What is the most difficult language you've ever studied?

Classic Egyptian. It has two plurals, three different writting systems (hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic), hieroglyph can be red from left to right or right to left. It's a mess.

Russian pronunciation is fine but the words have quadruple meanings and the grammar is a nightmare

probably german, if you count a few days on duolingo as "studying"
the way italians represent plural and gender is pretty confusing too
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spanish is easier than french and italian tho and its easier to understand spoken spanish than portuguese

sonderjysk
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Wife, actually.

Basque

French
that said it was the only language I studied besides English

what do you mean by double meanings?
also the pronunciation isn't that hard, i never understood that meme
It's very consistent

Probably Cherokee, though I only tried learning the writing system.

Spanish is very simple and logical, and aside from some irregular verbs, it's usually very consistent with itself.

Japanese is also very simple and logical, if alien, but the writing system is a whole different kind of fucked up, so that's my answer. The Romance and Germanic languages I've studied didn't give me any real trouble, at least not at the levels I got to. I hear more advanced German is very nuanced.

Arabic

All Irish needs to make it worse is a non-Latin alphabet.

Wouldn't that make the language easier? Since the pronounciation is (afaik) inconsistent anyway?

how much of an incel were you before you ordered her?

I suggest you snip your tubes so you can't make any elliot rogers

What makes Irish so fucked up? It looks like fucking gibberish and shit isn't pronounced even remotely like it looks like it should be, but I don't actually know anything about it at all. Was there ever an older writing system before it was Romanized?

Microsoft had me working there for two years, she was a coworker. Memes aren't always reality, fucking retard.

Depends how long constitutes “studied”, but of the ones that I’ve looked at for at least ~1/2 year, MSA is by far the hardest, in almost all aspects; phonology, grammar etc

I also found that Mandarin is highly overrated in terms of difficulty desu

Portuguese

Say what? It’s super compartmentalized and constant.

It had ogham, a sort of rune script. There is strange sounds compared to English, like 'db' which pronounced somewhat like 'v' but not really. the grammar is extremely complex, and when it gets to the future and past tenses in imperfect verbs etc the 'rules' are barely existent. All Irish spend 14 years in school learning it, and most of us know only nouns or basic conversation lines.

Without any hesitation, English.

From the ones I've studied "seriously", German.
From the ones I've checked out, Chinese, but only because of the script; otherwise I'd say Arabic.

how the fuck can you get 14 years of language teaching at a young age and not be 100% fluent?
is irish education really that shit

Non-Chilean Spanish

because class-room environments are a shit way to learn a language. We are at the forefront of empirical experimentation on that point. The language is too difficult, and when most of the class is retarded, teachers cannot hope to inspire any interest.

I know plenty of people who took Spanish every year from kindergarten to end of high school who couldn't string together a sentence to save their lives.

Among the languages I have studied, I'd say it's English.

But I guess French and German are much harder to learn.

Easiest is Spanish, and maybe Chinese.

you answered neither of my questions, creep

Finnish

What kind of problems do you have with English?

I doubt you can speak anything either than English.

Linguistic and cultural distance from Korean/Japanese to English is very far and It's barring Asians to become fluent at English

>Russian pronunciation is fine but the words have quadruple meanings and the grammar is a nightmare
the trick with russian grammar is to not even bother learning it
people will still understand you. yes you'll sound like a retard but no one gives a shit cause you can still speak better russian than 99% of foreigners.

>to become fluent
*from becoming fluent

Damn I made a dumb mistake

>femme, "e" is pronounced "a"
>oignon, "oi" is pronounced "o"
Very consistent.

cîpwayânamowin, aka Chipewyan
Hell, that goes for any Na-Dené language
>distinguish nasal vowels
>vowel length
(Cree has em, so aint too difficult)
>low vs high tone distinction
>aspiration distinction like hindic languages
>high phoneme inventory
>very foreign sounds
>nouns are built from the description of the material from pre-set morphemes, very ambiguous most of the time
Perfect pronunciation is absolutely vital in speaking Dene.
Last but not least
>infixes
pronouns are bound morphemes, although which is very common in indigenous languages to begin with like Cree, but they incorporate them within the verb root
To illustrate it;
“I am running” would be expressed something like “ru-I-nning”
“You see him” would be like “s-you-him-ee” ‘syouhimee’ something like that

That’s just basic Dene/Athapaskan grammar. Complex sentences I can’t say, because I returned the book back to the library before I delved into the subject
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not chiewyan, but slavey, which is a closely related language neighbouring chipewyan

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>What kind of problems do you have with English?

We need to grow different facial and oral muscles to pronounce English properly and the concept of having "a", "the" or nothing in front of every noun puzzles me like hell.

fluent in English*

Dude there's literal entire words that have like the last 5 letters as silent

writing it its difficult to me. All those accents :( but I can watch tv in French and understand everything even if studied it in elementary school

Exceptions like these are rare and nothing compared to english

show me

Based And Da Redpilled Mudafugga

>i never understood that meme
>It's very consistent

English's vocabulary is most of Latin and French origin, with there being a large chunk of German after that.

We usually pronounce our Latin/French words in English quite different than French.

French regional dialects pronounce things quite differently than others.

Southern French is easier for me, Parisian is a pain.

Don't worry, only é, è and ç change the pronunciation. You can actually ignore the rest

The pronunciation isn't complicated, the ortography is.

Danke

>French regional dialects pronounce things quite differently than others.
>Southern French is easier for me, Parisian is a pain.
Don't meme me, the difference is very small and I'm sure you can't even notice it. Most people speak with the standard French (parisian) accent

数学(微分幾何学)と日本語

数学は言語じゃないよ!

Icelandic
I've studied Norwegian in the past which is incredibly easy and now studying German which is between the difficulty level of Icelandic and norwegian

>Southern French is easier for me, Parisian is a pain.
Nice meme broseph

It's the language of the universe, bro

differential geometry specifically is the language of general relativity

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French is easy you pédé

Holy shit. Impressive that you looked into something like this. Are you Native or were you just curious?

What "most"?

You're fucking nuts.

You know that isn't true.

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Are you going to tell me about my country? Oh please do
Meanwhile I'm the one who actually lives in the South and talk to southerners

>Spanish
>Difficult
Your living your life the wrong way, my fren

this
It's the easiest Romance language up there with occitano-romance

Greek holy fuck

Both
I speak Cree, which is an algonquian language. My reserve is like, right on the border of Cree-Dene territory, so we get a lot of Dene speakers here and there. Wanted to better my knowledge of their language.
Dené is way different to Cree I’ll say that.
>”the Athapaskan languages are some of the most fascinating languages, but yet one of the most son of a bitchiest languages”
little quote from Edward Sapir

What are some interesting things about Cree language? Where's your reserve and what is it like?

Spanish
>2 genders
wow so progressive

some interesting features i guess could be like;
>clusivity
m.youtube.com/watch?v=QYlVJlmjLEc at 1:00
>noun animacy
>obviation & proximation
Sort of similar to Japanese ergativity
>ungendered pronouns like Finnish
>verbal transitivity
>4th person pronoun
Helps immensely with ambiguities like “he saw his dad”

The typology is polysynthetic, so words can and will be pretty friggin long. An entire sentence can literally be just one (long) word.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bxARj07jFp0 at 2:10
so basically, there’s a shit tonne of indiclinable particles/suffixes that can’t survive on their own. There are bound morphemes galore

fuck, tb.h theres alot you could talk about

i am currently studying chinese and it makes no sense. does this language have grammer or do they just see a thing and put a character to it.

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Ive been to Quebec and they have many accents themselves.

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Not sure about Chinese but Japanese grammar is highly flexible.

English

My condolences

Russian. Grammar hell.
Korean pronunciation is really hard for me.

Russian for sure but I'd rather study that then fucking span*sh
I'll take genitive plural over "AYE AYE AYE AYE AYE TEqUILA" any day

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MALDITOS GRINGOS AMERICANOS.
YANQUIS DE MIERDA!

Detente, sombra de mi bien esquivo
imagen del hechizo que mas quiero,
bella ilusion por quien alegre muero
dulce ficcion por quien penosa vivo

Putang ina mo :DDD

The grammar is fairly simple. It's very similar to English that it uses SVO

Tzutuhil. Nouns are different in neighboring villages for the same thing. On top of that, nouns and grammar are different for men and women. Very confusing.

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What kind of retard considers Spanish difficult to learn? It's probably one of the easiest languages to learn on this planet.

i have been studying hungarian for a year now and i am still having trouble with a lot of the grammar of the language, its confusing as hell, who thought mixing a weird mongol laguage with german alphabet was a good idea?

Lithuanian
Had a gf from there, and I studied the language a bit.
The grammar is fucking complicated.

>5 genders
lol
Japanese language is gender free ( * ´艸`)

>Irish only has about 50,000 native speakers in a population of several million
>they all learn English and bow down to the englishmen
you first lol pathetic

I used to learn English, Russian, Norwegian and German
I think none is difficult, I am just too lazy, but if I must to choose it ll be German.

I've only studied to a very basic level but Russian grammar is mind boggling. It seems so pointlessly complicated.

Ore, Boku, and Watashi are gendered, no?

He's probably referring to grammatical gender which is absent in Japanese.

the language of love of course

Those words are not really gendered, Japanese had two ways of being spoken for men and women, like social etiquette.
So it seems like it's gendered, but grammatically isn't.

sorry, yo no speake the browno languisto

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Found the loli chaser

japan

t. 3 writing systems none of which is an alphabet