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What is the most difficult language in the world?

If you've ever signed up for language classes like Japanese, Arabic or Chinese, chances are you've thought at some point that it's the most difficult language in the world. Is it true, or is there some other language that is even more difficult? In this article we will take a look at difficult languages and you will see how English no longer seems so complicated to you...

 

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When do we say that a language is easy or difficult?
The truth is that the difficulty is something very subjective, and that is why it is difficult to make a universal top 5. Even so, there are languages and languages: Korean, with a closed alphabet of twenty-odd characters, or Chinese, with thousands and thousands of symbols, will not be as difficult. So, languages can be classified into different groups according to their complexity, and according to how different they are from our mother tongue.

Thus, among the easiest for Spanish speakers, we would find the Latin and neighboring languages: Italian, Portuguese and French. Closely followed by the Germanic languages, such as German, and more difficult would be Hindi, Thai, Turkish or Korean.

So what is the most difficult language in the world?
Thus, in the group of the most difficult languages to learn we will find five of the most complicated languages in the world. If you learn one of these languages in a couple of months, in addition to being a genius, you may also be a hyperpolyglot.

Russian: despite sharing many roots with the Romance and Latin languages, Russian, to begin with, has a different alphabet that will have to be memorized (although it is not very difficult either): Cyrillic. Another added difficulty is the pronunciation. Although some strong sounds (such as r's) we share with Russian, many others escape us. The hardest? Definitely your grammar. It won't take long to learn the basics... but be prepared for years of effort and sweat to speak and write without grammatical errors.

Euskera: it should not surprise us if we think that even today we do not know its origins, and that the only language that resembles it, Iberian, has not yet been able to be deciphered. The hundreds of inflections of its already complex vocabulary based on prefixes, suffixes and infixes do not help either.

Japanese: it is often considered the most difficult language in the world, and it is not for less: thousands and thousands of characters (kanjis) with different phonemes associated with them depending on the word in which they are found, two phonetic alphabets and a structure hierarchical structure that must be adapted to each context. For example, the same sentence addressed to a classmate of the same age will completely change when we address someone who deserves our respect, such as a senior or a sensei. Also, Japanese culture is very superstitious and this has its effect on language as it does with numbers and their meaning.

Languages so difficult that perhaps they are more than just languages...
Arabic: its main difficulty is its enormous dialectal variety, given that it is used in many different countries. But even if they all agreed on a single linguistic, we would still have to learn its three plurals, the four variables of each word, and its irregular pronunciation. Oh, and don't forget about her writing, which, to further complicate matters, often leaves out short vowels - which you'll have to guess from the context.

Chinese: to understand each other, Chinese is the difficult version of Japanese, which, as we have already seen, is already complex in itself. In Chinese, the kanjis still come by the thousands, but without a syllabic alphabet to guide us. As if that were not enough, we must remember that Chinese has five different tones (imperceptible to those of us who have studied it) that we will have to learn to replicate, almost more like singing than speaking. Also, an even bigger problem is that… what is Chinese? And the mandarin? And what about Cantonese? And what about the more than 50 ethnic groups that inhabit this multilingual country, such as the Mongolian and the Uyghyr? Are they different languages, or dialects?

 

Perhaps, if you learn Chinese or Arabic, you won't be learning just one language, but you will master... a whole macrolanguage!