Hardest Languages?

[Amagi 1,728]

Tanki is an International game, and we expect many different people from different countries speaking in different languages that we sometimes can't understand, but what are the hardest ones to learn/understand?

 

Note: Let me change your perspective of English:

Let's face it - English is a crazy language:
There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple or pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England, and French fries aren't French.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
Quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea, nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
One goose, two geese; so, one moose, two meese? One index, two indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends, but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends, and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

[I.WalkAlone 548]

XD. I've read this before though.

Here are some quotes:

“Our language is funny – a ‘fat chance’ and a ‘slim chance’ are the same thing.”

J. Gustav White

“If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.”

Doug Larson

“If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.”

Doug Larson

“Why do we have noses that run and feet that smell?”

Author Unknown

“English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway.”

Author Unknown

“The word ‘good’ has many meanings.  For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”

G. K. Chesterton

“Lymph, v.:  to walk with a lisp.”

Washington Post reader

“I like the word ‘indolence.’ It makes my laziness seem classy.”

Bern Williams

“The two most beautiful words in the English language are ‘check enclosed.’”

Dorothy Parker

“The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian ‘pahks’ his ‘cah,’ the lost ‘r’s migrate southwest, causing a Texan to ‘warsh’ his car and invest in ‘erl wells.’”

Author Unknown

“‘I am’ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‘I do’ is the longest sentence?”

George Carlin

“Rudyard Kipling was fired as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner. His dismissal letter was reported to have said, ‘I’m sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don’t know how to use the English language. This isn’t a kindergarten for amateur writers.’”

Author Unknown

“The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.”

Dorothy L. Sayers

“What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don’t forget that feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication.”

Author Unknown

“English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.”

Bill Bryson

“Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.”

Bill Bryson

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”

Ronald Reagan

“In my sentences I go where no man has gone before… I am a boon to the English language.”

George W. Bush

“Introducing ‘Lite’ – The new way to spell ‘Light’, but with twenty percent fewer letters.”

Jerry Seinfeld

“England and America are two countries separated by a common language.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.”

Robert Benchley

“When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.”

Henry David Thoreau

“I speak two languages: Body and English.”

Mae West

“Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.”

H. L. Mencken

“Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

[Amagi 1,728]

“Why do we have noses that run and feet that smell?”

XD 

[EuzLo 491]

Welsh ok ... Mae Cymraeg yn iaith eithaf anodd i'w hysgrifennu i lawr ar bapur oherwydd bod gymaint o reolau gramadeg ond os ydach chi o deulu Cymraeg, mae siarad yr iaith eithaf hawdd am ryw reswm ... Weird language o_O

[ArcticCow 454]

every language which u dont know is the hardest. like to u bengali will, be hard but to me its easy and to me hardest language which i think is Chinese 

[I-Iero 823]

GIbberish

[fahim_the_boss 1,519]

Chinese .

[pizzaslad 471]

Don't we all need 32 toothbrushes to brush our teeth? And don't we need 32 tubes of toothpaste too???

[legenddestroyer 824]

Hardest language. Hmmm, all of the languages that i don't know are hard xD

[GWLGUPTA 511]

Hardest language? Its Sanskrit. 

[ognjen556 231]

Sinhala,my mother tongue.

[MyLife_MyReign 256]

French.

Edited July 6, 2014 by MyLife_MyReign

[GoldRock 6,165]

Chinese isn't actually as hard as it looks... Learnt it at school for a couple of years, but dropped it because the teacher gave crazy amounts of homework.

[falcosenna1 8,320]

Exactly :D Fries are Belgian :D

 

English muffins weren't invented in England, and French fries aren't French.

 

I think Russian is quite difficult. Dutch isn't easy either. The grammar is quite hard with a lot of exceptions. 

Edited July 6, 2014 by falcosenna1

[Latvian_troller 63]

Latvian™

[Guest Maserati]

Latin

[FaaiqBilal1 795]

All languages have their dark side, but IMO chinese is the hardest.

[falcosenna1 8,320]

Latin

Latin isn't that difficult. It's quite logical. 

[loktinho 62]

Hm...I'd probably say Chinese because of the wide range of characters and having it split between Simplified and Traditional. There's also Cantonese, Mandarin, and many other tongues spoke in China, which is pretty astounding. 

[HydroBolt 15]

^+1

[aperaiderpistol 459]

Probably Arabic and Chinese

[falcosenna1 8,320]

All languages with different characters will be very difficult. 

[Moraine 5,877]

For me Japanese, Scandinavian languages, Hungarian...  

[echo_bravo_alpha_111 12]

me ...............only chienese

 

japanese is little bit easy because i watch anime a little bit

[residenthack 11]

For me Japanese