<p>Hungarian has about 37 or so cases which is crazy.Estonian has about 14 cases, and Finnish has about the same. Russian has 8 and German has 4. English has 0 and has no gender (Easiest language in the world).</p>
<p>Hungarian is freaking hard...my friend's family is fluent...and in English, and Spanish, and Latin, as a matter of fact. English is hard though, to people that it isn't native for, because of all the irregular rules that English has in verb cases, and like weird stuff.</p>
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<p>East Asian languages (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) are difficult to learn because of the scripts... to read a newspaper in Japanese you need to know the almost 2000 jouyou kanji. Estonian and Finnish are difficult too. Personally... I find Spanish quite easy to learn, but then I've only done a year of it.</p>
<p>I don't think that characters would be hard to learn. Spanish is easy, because it is a fluid language....</p>
<p>Yeah, aren't charcters like recognizing words?
And i agree with the english thing, there are soo many inconsistencies, like bologna. when i first read that when i was 7 or so, i read it "ba log nah" and my dad burst out laughing like in the grocery store. how the hell do you get "baloneY" from "bologna"</p>
<p>German is pretty easy! :)</p>
<p>Isn't bologna Italian? (Although I think the "e" sound was done by Americans possibly) Same thing with lasagna. It's not pronounced las-ag-na but la-zan-ya.</p>
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<p>Yeah but most of my friends who come here from Russia and China and other places say English is so easy to learn. Some my Russians friends say they can speak better English then Russian now and that it's alot more logical (I think thats what they said).</p>
<p>As an emigrant from Eastern Europe, I can tell you that English was terribly difficult to learn for all the members of my family. It is an illogical, inconsistent conglomeration of various European languages. I was lucky to come here at a young age so I retained my native language while learning this one to a reasonable degree of proficiency.</p>
<p>In general, no language is truly easy to learn, including the stereotypical Spanish. However, the least difficult languages to learn are the ones related to the languages you already speak. For English speakers, I imagine German would be relatively easy, and the Romance languages would also be readily accessible because of the similar grammatical structure and many similar words to English.</p>
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<p>German is very easy, there is also no silent leters :p</p>
<p>English may be superficially easy because it's everywhere in our surroundings. From most accounts, it's not an easy language to learn, and is probably one of the harder European languages to learn.</p>
<p>I think the hardest languages are Japanese, Finnish, and Arabic. </p>
<p>For an English speaker, I'd imagine Spanish to be the easiest, closely followed by French, and maybe German.</p>
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<p>I think I'm weird - I took two years of Spanish, and congugating verbs - wow, it did not work for me. Weird, I was good at interpreting/translating on paper, I just didn't have the proper tongue for it at all. Speaking was terrible. Yet, half of my family is German, and I went to Germany over the summer, and ended up picking up quite a bit. I now plan on minoring in German during college. Once you learn the double 's' and 'oo' thing, pronunciation is pretty easy.</p>
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<p>Spanish always seemed really easy to me but it might just have been because I lucked out with good teachers:) I'm trying to learn Hebrew right now and its pretty hard because of all the different characters. It's a very interesting language though so I think it makes the struggle worth it:):):)</p>
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<p>^^^^^^^^^ Thats me, I had no idea what the hell was going on in Spanish. German was so much more easier for me then Spanish. But then again the whole gender and case system was confusing.</p>
<p>Chinese is pretty hard, overall. Latin's grammar is difficult.</p>
<p>Learning to SPEAK and COMPREHEND Japanese is easy-the verbal grammar rules are consistant and there are no "tricks" like English</p>
<p>READING and WRITING are of course, harder for the non-native to understand.</p>
<p>Personally, I think Spanish is sooo easy. Practically a fourth of our (English)words comes from Spanish. Er...or at least where I grew up... :)</p>
<p>Same with Chinese, it isn't that hard. The grammar isn't that difficult, for there really is no grammar. Measure words are the only "hard part" about it. Latin's grammar is ridiculously unnecessary...that is why it is dead.. :-)</p>
<p>I think the hardest part about Chinese isn't in the grammar; it's in reading/writing/remembering all of the different characters.</p>
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<p>korean is pretty easy. My friend whose white already could speak fluent in two years. English is very hard in my opinion.</p>
<p>I think french is quite easy.. because the grammer is kinda simliar to that of english, and the spellings of french words are similar to english words.</p>
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