Chinese mandarin is even harder for all that reason
for me as a Pole, Japanese is not super difficult because we have a lot of consonants so pronunciation is also not difficult
No.4 is Japanese gifts for west learners since one could know what it means by the pronunciation in katakana and No.5 is tricky but easy to look up on the Internet.
@@vincentandrew4544 Chinese is hard in the subtlety of meaning in expressions. Meanings or images compacted in short words and disparities in seemingly trivial differences could sometimes be astounding.
Japanese Kanji has more than one reading. and sometime is inconsistent. depend on the words.
I am from karnataka I know tamil, kannada, english, telugu, and hindi
But Malyalam is the toughest 😅
yea lol my friends are malayali and i know how hard malayali is. i am bengali btw.
are there niggas too?
Malayali pwoli aahda mwone😁
Not that much hard ... Mandarin, Korean even Cantonese are way tougher than malayalam... I am a Malaysian tamil , I know that
Dude did research from Wikipedia 😂
I already know spanish english and french😂
English : "Please wait a minute"
Germany : "Bitte warte eine Minute"
France : "s'il vous plait, attendez une minute"
Japan : "ちょっと待ってください"
Russia : "пожалуйста, подождите минуту"
Mandarin : "请等一分钟"
Arabic : "من فضلك انتظر دقيقة"
Korean : "조금만 기다려주세요"
.
JAVANESE : "sek"
😅🤣
Jawa susahnya bagian krama, sama krama inggil, udah kaya beda bahasa
In Japanese
「少々お待ちください」
「ちょっと待っててもらえるかい？」
「ちょっと待て」
「ちょっと待ってろ」
「ちょっと待ってくれ」
「ちょっと待っててくれ」
「ちょっと待っていなさい」
「ちょっと待ちなさい」
「少しの間待ってろ」
etc…
indo kah maz?
HAHAHAH OKE
But Chinese actually says“稍等一下”the most.'cause it's more polite
The reverse is also true. In my opinion as a Japanese, the reason why CJK people struggle to speak English well is that English is one of the most difficult languages for us.
😄 good one
In fact, English is a fairly easy foreign language for Chinese and Koreans. Because they've been exposed a lot since they were young.
I see your point, but they don’t have as strong of a command of the English language as Europeans, despite having been exposed to it from a young age, indicating that English is NOT as easy for them to learn.
as someone who grew up speaking english my entire life, without any other languages, i just started learning japanese, and it's easy
Japanese isn’t all that hard though and I suck at learning languages😭 I think once I stopped asking too many questions and overthinking every little word, I got the hang of it and started to form my sentences. I personally think the trickiest part tho ig of learning Japanese (and Korean) are the formal/informal word usage.
Here's me trying to learn some Arabic and Japanese. Apparently, I like to make my life difficult. Might as well throw some Mandarin in there, too.
مرحباً
well if you are learning Japanese then it means you are learning Kanji, so in a way you are already learning mandarin
wait what kanji in japanese and mandarin are the same? (i am also learning japanese) @@Katzeleben6028
I was learning Korean
And I have done my corse to learn Korean and its not too hard 🇰🇷💜
Korean has grammatical similarity to Indian languages as well as alphabet. That could be the reason why it's not that hard for Indians and difficult for English speakers.
I think it depends on your native language. In Turkey, there are a lot of people who learn Korean and they say it is not hard. And even some people say "Korean is not hard as English. My Korean is better than my English" because Korean and Turkish are quite similar in grammar. I don't know your native language but as i know Korean and Tamil are close to each other as well.
The alphabet, Hangul, is very simple. The grammar seems like a nightmare though. From my pov it seems very similar to Japanese as a language, just with some slightly more complex grammar and a much more simple alphabet / character system.
좋아요, 제가 무슨 말을 하는지 말씀해 주시겠어요?
Korean didn't seem hard to me
I’m English speaker but when I learn Korean The sound are extremely easy😊
I was born in korea and I moved into Japan when I was 15 and I moved in America when I was 17 so I know ENGLISH KOREAN AND JAPANESE I'm so happy to know these words 😊
As someone who is currently learning Arabic with no previous exposure to the language it is actually pretty easy. I think it all just depends on the teacher you get
hello iam Arabic i can help u if u wante🖤
Me: But I’m teaching myself👁👄👁
For me knowing Persian is helpful, it's the same writing, lots of common vocabulary. Only difference is Arabic is semitic and Persian is Indo-European so the grammar is very dissimilar.
i also am learning arabic🤍all the best to you fam
@@mobinmirshekari4884 Lmk do you know Persian language ?
Malayalam, number one toughest language in india. Its very difficult to speak(for foreigners). If you have any doubt about it, then, goole it.
@༼ཆ༽ It says a fuckingdog😄.
@༼ཆ༽ whos barking ? U mf?
Attention seekers .. As a Malaysian tamil I can confront you Mandarin is 1000 times harder than malayalam
Arabic: i like those odds
اسموت
The language of whistles a very real thing and it works similar to a Chinese language tone is everything and so is volume pitch you make one wrong noise and you just cursed your best friend’s entire family including their dog, so this is just a stupid language in general have fun, trying to learn it, because almost no one knows it and also very few things are good at it like most speakers will get some sound wrong, and not to mention you would have to played at the perfect volume. Otherwise, you might be learning every cuss word in the dictionary just because that pitch is just oh so slightly to high or maybe the volume is too low. So good luck trying to learn that one.
chinese is actually pretty easy if you dont memorize characters as scribbles, its just in need to memorize characters element by element
انا أستطيع التحدث بالعربية بعد سنوات أخيرا!
I can speak Arabic after years finally!!
كيفك شو بتعمل بحياتك
تهانينا🥳🎉
Mandarin is the hardest because each letter have they're own meaning, but not only that they would also have they're own meaning if u speak it in a different tone, not to mention the actual alphabet is like hell to write.
try learning traditional Chinese / Cantonese lol
The tonal part is not that hard. The tones are mostly easy to separate and if you hear a lot of that language, youll get used to it. Remembering the hanzi is the only hard part of the language. At least you can always type in pin yin if you know how it is pronounced
@@Bacon_HK Sadly you cant really learn cantonese if youre outside of south china or taiwan. You can look for a teacher but theyre rare and expensive.
Indian attendance here 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Alian language 👽👁👄👁
Mandarin is alot easier than other variations of Chinese, especially Cantonese.
Even Mandarin speakers struggle to speak Cantonese fluently.
Then you have like Wenzhou dialect which is probably near impossible 😂
中国起码50种方言，南方的方言都是像外语一样
@@zhangsian519 对啊。 真是听不懂南方方言。😭😭😭
also Hokkien(Minnan) a very complex one
I am Korean.
Hangeul is the easiest and simplest alphabet in the world to learn.
However, Korean is a really difficult language.
The reason why Hangeul is easy to learn is because it is as simple as ㄱ,ㄴ,ㄷ,ㄹ,ㅁ,ㅂ.... However, unlike English, Korean combines consonants and vowels.
And another reason why Korean is difficult is that there are many words that express something that have the same meaning in Korean.
I’ve been learning Korean for 2 months now and I already know so many words and sentences so I would say that for me its not that hard to learn it.
@@jasmine6170 When I said that, I mean grammar. This is because English is in the order of subject, verb, and object, but Korean is in order of subject, object, and verb. In addition, there are 8 parts of speech in English and 9 parts of speech in Korean. So it means that studying grammar, not memorizing words, is difficult.
@@user-yw9xg9tv1t
Is it possible to learn Korean within 3 months? I just want to understand conversations in Korean, don't want to be able to speak fluently!
@@jasmine6170but adding particles is hella hard
How is hangeul easier than latin or cyrilic? Im russian i speak both english and korean and latin was so much easier for me to pick up than hangeul
50個以上はある一人称が全て”I”に翻訳されるのは本当に悲しい。日本人
中国は大量の漢字覚えないといけないからね...日本語よりも多い
でも日本語は変化や文法が独特で難しいよね
It's really easy to learn a language if you just grow up with it. My parents came from Japan right after I was born. They didn't know the language themselves so they decided to make me learn it. I grew up from watching japenese TV shows, Cartoons (mostly anime without subtitles) and even listening to japenese Poems, stories, music. I am also pretty experienced with the culture too. Now I am proud to say that I am really fluent in the language. I will be moving to Japan next month and I am really excited to visit the country.
Exactly
I have grandparents who speak it, I’m trying to relearn it so I can speak to them, their English isn’t very good. The damn language took me almost a year to get to an intermediate level.
This applies for every language except arabic. Im a native arabic speaker and its still very hard for me to understand the context of texts and there are some very complicated arabic grammar that not even one who grew up with it can surely understand it
@@anonymousperson2363 how do you learn?
@@tatordgoat4349 from grade 1-5, I learned it through Japanese school, I’m relearning it using a notebook. I learn the alphabet by searching it up, I get the grammar from a pdf or website, and I get the vocabulary from Google Translate, I search the word up for proof.
As someone of Basque ethnicity, I think Basque is the hardest on this list. I only know basic words such as hello and mom.
Not only does Basque have such complex case declension, meaning a single word can take up over 200 forms, there are also very few resources to learn this language. Compared to most language isolates like Korean and Japanese, Basque has little media out there to help learn. I've wanted to learn the language that my family was forbidden to speak for decades but it's been so hard to find a course.
I speak Spanish and English fluently and natively and I've been learning Japanese for 3 years, I think it comes down to the individual but also how many resources and media there are for the language.
Why is it forbidden to speak Basque?
@@vpvnsf The same thing happened in France with Basque, Britton, Créole and other regional languages in the early 20th century to force people to learn "proper" French. Now a lot of schools create programs to bring back theses languages and make sure they Don't get lost.
aye my basque brother
*installs Duolingo.* (I actually did it guys)
I needed to learn Hungarian for the songs at church at it’s so hard. I would put it in No1
Hungarian grammar is so hard. I'm from Hungary and I'm lerning Chinese Mandarin.
Poland grammar is that hard that some Polish peoples can't speak or write correctly 😂
i'm from germany and learning Mandarin as well :D so tough but the grammar is easy
@@GestressteKatze That's nice!😄
Én pedig japánul probálok tanulni
@@61kg61 Az nekem nehezebb. Kitartást. Susu😁
Took me one day to read and write Korean
no it didn’t
So we’re you fluent after that one day?
Try learning how to speak it properly then - a local Korean guy
@@leftblea7692 mostly likely she meant Hangul, the Korean alphabet. It's pretty easy, so it's not surprising really
as a native english (american) speaker that also speaks español mexicano, Deutsch, ខ្មែរ, ไทย.... ima say hardest to understand is a tie between *australian and scottish english* lol . in all seriousness, czech and vietnamese were hardest for me and I quit
Should greek be fifth please😢
I think Japanese is hard because you have to learn kanji (which is borrowed from Chinese), but there really aren't any difficult sounds in it, unlike in Mandarin, for instance, which I find super hard. I've been studying Japanese for almost a year now and love it.
The kanji have a lot of reading and that's what make them complicated
For example…
生(iki,nama,sei,ki,syou,zei,jyou,etc….)
日本人からの問題です。
あなたはこの文を正しく読めますか？
(もちろん日本人は全員読めます)
3月1日は日曜日で祝日、晴れの日でした
日本語勉強頑張ってー！❤
When you the video before this was easiest languages to learn and most of those are it. I don’t know what to believe anymore 😭😭
he isnt a language learner he has no clue what he’s talking about
As an Arabic girl , I’m totally agree with this vid , Arabic so difficult we suffering to learn the grammars but at the same time we love our language so much ❤.
I live in Vietnam and we have to know at least 1 language: chinese, japanese or korean if we want high salary
1. English (speak/read/write) ✅
2. Hindi ( speak/ read/write) ✅
3. Malayalam (speak/read/write)✅
4. Arabic ( read/write) ✅
5. Korean (read/write / speak) NOT FLUENT BUT STILL GUD✅
6. Tamil ( understand very well ,speak a little 👌
7. Urdu ( speak✅ understand ✅
HI GUYS THESE ARE THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGES I KNOW ❤😊
Malayalam is the toughest among them
You are from kerala
@@adithyanes8520 actually I'm not from kerala I'm not from India as well
@@vishalsharma_0705 yah ur right
@@HONEST123. How you learned it?
Hello, I'm Korean.
Your video is great.
And, despite the hardest ranking,
I'm glad about that Korean is mentioned.
Korean has very very many way to express something
It's not necessary thing in Korean.
However, without this, it's impossible to express unique,various emotions and feeling of Korean.
Are you learning Greek?
No, reason why I set my name on RUclips in Greek is just it appears pretty cool.
And
I'm trying to learn Russian instead now.
@@user-py6dy5vc8z Интересный выбор. Русский мой родной язык кстати. 화이팅
Thanks to cheer me up.
your username means "Hi, im the ceo of youtube"!
We who watch kdrama know the phrases😂of Korean
Those who watch kdramalike
I didn't know people would know Navajo, but I speak Navajo. It's easy for me.
as someone who is learning 6 of the languages from this list, my opinion is chinese actually isn't as hard as it seems, japanese also doesn't seem to complicated, korean seems pretty simple so far, arabic not been too bad so far, hungarian is actually not very difficult at all for me, yes there is a lot to learn but it all makes sense, and polish I found to maybe actually be the hardest out of all of these
Maybe you’re a genius lol
Japanese gets worse the further you get into it. That's what I've heard at least.
你是生活在中国的外国人吗，这听起来难以置信，如果你多学学中文中的文言文与成语😃
@@user-kb9eb2cu4v 不， 我永遠住在英國，我愛中文
@@user-kb9eb2cu4v 和我的中文不好，我說英文很好
Korean is not hard language for english speaker its can be hard but if you have kind of turkish grammar you can learn in a year turkish is more harder than korean and you need to add georgian language too its hard language
Out of all the world's 7000+ plus languages, most on this list are probably in the top 100 easiest for English speakers. The actual hardest ones you have not heard of, and that's why they're so hard.
I'm a native slavic speaker so polish being 10 is hilarious
Hardest language has left the chat:
Bro commented this way too fast
@@soarhighestscout7347 λμαο
Bro where vietnam
Where ithkuil
@@tuongtrinh5036Thailandese is hard but vietnamese is ez