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| Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 4867 days ago 223 posts - 325 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Esperanto, French Studies: Old English, Yiddish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh, Icelandic, Afrikaans | Message 113 of 130 10 October 2011 at 8:49am | IP Logged | ||
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In you want to venture down that path: Ithkuil.
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| MarcusOdim Groupie Brazil Joined 4646 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes | Message 114 of 130 10 October 2011 at 5:59pm | IP Logged | ||
hahahahahaha 96 cases??!?!?!?! this language might be awesome 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6664 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 115 of 130 02 December 2011 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Navajo?
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| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6327 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 117 of 130 05 December 2011 at 7:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Tsez language
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| Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4756 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish | Message 118 of 130 06 December 2011 at 1:03pm | IP Logged | ||
seeing that no one has been able to speak the language fluently, not even the creator, I agree. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Balliballi Groupie Korea, SouthRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4491 days ago 70 posts - 115 votes Studies: Korean | Message 119 of 130 22 January 2012 at 6:33am | IP Logged | ||
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It's good to see Korean is the hardest language as chosen by the members here. I am learning Korean so if I master it, I will know that I've mastered one of the most if not THE most difficult language for English speakers to learn, and that will be a great feeling! Edited by Balliballi on 22 January 2012 at 7:57am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Superking Diglot Groupie United States polyglutwastaken.blo Joined 6442 days ago 87 posts - 194 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin | Message 120 of 130 24 January 2012 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Define difficulty. The four choices given above have a large number of speakers and a wealth of resources available to the aspiring learner. They are well-documented, living languages. I find learning Mandarin to be one of the easiest things I've ever done given the embarrassment of pedagogical riches that I can sift through on the internet, including Google Translate, Mandarintools.com, and a Java applet which lets you draw a Hanzi and it tells you which one you just drew. Not to mention the professionally-done, regularly updated podcasts, major news organizations that have a version of their website in Mandarin, and the newspaper put out in Mandarin that I can get free at the library.
Now, the Tagish language spoken in the Yukon territory in Canada has 2 native speakers left, and the odds of either of them being a Tagish instructor are slim. The first Google result for "learn to speak tagish" is a page about learning to speak Spanish in a city called Tagish in the US. That's one of 5,390 results, compared to 2,120,000 for "learn to speak mandarin." Imagine if everytime you wanted to practice your Tagish with a native speaker, you couldn't, because the only two left on earth were at work or asleep. Obviously the availability of resources isn't the only factor in a language's difficulty; obviously, similarities and differences in the native and target language can lend to the difficulty significantly. But it IS an important factor, along with personal ambition and time commitment. Difficulty, for me, is simply some combination of time and desire... with the right resources, it'll take less time. A lot less, in fact, than some language with 10 speakers and few or no available resources to learn from. The world's most difficult language? I have no idea -- it may be too subjective to have a universal answer. But it sure ain't Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic, or Korean. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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