Why did they bother getting polyglots if they hadnt tried learning half the languages on this list and are just talking based on "what theyve heard about it"

I’m half Hungarian half Dutch and I speak 9 languages (working on my tenth; bit of a language freak over here). Our family used to go on Holiday in Hungary at least once a year to visit our family over there. During those holidays I picked up quite a lot of Hungarian so I could understand and speak it quite well, I thought. But found it to be not well enough; sometimes people laughed when I said something that was not meant to be funny. So I signed in to a language school and started learning what I went for: perfect Hungarian. Keep in mind that in secondary school I had great trouble with the grammatical cases in German and Latin (4 and 6 respectively). I just couldn’t grasp it. So you can imagine my heart missing a beat or two when I learned that Hungarian has 26 to 32 grammatical cases (depending on who you ask; luckily I found that I was already using most of them instinctively). Aside from a myriad of suffixes, postfixes, two conjugations of verbs in any tense (depending on the accusative), no strict word order (but the order used can change the meaning), vocal harmony (in which vowels change when adding cases, suffixes or postfixes. And it’s an agglutinative language which means that you can get very long words by adding multiple cases, suffixes and postfixes and even incorporate other words. The longest word I know as an example is “folyamatellenőrzésiügyosztályvezetőhelyettesképesítésvizsgálat”. An example of vocal harmony: “Egy remek rendszer, mellyel embereket, meg rengeteg elemet megkereshetsz” and “Öt török öt görögöt dögönyöz örökös örömök között”. Pronunciation isn’t that difficult once you learn the sounds of each vowel (without or with an acute, double acute or umlaut) and the combinations of consonants (cs, dz, dzs, gy, ly, ny, sz, ty and zs) in short and long form. There are very few exceptions in the pronunciation (mostly in family names) nor in grammar rules. Of course I realise I have the advantage of learning Hungarian from when I was 2,5 years old …

A Japanese guy living in Finland said for him it has been easier to learn Finnish than English. He said the pronunciation of Finnish is not that difficult for a Japanese speaker.

You pronounce the Finnish word’s exactly like how you write it. Also coincidentally Finnish and Japanese have similar phonetical structure.

Pronunciation is the easiest part of Hungarian, because 1 letter is always 1 sound and always the same sound. Unlike in English where “e” can be at least 3 different sounds.

This is by far one of the best KZfaq channels I've joined so far. I've always wanted to become a polyglot. So far, I've been able to speak 3 languages fluently such as English, Spanish and Portuguese which is my mother tongue and I've just started studying French.

Hello, girls! As a hungarian citizen I'm really proud of you how you read the hungarian sentence. I know it's difficult and complicated,but I have the felling that you could learn it if you want it. The video was pretty informative for me about the other foreign languages, thank you very much for your hard work on it! Big hug from Hungary

Uralic languages such as Hungarian or Finnish are hard , but arabic is another level , especially 'cause there're many dialects of it 😂

1. Kuusi palaa = The spruce is on fire. 2. Kuusi palaa = The spruce is returning. 3. Kuusi palaa = The number six is on fire. 4. Kuusi palaa = The number six is returning. 5. Kuusi palaa = Six of them are on fire. 6. Kuusi palaa = Six of them are returning. 7. Kuusi palaa = Your moon is on fire. 8. Kuusi palaa = Your moon is returning. 9. Kuusi palaa = Six pieces.

As a Finn, languages that aren't pronounced as they are written are the hardest for me (or when the script is not Western alphabet). That's why written French is easy to understand, but speaking and understanding spoken French is VERY difficult! Similarly Persian is actually very logical, simple language, with regular verbs and very little exceptions, but the Arabic script makes it hard to read - vowels are not marked, you need to know them, and several phonemes have several different letters (for example z can be ز ژ ذ ظ )

While finnish is not related to our neighboring Scandinavian languages, we still have few language relatives close to us like Estonian, Sami languages, Karelian, Vepsian, Meänkieli, Kven, and others.

I speak English fluently my mother tongue because I’m from the USA and sadly that’s it but I’m working on Spanish but it’s definitely far from fluent and beginner level. I’m going to be a foreign exchange student in Colombia and I’m very excited to learn about Colombian culture and improve my Spanish speaking! I hopefully will be able to look back at this and see how far I’ve come! I also hope to learn more languages in the future especially like Mandarin, Japanese, Thai, and Korean definitely a challenge but whatever I set my mind to I accomplish so hopefully some day!

i speak hungarian, german, english, some pretty basic spanish and i'm also studying latin. out of these, hungarian definitely seems the hardest because the grammar is so complicated and you can get reaaaly long words like megszentségteleníthetetlenségdskedéseiteért

For me as a hungarian learning finnish is easy. One letter means a sound, that's it. Like in hungarian. Learning english was difficult to me, because of the pronunciation, I still can't get it right many times...

I'm 11 and i can speak 4 languages 1. Bangla (my country's and my language / Bangladeshi language) 2. English (almost everyone knows) 3. Hindi (my neighbor country's language and I've seen so many things in hindi that's how I've learned it) 4. French (I learned it bc it's soo interesting) And guys I'm learning Japanese i know some words

3:38 It's actually easier to understand someone from the Northern regions if you speak Mandarin(minus the far North East), cause a lot of the Northern dialects are similar to standard Mandarin, and use a lot of the same words. It gets harder when you go down South, cause more Southern dialects are basically different languages with very few loan words from Mandarin, and also more differences in terms of intonation, physical gestures, etc.

Korean is easy to learn and hard to master. The alphabet is so logical and straightforward I've met one guy who said he learned it in a day. It took me about a week. Once you have the alphabet you can start to read things like street signs and order from shops or restaurants. They have so many English words that are just pronounced with a heavy accent. Very easy to pick up the basics. I think people get too hung up on being fluent. In my experience Koreans were happy that I made an effort, even if I was far from perfect.

She said that the pronunciation in Hungarian is the hardest but it’s not! As someone who learnt it growing up the pronunciation is easy if you know what sounds the accents on the letters are to make. The hardest part is the grammar and how the word changes depending on who you are talking about or how you put it in a sentence. Kudos to them though, it is so cool they are polyglots!

The writing system of Japanese or Chinese is much more difficult than Arabic one, because in Arabic they use alphabet just like in any European language, it only consists of 28 letters, so you don't have to memorize thousands of characters. The only difficulty is that vowels are usually not written.

I'm a Korean. Of all the languages in the world I learned, the easiest one was "Hungarian." Because the grammar of Korean and Hungarian is completely the same! So, as a Korean, it was very easy for me to learn the Hungarian language. However, unlike Korea and Hungary, I thought it would be difficult to learn the Hungarian language in countries that use the opposite grammar.

During lockdown, I tried teaching myself Spanish, because my mother's side is Puerto Rican, and Vietnamese because of my dad's side. Spanish is fine, and I've gotten pretty good since starting. But the Vietnamese was not happening 😑. I tried starting with the alphabet, but felt like a lot of the sounds were counter-intuitive and the tones just made it that much more overwhelming

heyo! hungarian here! yes, our language is very hard, but also very versatile :D we can say the same sentence in like 3 different ways, still it means the same. sometimes it depends on the question we were asked :D but honestly, we can understand anyone who speaks hungarian, even just a little :)

I didn't have to change much in my thinking when I studied korean in regards of in which order words go (my native language is finnish) but the polite forms drive me crazy.. maybe you might know, finnish doesn't have polite forms even in the formal speech f.e "please" doesn't exist in our vocabulary, we just say "thank you" if we remember. So it was super hard for me to get my brains to understand that yes, words can have many forms depending on how politely you are going to be speaking. On the other hand, I learned the pronounciation quickly and even got complimented by my korean friends that my pronounciation is really good. But then again, it's said that for finnish speakers it's easier to learn another language since we don't have any hard pronounciation habits in finnish language and we pronounce things quite monotone.

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I speak Filipino, English, and Spanish and I'm currently learning my 4th language which is French. I wanted to learn Mandarin as my 4th language and I did take a few classes here and there so I was able to read the sentence they showed. I think I was able to surpass HSK2 before I dropped Mandarin so I can still understand a little and form some basic sentences. The reason I gave up on it is that it's difficult as hell to speak and to listen to it, thanks to it being a tonal language. I still love it though and I wish that someday I'll be able to have enough resources to master it.

We Finnish people tend to click anything where we're mentioned since we are a rather small bunch of people 😅 So I find for example Japanese quite easy to pronounce.. compared to mandarin for sure and also some words in Japanese can sound even a bit Finnish which is weird.. but it does sound more fun. Spanish was easy to learn just for the fact the alphabet is 98% the same and words are pronounced as they're written.. as in Finnish too! I even struggle with English at times even though I speak it quite well.. the silent letters and different dialects can be mind boggling.. cause Finnish is so easy to pronounce once you know the alphabet!😅 With Japanese I'm not even starting to learn all three Hiragana, katakana, kanji.. it's overwhelming for a novice but I love it 💜✌🏻

This Brazilian girl is soooo cute, communicative and smart. Uma fofinha 😘

My favorite thing about learning Japanese and then Hungarian (family roots too) is that subsequent languages aren't as intimidating. Ok well, I'm struggling a bit with EU Portuguese because I substitute in Spanish and sometimes "Japanese" the -o at the end of words according to a native speaking friend. Things that really helped me for learning: The key for me with Japanese was taking classes at university with a teacher who really reinforced stroke order and perfecting the foundations. From there I brute forced it watching native speakers on YT and repeating what they said as well and using anki + a notebook to write to reinforce the words. I still struggle with more complex sentences and talking about abstract concepts though Hungarian is newer to me and still very much WIP. What has worked for me is really learning the sounds so I can read any word correctly (especially gy). I also do the same technique I did with Japanese. Since I want to pass the interview, I'm focused on conversation and words related to family history General tips: Understand how your brain works. It looks for patterns and WILL take shortcuts whether you want it to or not. So try to work with your brain. Continuing the above, this means repetition/consistency and increasing familiarity. If I see the same word every day over the week, it sticks better

Japanese pronounciation is I think the easiest out of the korean and chinese, but it also has pitch accent which is something a lot of learners tend to forget or just ignore, and it's really not that easy.

As someone relatively at ease with japanese, able to have conversation in Chinese, knowing a little bit of vietnamese and currently learning korean, I feel I should give my impression on these four ''East-Asian'' languages. Of the 4, Japanese has the hardest grammar; not extremely hard, but definitely harder than Chinese and Vietnamese. It has the most complex writing system, though somehow it makes the sentences clearer. And it has the easiest pronunciation (possibly one of the easiest in the world). Korean has a grammar that's about 90% as complex as Japanese ; it's also very similar in that respect, even though the vocabulary is completely different. The writing system is the easiest of all 4 and the pronunciation is not very hard either. Chinese has a very simple grammar, difficult writing system and quiet a hard-to-master pronunciation. Vietnamese has a very simple grammar, a recognizable, but at times confusing writing system (those accents make the letters not always sound the way you'd expect!) and possibly the hardest pronunciation to master of these 4.

I love learning, but some languages are just impossible, just tough . So far, I know French English Arabic Understanding hindi urdu ( working on my Spanish now)

The Finnish one literally means: "Can you read this sentense?" BUT it asking it like "Can you read this sentence (to me/to us)" NOT asking it like "Are you able to read this?" BECAUSE the one who asks the question assumes you know how to read.

you should bring a greek speak with crete's greek and cypriot greek it would be so fun

I am one of the few people who speaks German, Hungarian and Spanish. A strange combination

I can speak a few languages including Japanese. I found that learning to speak Japanese was relatively easy, it was the reading and writung that was difficult. I think the languages that are some of the most difficult for English speakers to learn to SPEAK, rather than read, are the celtic languages, such as Welsh, and my native country's language, Irish.. Tá sé an-deacair do chainteoirí Béarla an Ghaeilge a fhuaimniú agus a thuiscint.

Chinese is a notch harder than most others, because you really need lots of time to get used to spoken language. Words are very short, all sound alike, and are spoken too fast and with accent. You basically have to learn multiple small phrases by heart, because words are too short and too similar to be understood by themselves. For example, the same sound shi means tons of things, wŏ shì: I am, shìjiè: world, shìshi: give it a try, yàngshì: style, kăoshì: take a test, jiàoshì: classroom, shìshù: persimmon tree, xìngshì: surname...😂

japanese uses hiragana and kanji in their own laguage , katakana used for foreign words so you can pay attention for katakana as more often english words. most significantly kanji is sometimes combine with hiiragana so makes it more hard characterize, hangeul is have a differ like in every alphabet pattern in words should in gramatical in series and ending as you can recognize it

Then what about Vietnamese, Mongolian, Navajo or Xhosa? And what about our dear old Tibetan friends?

It's suprisingly easy for Finns to learn to pronounce Japanese. We have all the same phones but "ず" (z). Even the grammar has some similarities.

I am italian, and I speak fluent English and Spanish, some French (although I'm not fluent) and I've been learning Korean for two and a half years now. And I so agree on everything they said about Korean, especially the thing about how for a single English word there might be 5 or 6 different words in korean, it drives me nuts 😅 and I also agree, pronunciation, intonation and speaking in general is the hardest part of Korean, together with grammar of course. But it's so fascinating to think that over time, with a lot of effort, your brain literally starts slowly shifting and learns how to build complex sentences in a language with such a different structure. And funny thing is that, after spending 7 months in Korea, studying, I now started a new job again and moved to... Budapest, Hungary 😂 my Hungarian is literally non-existent but from the exposure I'm getting on a daily basis, I can definitely confirm! Hungarian sounds so insanely complicated, pronunciation is nuts. Don't know much about grammar, but it also seems very challenging (and people have been telling me it is also, like Korean and other languages, an agglutinative language). Right now I can only say hello, thank you, a few random words and I constantly mimic the metro announcements 😂

Apologies if a bunch of people have said this already. Finland and Finnish are considered Nordic, which includes Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. But Finland/Finnish is not Scandinavian. I think that is what you meant to say. And you are spot on that there is no connection. Scandinavian languages are Germanic. Finnish is not even Indo-European. It is Finno-Ugric. The closest language is Estonian. The word then that describes the northern countries from Denmark to Finland is The Nordics. But Estonians and Finns cannot really understand each other, not like Norwegians, Danes, and Swedes. I have been in meetings with Danes and Norwegians who talk their own languages but still understand each other. Swedes can join in, too, but it's a bit more difficult for them. And there are two versions of Norwegian: Bokmål and Nynorsk. If you speak Bokmål Norwegian you can understand Danish much better. Or so I have been told. :) Finnish is one of the easiest languages to pronounce. Either of you could learn to pronounce Finnish words perfectly after just 20 minutes. You are correct about the grammar. It's extremely complicated. But the grammar makes sense after you understand the rules, and there are only a handful of exceptions you have to remember.

I've always loved languages specifically because they expand how you think, and from my perspective it's fundamental in being able to understand another person from another culture. For those who are interested, languages fall into 3 categories - SVO, VSO and SOV. These stand for Subject, Verb and Object, and refer to the order these will appear in a standard sentence. Understanding which type of language you are learning will give you an easy boost in learning the grammar and structure of a new language. In my own experience, I'd rate language difficulty in 3 ways. Pronunciation, structure/lexicon and written. My ranking of hardest to easiest in terms of pronunciation: Mandarin, Russian, Spanish (Caribbean), French, English (because that's my native tongue), Japanese. Structure, hardest to easiest - Japanese, Mandarin, English (in all fairness), French, Spanish, Russian. Writing: Japanese, Mandarin, Russian (just because of learning the Cyrillic alphabet, but aside from that it's really not bad at all), French, Spanish, English. Frankly, if you have any two of French, English and Spanish, the third will probably be quite easy to pick up. I grew up with French and English, so when I got around to Spanish, it was much quicker than other languages had been. That said, Caribbean or South/Central American Spanish will be very different from that spoken in Spain. While some things are just pronounced differently to begin with, In some places also it's common to run things together, omitting letters or sounds that you'd normally expect to hear. If you're a fellow Canadian, and have ever listened to how people talk in Newfoundland, you'll understand what I mean. Sentences are fast, and it's like the words are falling down a flight of stairs. It all runs together. You get used to it. Anyhow, if you haven't learned another language, that's something you can do for yourself for free using online resources, and it will really improve your life and expand your mind. I highly recommend it to everyone. Even if you just learn a few basics, it will enrich you. I tried German once, and found it quite daunting. I stopped almost immediately. I may give it another shot someday now that I've had more experience learning other languages. I've taken a brief glance at various Germanic and Nordic languages, and they also look pretty daunting. If you struggle learning one language and find yourself tempted to quit, try switching languages. There may be one that's easier for you now, and later you can come back to this one.

Also counting things in Japanese is very difficult. Depending on the object you have to use different countable words.

Even native Japanese speakers can't read or write some kanjis, so don't be intimidated. 😂 The top-bottom writing style is the traditional one, which is the same way as Chinese, and it definitely came from China.

Oh my god I didn't realize I said "brazilian speaker" OH MY GOD 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 *lowkey panic atack* I'm really not that stupid 🤣🤣🤣

My top favorite guests in World Friends videos, in no particular order: Andrea from Spain, Saki from Japan, Monika from Poland and Ana and Julia from Brazil n.n

when it comes to arabic even the order of the sentences are a bit different. it's my mother language and I remember the first class of english loooong time ago and how shocked I was because for me back then english has a really different order when it comes to sentences for example "a big house" for us it would be "a house big" or "she's a beautiful girl" it would be like "she's a girl beautiful" the objects always comes before adjectives . that's why I also don't struggle with spanish cause sometimes it has the same order as in arabic (are the other languages like that? cause maybe English is the different one lol).

As a Hungarian speaker I would say Italian, Spanish (easiest) < English < Portuguese and Dutch < Romanian and French < Finnish and Russian < German < Arabic < Korean < Hungarian < Japanese

Put these polyglots (I know Ana and Draga had a video before) in one room for further discussion. And perhaps make it likeva game for them to guess languages they don't know. It will be fun! 😃

Finland and Iceland are Nordic, while Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are Scandinavian. Then again, it depends on who you ask…

She said she didn't know any Mandarin, but her accent is perfect, and the tones are exactly right! Sounds like a native speaker.

Hungarian sometimes is not easy for us Hungarians too. I usually forgot some words and say it in English (or sometimes Spanish, I'm learning that too.) And I'm basicly interested in some Asian languages because I was a K-pop fan, but also a K-, J-, Chinese, Thai dramas as well, so I have a perspective about other hard languages. I think English was very simple to learn in an advanced level, because it is not as hard as my own. 😀 But I see why it is so hard for other people, but very logical in my opinion and also we have a visual language like you say something: "magyar" (Hungarian) and "magyaráz" (explain), so you can conclude what it is means from the other simpler word. We built words like a house, and also it will be different meanings. Germans could understand this system maybe.

As a Hungarian i found easy to learn Japanese. Both languages has a variable word order depending on the focus of the conversation, both agglutinative, both use vowel harmony so what i really learned was just vocabulary, writing (which is the hardest) and manner.

Navajo sitting in the far, far distance. 👁️👁️

Personally, I only speak english and a tiny bit of french. I’ve been learning Japanese for 6 months and I understand hiragana, katakana and about 200 kanji. I enjoy the challenge of learning something so different, so I don’t find it scary. I’m excited to learn more :) i also love how japanese sounds.

well I speak russian german english and japanese fluently... can some how french spanish chinese a little bit more working now on korean

I am learning Thai. I thought that would be on your list of hardest languages to learn. I’m struggling with the five tones. I definitely have to watch the tones because you can really change the meaning.

As a polyglot myself, (though only fluent in 5 languages) I can speak a decent amount of 7 languages: english, polish, french, mandarin, japanese, korean, and german. I think out of these languages by FAR the most enjoyable ones to learn were mandarin and japanese. Mandarin characters are very simple to use atleast in typing after a while of learning, grammar is very straight forward, the only thing I struggled with for a while was pronounciation but after a year my online friends from China as well as my teacher say I am able to speak pretty accurately, especially if I can read what I am saying. I struggle with speaking off the top of my head because I forget the tones for some certain words (notably longer words of course such as when talking about my current college classes 工程科学课 gong cheng ke xue ke --engineering theory class I somehow always forget what tone the 程 is which is very annoying lol) But as I said it is very fun to learn. Not to mention so many words are very understandable and have noticible connections to one another. When talking about school and learning you can expect to see the word 学 and 教 frequently. 学 xue is to study/learn and they say 学生 is student, 同学 classmate， 学习 study, 学校 school 大学 college; I could go on. As you can see, the trends make it very comprehensible when you are learning it. It also is very helpful when learning japanese as I can read many kanji or atleast understand the underlying meaning (though sometimes my brain defaults to chinese with kanji like 学生 gakusei because, c'mon, thats like the same word lol). Anyways, I digress sorry for the short rant about Chinese, but seriously if you wanna learn a language chinese is the best one imo. So useful and such a beautiful language too, not to mention funny and cute at times.

They are different Arabic languages, and MSA is used as an artificial common language that people rarely use in normal life, but useful if you are interested in classical literature, and it's the only written language too.

I respect people that can speak several languages like they breathe. For me, you are the real ones!

i was learning korean for 4 semesters. OMG their exams are brutal. All that time was super stressful and i decided to stop.

Uhm....I guess that since she doesn't know how to read basic 漢字（読む）she hasn't yet delved into the more complicated aspects and grammatical rules when it comes to Japanese...and by the way Japanese has different levels of formality as well (タメ口、丁寧語、尊敬語、謙譲語…which can be divided into two types 謙譲語Ⅰ and 謙譲語Ⅱ, and then 美化語)...and then you have hundreds upon hundreds of grammatical patterns that in most cases don't even have any "European" equivalents and I would argue that it has a higher level of complexity regarding the way you're supposed to choose the right term and the right nuance for each context, compared to other European languages I know (the way you're supposed to differentiate between oral and written languages, 話し言葉 vs 書き言葉 is way stricter than in my native language for instance, and you also have 和語, or 大和言葉, aka native Japanese words vs. 漢語 sino-Japanese words, just like Korean)

I speak German, Portuguese, French, Spanish, a little bit of Japanese and am currently learning Chinese. Learning new languages unlocks so many doors in life it's crazy. I encourage anyone to learn a new language, it guess easier with each new one you learn imo.

japanese kanjis have at least one meaning and at least one reading.. kanjis like 電den for electricity there are also some extremems like 生sei 　has with diffrent combinations like 生憎　ainiku over 170 readings most of them are names though... kanjis are essencial as when you wanna live in japan you have to fill out froms , a lot of forms filled with kanji.. many words sound also the same even the phonetics.. one of an extreme example is こうしょう　koushou ich have over 70 diffrent words in compoundwords with 2 characters... not everything you can hear out of the sentence... even after over 20 years of japanese I still encounter words that I never heard before...

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4:33 That's not completely right. I am Saudi, our "version" of Arabic is very similar to standard Arabic, so every other Arabic speaking nation can understand us when we speak, similar things could be said about the neighboring gulf countries; Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, and Oman. It is called the "gulf dialect" because dialects spoken in the gulf are very similar to one another. To extent degrees- Yemen and Iraq, they have their respective categories, simply because their dialects aren't very similar to their neighbors, but easily understandable. The Levant; Syria, Jordan, Palestine, and Lebanon have their own very similar dialects too, and they are similar to the standard Arabic as well, so understanding them is no problem. Now, to the interesting stuff, Egypt. Egyptian Arabic, in comparison to the Arabic spoken in the peninsula, isn't that similar to standard Arabic. However, it is intelligible and understood by everyone who speaks the language - Egyptian movies, serieses and even memes are popular in Arabic speaking countries, and in all honesty, we just love the Egyptian people. We grew up besides them and hear them speak all the time. Similar things could be said about Sudanese Arabic, it has its own flavor - with the infamous "ay" that follows every word - I find it relatively close to the Hejazi accent, which is spoken in Mecca and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Algerian, Libyan, Tunisian, and Moroccan dialects are similar, but understanding Tunisians, Libyans and Algerians is way easier than understanding Moroccans in their wild habitat. IDK why, maybe it's the French, or the Berber, or just the fact that geographically, Morocco is the furthest away from the peninsula. They can understand us very well though. In conclusion, the only Arabic dialect most of us don't understand is Moroccon Arabic, but Moroccons can understand every dialect.

Japanese has three different alphabets (all used together in a sentence!) - PLUS it has informal and formal language as well...and the grammar is sort of complex, with different counting systems for different types of objects!

Please do the most easy ones... I don't need to know difficult languages, I need the easy ones. (And it would be good to see from different first languages, not just english)

Are we forgetting that Scotland Ireland Jamaica Nigeria the United States Australia and New Zealand are English speaking countries yet sound almost like totally different languages next to each other

if you think Mandarin is difficult try Cantonese. After a bit you do hear the tones, plus Mandarin speakers often ‚skip‘ them since the context tells you the meaning. Try Vietnamese, more tones than Chinese. Korean, pronunciation is hard to understand at times. Most difficult: Finnish, Hungarian, the grammar alone will make you cry. Arabic. Japanese is not difficult in comparison, once you have the Kanji down (used also in Chinese, how practical, since they ARE Chinese characters).

i speak mandarin, japanese and arabic and those being the first three i was pretty quickly put off it's not their fault for not knowing, but it's dumb that the producers would cast them when they have no experience with these particular languages and are not only going to look bad, but also spread misinformation

As an English speaker who has learned Mandarin, Mandarin does have tones (not intonation) but it definitely is the hard part for English speakers. The grammar though, is very simple because there aren't any conjugations at all, like say for example Spanish. Traditional Chinese characters are not a different language it's just the original form of the characters before Mainland China simplified them. But if you want some learning tips to start learning Mandarin, I can definitely recommend some resources!

I speak German and English and I'm currently studying Korean. The different sentence structure never really bothered me. I struggle in English sometimes with word order but only the smaller things. Korean putting the verb at the end never seemed difficult or unusual to me.

as a persian i'd probably rank arabic as the hardest. Even tho we use arabic script and many arabic(ish) words, but the arabic grammer and writing way is really hard, and also irrational. Like it doesnt really make sense to have different sentence's structure for two people compared to more than two people while also differ if youre talking about two females or two males...

As a native speaker in korean, english, chinese lemon, russian, Javascript and C# I can confirm I don’t understand any of those mentioned above…

There's a different between the most difficult language to learn to understand a few sentences in and the most difficult language to master. I don't think there has ever been a person learning Swedish as an adult who has managed to sound like a native speaker. People can have lived in Sweden for over 25 years, and they have actively been learning Swedish throughout all those years, but are still unable to even pronounce all the letters of the Swedish alphabet correctly.

Hey brazil girl, if youre reading this, Vary is pronounce like VAH-ree

Two weeks would be enough to read the Hungarian language if you really wanted to learn it. More phonetic script than Portuguese. You would only have a problem with the same sounds as in the case of the German language. The sounds you may have trouble with as a Portuguese speaker are "ö", "ü", "c" - "z" in German, or like "gy"

It would be interesting to do the same video but with Asian (Middle East, South Asian, and East Asian) and polyglots.

This Brazilian girl is so beautiful

영어, 일어, 스페인어 가능한 한국인으로서 영어, 스페인어는 끊임없이 공부해도 감 잃기 너무 쉬움. 반면에 일본어는 한국어랑 비슷한 느낌이지만 (물론 N1 취득 이후 중고급 과정부터 겁나 어렵긴함 ㅠㅠ) 서양 언어보다 확실히 습득하기 쉬웠었음. 개인적인 3개 언어 난이도는 영어 > 스페인어 >>> 일본어 느낌임

I wanna give the brazilian girl a big hug.

I don´t know, don´t take me wrong, but maybe the videos would be better without the background musics. Some of them are kinda distracting =/

That Japanese sentence was missing a か from the end and the correct Finnish sentence would have been "Osaatko lukea tämän lauseen?" The one in the video is a request while my version is inquiring about the readers ability. The corrected Finnish sentence is in-line with the Japanese sentence. Regarding the origin of Finnish: Finnish has obviously had a lot of contact with other European languages which means that there are a lot of ancient and more recent loanwords. Even ancient proto-European words that have survived with minor changes in Finnish/Finnic-languages but didn't survive in their original languages.

Thanks for your vídeo. Arabic is not dificult for a speaker spanish. Saludos

Julia is so Brazilian hahahaha so warm and talkative. 😂 Representando hahah. ❤🇧🇷 But I agree… I know Japanese a little because of Anime and stuff, but Korean is WAY worst because even if it’s romanized I can’t speak properly hahahah.

Cantonese is a tonal language and it’s way harder to learn than Mandarin. A high school Chinese student usually already learned approx 2,000 Chinese characters.

As a speaker of Arabic, I can say Arabic for non speakers can be a really hard language to learn since the dialects are quite different from each other For eg if you want to say for eg What's your name in MSA its Ma Howa Ismuka ما هو اسمك But in dialects they use like Shu ismak شو اسمك Wesh ismak وش اسمك Ismak sheno اسمك شنو Wash semeytek واش سميتك Ismak eeh اسمك ايه So you can see how overwhelming it can be to non Arabic speakers 😅😂.

I'm a Japanese and leaning Spanish now. Spanish is easier for me to pronounce but difficult to understand some grammar. BUT definitely better than English!! I remember when I started to learn English at the age of 13, I did't know how to write each alphabets hahaha

No one ever remembers the hardest language to learn for speakers of any language: sign language.

As an Filipino it's hard for us to correlate to each other becoz each island and provinces has different languages it's easy for Chinese japanese and Koreans becoz they have the same dialect for us Pinoy's we have more diverse languages it's about 120 of them 😊😊😊❤😂😂❤❤❤❤❤

Korean and Japanese are not equally challenging. She can’t read “read” but she’s an expert on the language?

Finnish is surely a Nordic language. Not much related to the other Nordic languages maybe, but still it is for the simple reason that Finland is a Nordic country. Linguistically there isn't a term "Nordic language". The other Nordic languages are Germanic/Indoeuropean.

Greetings from Cairo Egypt 🇪🇬

Both English and Chinese are my first languages if not mother tongue, and I just say day if you’re not intimidated by Chinese writing (the characters), it’s a lot easier than English as its grammar is very unsophisticated.

I wonder how the intonation thing would work for people on the Autism spectrum. Cuz when they speak it can be very monotone. So I wonder how they'd make people around them understand what they're trying to say. And how they'd understand what others are saying to them.

Esperanto!

Im struggling so much with Korean... HELP.

*Great! Currently am learning Arabic 🇸🇦 dan Korean 🇰🇷. Am so grateful. Thank you for sharing about top most difficult languages in the world! ☕🍹*

"Different countries speaking arabic can't understand each other" so a bit like english, swedish, german and south europeans don't quite understand each other even though they speak pretty much the same language. The thing with Finnish is that you won't hear an English speaker that can get the double vowel or double consonant which are two foundations of the language. They just ignore the double every time. And just about every word has either or both, so you need to understand that it exists. Same for ä and ö. They're not a and o (even though English speakers say ä all the time instead of a, you non-english people know what I'm talking about). Some of the difficulty in real life is also how text book language and casually spoken language can be very different, and different dialects can have completely different words. But if you know the book language, you will be considered speaking well, even if nobody really speaks like that. Russian has to be about the easiest European/Asian language to learn. It's so straight forward. No extra words, you just say exactly what you need to. And have alot of loan words from English but pronounced in Russian so they're easier to say. Greek is also interesting and if you have studied math/physics/engineering and/or know Russian, you'll know a lot about Greek. Furthermore the fact that western civilization is founded on Greek and as such a ton of everyday words in European languages are from them, so it's funny to rediscover that you in fact do understand Greek. The only maddening thing is the pronunciation rules.