What’s the Hardest Language to Learn

[Shawn Gossman]

I've been trying to learn four different languages for fun.

Spanish (I'm doing better with it than any of the others)

German

Russian

Polish

I'd love to learn Hebrew and Arabic one day, too, but those seem like they would take a lifetime to learn!

Russian so far is the hardest. It's the writing part that's alien to me.

 

[ElegantAura]

I've been trying to learn four different languages for fun.

Spanish (I'm doing better with it than any of the others)

German

Russian

Polish

I'd love to learn Hebrew and Arabic one day, too, but those seem like they would take a lifetime to learn!

Russian so far is the hardest. It's the writing part that's alien to me.

It's interesting to see what everyone thinks, it’s hard to learn because everyone’s different.

Like I mentioned before, it really depends on what language your mother tongue is. Anyway, from everything you listed here, I would have placed Polish as harder. I’m a little surprised you included Russian as harder, but I understand your point about the writing.

It’s great to see everyone’s thoughts on this

 

[Shawn Gossman]

It's interesting to see what everyone thinks, it’s hard to learn because everyone’s different.

Like I mentioned before, it really depends on what language your mother tongue is. Anyway, from everything you listed here, I would have placed Polish as harder. I’m a little surprised you included Russian as harder, but I understand your point about the writing.

It’s great to see everyone’s thoughts on this

And maybe Polish will be harder. I've not got too deep into that one yet. I've done Russian a bit more.

 

[ElegantAura]

And maybe Polish will be harder. I've not got too deep into that one yet. I've done Russian a bit more.

So, what made you want to learn Russian?
Most people usually choose languages like German , French or Spanish and a lot of younger people go for Japanese now also .

 

[Shawn Gossman]

So, what made you want to learn Russian?
Most people usually choose languages like German , French or Spanish and a lot of younger people go for Japanese now also .

I am into open-source intelligence analysis.

I figured with the National Security situation, knowing Russian could help me when I gather data.

I'm about 80% German and also Polish, I thought it would be interesting to learn it.

I also want to learn Spanish since America is getting a lot of Spanish-speaking residents and stuff like that.

 

[ElegantAura]

^ Sounds great! Good luck with the language learning

 

[The Jason]

I've heard that Navajo is extremely difficult, since its grammar is so complicated (and unrelated to English, or any other widely-spoken language). On top of that, its phonology (i.e. the sounds included in the language) is very difficult to master.

Though, I've never tried to learn it myself!

It was used to confuse the enemy in World War II

 

[passenger]

It was used to confuse the enemy in World War II

Yes indeed!
Navajo Code Talkers (link)
A code talker was a person employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication. The term is most often used for United States service members during the World Wars who used their knowledge of Native American languages as a basis to transmit coded messages. In particular, there were approximately 400 to 500 Native Americans in the United States Marine Corps whose primary job was to transmit secret tactical messages. Code talkers transmitted messages over military telephone or radio communications nets using formally or informally developed codes built upon their indigenous languages. The code talkers improved the speed of encryption and decryption of communications in front line operations during World War II and are credited with some decisive victories. Their code was never broken.