2 Polyglots Share Ranks Top 6 Most Difficult Languages in the World!!
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Do polyglots learn every languages easier?
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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 can only guess, but I would say that a polyglot is more likely to be interested in other languages and how difficult they would be to learn than a person who only knows two languages, and learned the second one by osmosis or something like that. You would get better insights from them than from someone not interested in learning different languages. Again, this is my guess.
Frrr
Exactly what I was thinking. Waste of time
They know way more than you about them and know about the complexity of learning very different languages. Their opinion is interesting. Nobody knows every language. Do you think they should have chosen non polyglots to make this video more interesting?
@@reinach77 They could have at least hired polyglots who had some experiences with the languages they wanted them to discuss. Or a panel of different polyglots to get a variety of experiences. But instead we have two people who admit they don't know anything about most of the languages. It'd be much more interesting to me to hear from people who have some experience but don't necessarily have to be experts.
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.
I'm also of the opinion that a lot of the pronunciation of Japanese is easy to learn for Finns. Getting to a level of being understood should be very easy. The only difficult part is nailing all of the pitch accents, especially in short two syllable words.
Japanese can struggle with U/Y 😅
So is a Hungarian guy with the Japanese language. In principle, there is a faint crazy relationship between Finnish and Hungarian. A strange relationship with Japan. Interesting...
as a finnish person learning japanese, i definitely agree. there's some differences in pronounciation but in general they are very very similar
Exactly, my opinion is too japanese isnt that hard, but some finns just cant spell words even tho its super easy, idk how.
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 …
Hungarian is a category 2 language, same as Finnish and Estonian, and most of the cases in agglutinative languages are just the postpositions aka the prepositions of the agglutinative languages, while the true cases are nominative / accusative / dative / genitive that all languages use in one way or another - most Hungarian words are so pretty like nyelv / elem / lesz / hét / ember / tíz etc, as pretty as the Germanic words and the modern Celtic words, so it’s very easy to learn them, as one naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster!
By the way, my current levels are...
- upper intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / German
- writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish
- upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian
- intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian / Welsh
- beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene
- total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / Urkers / Hunsrik / East Norse / Ruhrpöttisch / Alemannic / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Pälzische Deutsch / Austrian German / Waddisch / Palatine German / Westföälsk Sassisk / Austro-Bavarian / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / Sognamål / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Yiddish / Afrikaans / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc)
(I highly recommend learning Dutch / Icelandic + Norse + Faroese / Norwegian as they are so magical, as pretty / refined / poetic as English - all other Germanic and the other pretty languages on my list are also gorgeous, so they are all a great option!)
I highly recommend learning the prettiest and most refined / poetic / magical languages ever created Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Danish / Faroese etc,, as they are way too pretty not to know, and other gorgeous languages like Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic and Hungarian and Galician / Latin / Gallo / Catalan / Venetian etc and Slovene - I highly recommend learning the pretty languages to a native speaker level at least, and it’s even better to learn them to a writer level, and, technically, one must learn over 10.000 base words automatically to get to a native speaker level in a language, which takes a few years of regular and constant éxpòsure to the language and a lot of watching and rewatching of vocab videos with hundreds and thousands of words and learning many lyrics in the target languages and watching every video and movie with subs in the target languages etc, and one can learn multiple / many pretty and easy languages at the same time, which includes all the languages on my list, as they are all category 1 and category 2 languages, except for Irish and Scottish Gaelic which are the only category 3 languages on my list, and, one can get to a fluent level in a few years in most of them if one is learning them 2gether, which is the most efficient way to learn languages, just like I do, as I am learning 15+ languages at the moment, which is a lot of fun!
“folyamatellenőrzésiügyosztályvezetőhelyettesképesítésvizsgálat”
Oh, non! This are 3 words! And it is in Hungarian: folyamatellenőrzési ügyosztályvezetőhelyettes képesítésvizsgálat.
English has the longest words ever tho, some of the longest English words are lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsan…pterygon, aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, parastratiosphecomyiastratiosphecomyioides, antidisestablishmentarianism etc - English also has the longest word ever created that is 189,819 letters long, which is the chemical name of some chemical! 😂
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.
Same with finnish!
Kind of, and I appreciate its phonetic nature, though the Hungarian idea of a "letter" is different because it includes various digraphs and one trigraph (cs, sz, gy, ly, dz, dzs, ...).
@@JfromUK_ Just like English (ch, sh, th). German has a trigraph (sch).
Finnish is phonetic language where each letter represents one phoneme except ng as in English because there’s no single letter representing that phoneme.👌 Think Latin, Italian or German pronunciation. 🤔
The best part: the stress is always on the first syllable.✌️Which leads to common mistake for foreigners:
The capital is pronounced: HELsinki👌… not HelSINki😣😖
Practice with the model sentence given in the video that means: “Can you read this sentence?”👌
@@JfromUK_Those are single alphabetic letters in Hungarian, they are in the alphabet as 'cs', 'gy', etc.
Unlike there are no 'ch', 'th' in the English ABC, or 'sch' in German ABC.
Uralic languages such as Hungarian or Finnish are hard , but arabic is another level , especially 'cause there're many dialects of it 😂
Just like Arabic, you have to learn both dialectal Finnish and standard Finnish. Literally no one speaks standard Finnish in their daily life and it’s quite different.
Dialects aside, Arabic still Hard for foreigners. Why ?
1. Grammer is diverse and way more logic based.
2. Some letters are really hard to pronounce as foreigners.
3. Non written short vowels in the script.
I think Language Hardcores would really love the language, it’s not hard as same as Chinese where you need to memorise. it’s hard but challenging at the same time
Not dialects, Arabic languages.
They are so different because they are not dialects, but Languages. The problem is that for political reasons they are not recognized officially, but they are as different as the Romance languages like Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, etc.@@JoshHutchersonOfficial
Standard Arabic Language is easy, do not let them fool you!
Dialects Unfounded!
As an Arab, colloquials arabic are obnoxious, ugly and extremely provocative.
For me personally, they are the dialects of ignorant, illiterate, and rude people who love to harm others ( Sadists and Masochists ).
Those dialects are full of obscenity and impoliteness, and their voices are harsh and rude. No noble, educated person with high morals likes those dialects. We, as Arabs, classify those dialects as ( Vulgar / Rude speech ). Even when I want to know the meaning of a particular word in the arabic dialect, I return it to its STANDARD ORIGIN ( The Arabic Standard Language is pretty, quite, polite, scientific, poetic and systematic ).
So dialects are useless.
It is always known that Standard is easier than colloquial.
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 )
As another Finn, I add that there's no such thing as a language that is "written as it's pronounced", because no language is written in a phonetic script (and even if there were one, capturing all the real total complexity of sounds of a language into writing would be a nightmare, a totally impractical endeavor). That said, Finnish ortogrgraphy is phonologically (not phonetically, because again, it's not phonetical at all!) pretty straightforward, save a couple of peculiarities such as limit gemination which take years to fully master for an adult learner. In any case, one has to know what the exact sounds of Finnish are that are being represented by the alphabet, and what sounds are *not* represented (e.g. the normally unmarked glottal stops in "hää'yö'aie"), and what are the syllables permitted (with some guesswork left to do even in the aforementioned example: is it a-ie or ai-e [ˈɑ̝i̯e̞ˣ]? Easy if you already know what words Finnish has and what it doesn't), and what are the sandhi (which are there for a reason: it's clearer for comprehension to write "enpä" rather that "empä").
I think that syllabries, such as the Korean Hangul allow for a much more straightforward transformation from speech to writing or vice versa, compared to alphabets. Finnish is a pretty good try still.
@@kyyyni As someone who learned Finnish as foreign language, I can say, it is written as pronounced. Sure, there are some things one has to be aware of, but generally, what you say is very close to what you write, closer than in the most other languages.
As a persian i really like finnish. I like the sound of it and the fact that it's logical(as much a i know) and you read what you right...nice language overall
And i love persian because the same reason you do. Although i hate the part that it has been influenced so much by arabs through the history, both the vocabularies and adapting arabic script. It doesnt make sense is some aspects. Like we dont have different "z" sounds like in arabic, but we write different "z"s for different words(and pronounce them all the same💀)
As a persian i really like finnish. I like the sound of it and the fact that it's logical(as much a i know) and you read what you right...nice language overall
And i love persian because the same reason you do. Although i hate the part that it has been influenced so much by arabs through the history, both the vocabularies and adapting arabic script. It doesnt make sense is some aspects. Like we dont have different "z" sounds like in arabic, but we write different "z"s for different words(and pronounce them all the same💀)
As for the Arabic writing system, it is very easy to read, write, and distinguish letters. The Arabic writing system is easier than Latin because it is logical, realistic, and does not depend on memory and memorization!! The Arabic language is also very logical and easy. As for the letter ( z ), which you gave as an example, that its sound is similar to the sounds of other letters ( In Farsi language, of course ) , it is as in the English language, as the following letters are similar in pronunciation:
( c ) pronunciation as ( s ), ( k ), ( q ) and ( kh )
( x ) pronunciation as ( ks ) and ( z )
( d ) pronunciation as ( dj ), ( d ) and
( t )
( q ) pronunciation as ( k )
( e ) pronunciation as ( i ) and ( a )
( u ) pronunciation as ( u ), ( a ) and ( i )
( f ) pronunciation as ( ph )
( ch ) pronunciation as ( tsh ), ( k ) and ( sh )
And many more. In fact, the English language showed how bad the Latin script was!!
This is by far one of the best CZcams 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.
WOAH beuna suerte frr! am I the only one who fear ended up being polyglot? I really want to be level C2 in both spanish and english and that's it. I just want to be trilingual and put all my energy in those three langauges (my mother language is arabic) also because I fear forgetting or get a little bit weaker in one of those languages BUT LEARNING LANGAUES IS FUN!
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
széttöredezettségmentesíthetőtlenítetthetőtetlenségtelenítőtlenkedhetőit
@@palzsolt6176 ezt még nem ismertem!
@@palzsolt6176 ellelkáposztásítottalanítottátok
@@amiapsychopat Én se ismertem, pedig én magyar vagyok 😂
@@palzsolt6176
epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydelläänköhänkään
- a word from hungarian's related language, finnish
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.
Yep, a Finnish speaker can understand about 70% of Estonian (or more if you are used to).
I don't. Perhaps a word here and there. But I've heard that understanding Finnish is easier for an Estonian than vice versa,@@frozenmadness
@@Atomisti Well... take this song:
czcams.com/video/BI6ghJMunFc/video.html
It's like
Anna mulle luottamus
anna mulle usko
anna mulle (OK, that's not clear)
ja mitä vaan vielä
anna oma nauru
anna oma viha
fiilikset kaunis
on sinun sisällä
anna meidän piilottaa yhteen paikkaan
anna meidän piilottaa ne yöhön
...
@@frozenmadness lmao not even close, might wanna drop that percentage a lot, it's still wildly different from finnish
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 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!
You’re lucky your gonna be an exchange student I’m in college but I still hope I can lol
I advise you to focus on a different language, either french or arabic.
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
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!
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
Félicitations ! Je apprends français aussi maintenant et je vais apprendre japonais à l’avenir, j’espère que vous serez courant en tous les choses vous apprenez !
@@bbynascarMerci!!
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.
in arabic every letter has 3 different writing styles depending if it’s in the beginning, middle, or end of a word. So you have to multiply by 3
not really while arabic consists of only 28 letters it was academically graded as harder than Chinese the difficulty in Chinese is mainly in intonations which arabic also has for example ذَهَبَ is the verb of went while ذَهب means gold another example is سَبت means saturday and سُبت is a type of plant سِبت is a type of leather and سَّبْتُ means slept سَبَت means a big basket and سَبَتَ meaning varies depending on the subject that comes after it and there are many more different meanings to this single word it changes because of the slight changes done by "harakat" which is very close to intonations the other way chinese is considered harder is in its many alphabets if you even call it that and i agree in that case but you fail to understand that the arabic language is the most complicated language in contrast of its grammar wayy more complicated than chinese and i cant even teach you a basic grammar rule in this comment because it will be turned into a 3 page research a normal speaker couldnt even think of mastering its grammar even counting things has a grammatical rule if you count you have three basic rules the number of things the femininity/masculinity of the object and if its plural or singular for example in english you can say i have 2 apples in arabic you would have to know that the numbers 1 and 2 follows the femininity/ masculinity of the object that follows "apple" in arabic is feminine so it would be "لدي تفاحتين" and if its one it would be "لدي تفاحة" if its three it the opposes the feminine masculine rule also the number alters the word from singular to 2-word form to plural so it would be "لدي ثلاث تفاحات" and if you use a word that is masculine you would change the way you write those numbers so book in arabic is كتاب plural form "books" is كتب and if we want to count it we must rechange it depending on the number so if its 3 we would say كتب but if its 13 it would be كتابًا and if its 2 its كتابين and thats a rule children learn so its not even advanced arabic in chinese it depends on your memorization and less on understanding its concept while arabic is heavily reliant on understanding every and each letter vowel "harakah" etc last example im giving is the basic sentence of James went to school would need a 4 long paragraph to basically dismantle and elaborate
Hello! everyone:
In Standard Arabic Language there are ( 29 ) letters, not ( 28 ).
Everything in Standard Arabic Language has a logical reason that is easy to understand. The shapes of Arabic letters change for a logical reason and Not like the arbitrary change of Latin letters , such as changing ( a ) to ( A ) with " no logical reason " !
Note: The shape of the Arabic letter does not change so much that it is difficult to recognize the letter. Rather, there is a slight change and not like the major change in the Latin letter that I mentioned ( a ) and ( A ). Also, the letters do not change much between handwriting and printing.
no big deal, the shapes follow a pattern and mostly resemble each other, in any case you can learn the alphabet in one day unlike hanzi or kanji, within one day you will learn only a dozen or two of the characters 😁.
logic behind a and A being different is in the register, in the past there were only capital letters, now there are also low case letters. 28 or 29 is debatable, if you consider hamza and alif separate, than 29.
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.
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.
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This Brazilian girl is soooo cute, communicative and smart. Uma fofinha 😘
she's annoying 😂
Why? @@lmnll2742
@@lmnll2742 you're annoying.
@@lmnll2742agree, she interrupted the other speaker so many times, that’s rude
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.
The Finnish sentence pretty means "please read this sentence", which is funny
Fr. It's like "Hey, I have this presentation coming up soon. I'd like someone to join me on the stage. _Could you read this sentence_ there?"
It's similar to the English challenge of "can I" vs "may I", but for "you".
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.
As a Canadian, the no “please” in Korean has taken some time to adjust to. I’ve learnt that the politeness is the please (especially in the 요 (yo) form).
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
I am one of the few people who speaks German, Hungarian and Spanish. A strange combination
I am one of the few peoe who speak Armenian and Yiddish, not being Armenian nor Jewish. So what?
i speak those three as well! i think its rlly cool because it's three languages with different origins so it's interesting to compare them
@@abraxxas2013dude that is so cool! I wish I spoke Yiddish
@@RadiantRiv Learn it!
Yo también, húngaro, italiano, español y alemán 👌
Me interesa mucho el turco 👀
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.
Siinä vähän miettimistä 😊. Something to think about. I think people who say finnish is not difficult don't fully grasp how many alternatives there are.
가가가가가
Then what about Vietnamese, Mongolian, Navajo or Xhosa? And what about our dear old Tibetan friends?
And Basque, any Papua New Guinea languages,any Australian aboriginal languages or Pirahã ?
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.
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.
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 :)
Néha nem értjük meg a magyarul próbálkozó labancokat. 😁
Írhatnál legalább egy példát erre!
Can you change the verb order in Hungarian? Why am I asking, because in Turkish we have Subject+Object+Verb order. We can change them and they still have the same meaning.
You can use SOV(the most common one), SVO, VSO, or VOS. It's up to your imagination. Did you mean that?
@@lacivertcikolata yes, we can change them if we want to emphasize something. let's say we want to say "Everybody got their key." We can say "Mindenki megkapta a kulcsát." (SVO) or "Megkapta a kulcsát mindenki." (VOS)
@@Tibi9424 Actually, in Hungarian it matters a lot what order you use. Because of the topic + verb + everything else structure. And your "Megkapta a kulcsát mindenki" example not really makes sense as a statement, it only would be correct with a questionmark.
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.
The grammar of Japanese and Finnish is completely different.
No one was talking about the grammar@@diamondsarenotforever8542
Oh my god I didn't realize I said "brazilian speaker" OH MY GOD 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 *lowkey panic atack* I'm really not that stupid 🤣🤣🤣
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.
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 💜✌🏻
Navajo sitting in the far, far distance. 👁️👁️
Also counting things in Japanese is very difficult. Depending on the object you have to use different countable words.
Same in Chinese
Same in Korean
you should bring a greek speak
with crete's greek and cypriot greek it would be so fun
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
I feel like learning japanese because I know a lot of words because I hear It every time while watching anime. But the kanji really scares me :")
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 agree with u!
I agree with everything you said except that Japanese has harder grammar than Korean. I've passed the highest level of Japanese proficiency and for me I didn't think Japanese was all that hard. Korean has a lot more complex grammatical systems at the highest level and the irregular conjugations etc are a lot more difficult. To each their own though, best of luck on your journey!
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
If you know Japanese then the Hungarian grammar's logic won't be too hard. Because there are lots of similarities in grammar logic between the two. That's one of the reasons why spoken Japanese is said to be relatively easy for Hungarians to learn (the other reason is pronunciation but that only works if you learn Japanese while knowing Hungarian but not the other way around).
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)
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...😂
also hate that x and sh, and q and ch sound alike to my ears😞
hahaha all this shi are different when they are written
@@hjlee2478 ...spoken language...
No one ever remembers the hardest language to learn for speakers of any language: sign language.
There are differences. American Sign Language tend to follow a topic - comment structure. Verbs inflect for aspect. Both nouns and verbs can be arbitrarily placed in space and need to be remembered. Two concepts can be expressed at the same time. Clause marking can be very subtle.
That's for American. I can't speak about other signed languagrs except I've been told Russian Sign Language word order tend to have the same flexibility as spoken Russian. British Sign Language has very little mutual intelligibility with ASL. Oh, and Spanish Sign Language is only found in Spain.
@@ak5659 - I didn't say that there's only one universal sign language...
@@module79l28 --- Sorry. I didn't mean to imply you did.
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.
She said she didn't know any Mandarin, but her accent is perfect, and the tones are exactly right! Sounds like a native speaker.
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
How is it with the cases in Hungarian, I've read somewhere that in might be even 27 depending on how you count? If you say 19, do you have the same 16 as in Finnish plus 3 more?
@@frozenmadness It depends on what you (as a professor of linguistics) call a case and what you call a derivative suffix. For example, if the usage of a potential "case suffix" is limited to words with a specific meaning, many professors say it is actually a derivative suffix. This is why the Finnish prolative (the alleged 16th case) and the Hungarian temporal (the 19th case) are often not considered as "real" cases.
And no, the Finnish case system is not exactly part of the Hungarian one. Although Finnish has 6 locative cases while Hungarian has 9, Hungarian lacks the abessive case but has essive-modal and essive-formal. Hungarian has the instrumental-comitative case while Finnish doesn't. Finnish has only one essive case but has the partitive case which Hungarian doesn't have. (And this is why Russian(!) negation is so complicated with the usage of genitive (the so-called partitive genitive) because it was influenced by Finno-Ugric languages during its history. Finnish and many other Finno-Ugric languages often use partitive in negative sentences: let us take the sentence "I do not have a book.": "Minu-lla ei ole kirja-a" - I+Adessive NEGVERB is/Participle book-Partitive. Compare to Russian "у меня нет книг-и": at me/ACC is_not book-Genitive. Literal translations: "There's not a single book at/with me." NEGVERB means Finnish uses a negative verb which is conjugated. In Russian, есть ("There _is_") is replaced by "нет" when negated.
@@harczymarczy Thank you very much 👍
How would you rank Cantonese Chinese?
@@tmc02086 Same as Mandarin, maybe even harder because by saying "Chinese" you mean "Mandarin Chinese" in most cases. It's way harder to find learning material for Cantonese than for Mandarin if you want to learn it. I did not find _any_ commercial material for Cantonese in Hungary, maybe the Department of Chinese Studies in Budapest has some (text)books.
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.
What I find interesting is that it's exactly what you'd get if you turned a sentence written in English order 90 degrees to the right-- the lines would run up-down and the paragraphs would go right-left.
Our manchurian writing system is also vertical. 😊
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).
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.
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.
Swedes typically struggle more with Danish than Norwegian. Ultimately it comes down to how much exposure you have to the language. Norwegians typically have a lot more exposure to Swedish than the other way around. This is due to geography. And as you say Norwegian has bokmål. I have to correct you that this is not a version of Norwegian, it is just one of two writing standards. There's only one Norwegian language, although with many dialects. Bokmål is based on Danish writing language and this might help somewhat for them to understand Danish better. However once again I think it comes down to that they have more exposure to Danish.
Hungarian and Finnish and Estonian are some of the easier languages, actually, so I don’t even understand why ppl keep including them on hardest languages lists, when they are among the easiest ones and should be on easy languages lists instead, being category 2 languages that use normal letters that are easy to read with a category 1 pronunciation and words that are way easier to memorize than most other languages that are category 4 to category 10, and just because they are agglutinative languages, doesn’t make them hard, just different!
Besides, grammar is not hard or easy, and is a very necessary part of the language, without which the sentences wouldn’t sound right, and, just because one doesn’t understand how the grammar of a new language works, doesn’t make that language objectively hard, plus languages with proper grammar and different pretty word endings are way easier and way more logical than languages with poor grammar such as Chinese which is a category 10 language with impossible characters and tonal pronunciation and short words that look and sound the same that are impossible to differentiate!
Hungarian is an Ugric language and it is similar to Turkish, but it is like the pretty version of Turkish, while Finnish and Estonian are completely different, and the only similarity is that they are all agglutinative languages and they indirectly come from the same Proto language!
The hardest languages ever are the Chinese languages (category 10) and Japanese (category 9.5 language) and Korean and Arabic and Farsi (category 9 languages) and Thai / Vietnamese (category 8 languages) and other similar languages and other languages with odd sounds or languages with tones and mostly short words that sound the same that are impossible to differentiate or languages with odd writing systems that are hard to read and to get used to, and, all languages that have mostly non-pretty words are also naturally very hard to memorize and take way more repetitions than pretty and distinctive words, as one naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster!
In addition, all ppl must be addressed the same way, since all ppl are just avrg citizens, not some special being that must be addressed in special ways, and special words and special pronouns are only meant for me the special / superior being aka The Leader, so Korean and all other languages that misuse such terms need to drop that ‘politeness’ ns, which doesn’t even make sense, anyway!
While the Germanic languages English / Dutch / Norwegian / Icelandic / Norse / Faroese / East Norse / Danish / Greenlandic Norse / Swedish / Gothic / Luxembourgish / German / Limburgish / West-Vlaamse / Twents / PlatDeitsch / Old English / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Middle English etc are the easiest languages ever created, in every way, as they have the most organized aspect and the most logical spelling rules and pronunciation rules and grammar and the prettiest and most distinctive words that take very few repetitions to become part of the permanent memory and automatic memory and the coolest and most modern sounds and diphthongs etc, and then these four modern Celtic languages Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Manx which are category 1 languages that also have mostly gorgeous words that are comparable to the heavenly Germanic words, and then the Latin languages Galician / Latin / Portuguese / Italian / Gallo / Occitan / Venetian / Spanish / Friulian / Aranese / Ladin / Catalan / Sardinian / Esperanto / Pretarolo / Guernsey / Sicilian / Walloon / Neapolitan and the other Italic languages, and then Slovene and Hungarian which are both mid category 2 languages, and then Irish and Scottish Gaelic which are category 3 languages with almost only pretty words, and then Finnish / Latvian / Estonian which are category 2 languages with mostly pretty and neutral words - in general, the Celtic languages and the Latin languages are almost as easy to learn as the Germanic languages as they are very similar!
This Brazilian girl is so beautiful
well I speak russian german english and japanese fluently... can some how french spanish chinese a little bit more working now on korean
I wanna give the brazilian girl a big hug.
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! 😃
Greetings from Cairo Egypt 🇪🇬
Sou do Brasil e o seu país né fascina....seria uma honra conhecer...sua história, seus mistérios, sua escrita antiga.
@@eduardosantos5078 gracias
مرحباً، مصر جميلة جداً، أحب بلدك. انا من البرازيل ❤❤❤
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.
But even if you speak Thai with incorrect tones you will still be understood. Learn the tones to sound less foreign. Incorrect tones are the verbal equivalent of a spelling mistaken. English whilst not formally a tonal language is when spoken tonal: get the tones wrong and you sound foreign.
BORA BRASILLL!!
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 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 =/
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.
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.
Fala português?
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 😂
Hai iniziato a studiare il coreano li o già in Italia? Vorrei davvero impararlo ma non so dove iniziare
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
Korean and Japanese are not equally challenging. She can’t read “read” but she’s an expert on the language?
I respect people that can speak several languages like they breathe. For me, you are the real ones!
Finland and Iceland are Nordic, while Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are Scandinavian.
Then again, it depends on who you ask…
Yeah, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland are Nordic countries and they languages are Nordic and they belong to Germanic languages. BUT Finland also belongs to Nordic countries and Finnish belongs to Finno-Ugric languages. Sami and Karelian also belong to Finno-Ugric languages. Different Sami languages are spoken in norhern parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway. And there is also little group of Karelian speakers in Finland. So, Finno-Ugric languagues are also Nordic.
Like I said, depends who you ask.
Then who are the Scandinavians?
@@fischer-3934 Finland is a Nordic country culturally, politically, economically, religiously, culturally and geographically.
The language and the race are two different matters in Finland's case. The only difference between Scandinavia and Finland is that Finland has most ppl with blue eyes and blond hair.
Nordic is the geographical location. Scandinavian is the culture for example: Finland,, Denmark Norway, Sweden are nordic countries. Scandinavian countries are Iceland, Faroe Island, Sweden, Norway, Denmark.
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)
Spanish is relatively easy
It depends on your native language actually
So which five or six languages do they speak exactly? When it’s evident that they haven’t fully grasped the languages appeared in the video.
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.
Aren't there any languages in VOS word order??
@@aqua3890 I checked on this, and there are a few, apparently, but they're quite obscure from most people's perspectives. Several are dead languages, I believe.
the Algonquian family (including Ojibwa)
the Arawakan family (including Baure and Terêna)
the Austronesian family (including Dusun, Malagasy, Toba Batak, Tukang Besi, Palauan, Gilbertese, Fijian and Tsou)
the Chumash family (including Inoseño Chumash)
the Mayan family (including Huastec, Yucatec, Mopán, Lacondón, Chol, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Chuj, Tojolabal, Cakchiquel, Tzutujil, Sacapultec, Pocomam, Pocomchí and Kekchi)
the Otomanguean family (including Mezquital Otomi and Highland Otomi)
the Salishan family (including Coeur d'Alene and Twana)
@@ChrisM-tn3hx Cool!! :)
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.
-_- No.
I will never understand why some people try to deny our languages, when they are clearly different and beautiful. I love all the Arabic languages including classic Arabic and the artificial MSA too.
@@Instruisto31
Classic Arabic and MSA are the same thing.
Dialects Unfounded!
As an Arab, colloquials arabic are obnoxious, ugly and extremely provocative. For me personally, they are the dialects of ignorant, illiterate, and rude people who love to harm others ( Sadists and Masochists ).
Those dialects are full of obscenity and impoliteness, and their voices are harsh and rude. No noble, educated person with high morals likes those dialects. We, as Arabs, classify those dialects as ( Vulgar / Rude speech ). Even when I want to know the meaning of a particular word in the arabic dialect, I return it to its STANDARD ORIGIN ( The Arabic Standard Language is pretty, quite, polite, scientific, poetic and systematic ). So dialects are useless. It is always known that Standard is easier than colloquial.
Note: Standard Arabic Language existed before existence itself.
Dialects Unfounded!
As an Arab, colloquials arabic are obnoxious, ugly and extremely provocative. For me personally, they are the dialects of ignorant, illiterate, and rude people who love to harm others ( Sadists and Masochists ).
Those dialects are full of obscenity and impoliteness, and their voices are harsh and rude. No noble, educated person with high morals likes those dialects. We, as Arabs, classify those dialects as ( Vulgar / Rude speech ). Even when I want to know the meaning of a particular word in the arabic dialect, I return it to its STANDARD ORIGIN ( The Arabic Standard Language is pretty, quite, polite, scientific, poetic and systematic ). So dialects are useless. It is always known that Standard is easier than colloquial.
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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.
Thanks for the detailed explanation, I always wondered that if in fact the dialects weren't intelligible then why they weren't called languages. It is clear now that there's a misconception.
@@CrisOnTheInternet
It is - it started out as a meme, but some people got confused, and started thinking it was true.
It is a complicated situation, as I realize that to most other people it is one country and one language, but that is not a thing for us.
The standard Arabic hasn't been updated in more than 1400 years, but languages naturally change and develop, and that's how these dialects emerged. However, all these dialects take words and grammar structure from the standard Arabic.
We haven't abandoned our standard Arabic either - it is used in academic and formal settings, scientific research, the news and media, and some religious people who want to sound sophisticated.
It just feels awkward to speak it all the time in informal situations - it is like using very big words and complex grammar while texting your friend, it feels just out of place, but if you are a learner, it is perfectly okay. People understand, and it sounds cute, much cuter than the regional dialects anyway.
@@WildwildmintTHERE'S A GOD WHO LOVES YOU! FATHER GOD LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU CAN EVER IMAGINE!!!!!! HE LOVES YOU!!!! JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU!!! HOLY SPIRIT LOVES YOU!!!! PLEASE SEEK GOD OUT WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART AND YOU WILL FIND HIM AND HE WILL SHOW AND REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU!!!!! JUST ASK HIM!!!! PRAY AND ASK JESUS INTO YOUR HEART!!!!!! HE CAN HEAL YOU OF ALL YOUR ANXIETY AND PAIN AND ILLNESS AND MAKE YOU WHOLE AGAIN IN JESUS!!!! HE LOVES YOU!!!! DO IT QUICKLY PRAY AND ASK JESUS INTO YOUR HEART!!!!!! YOU CAN DO IT BECAUSE JESUS MADE THE WAY THROUGH HIM IN HIS PERFECT LIFE ON EARTH TO FULFILL THE LAW AND COMMANDMENTS OF GOD THE FATHER AND HIS SHEDDING OF HIS BLOOD AND DEATH UPON THE CROSS TO ATONE FOR ALL OUR SINS AND FOR ALL OUR PERFECT COMPLETE HEALING IN SPIRIT, SOUL, MIND, AND BODY OF US ALL INCLUDING YOU; AND BY CHRIST JESUS RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD BY THE POWER OF GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT TO DEFEAT THE DEVIL'S POWER OVER DEATH SO THAT WE MAY ALL HAVE NO LONGER NEED TO FEAR DEATH AND GOING TO HELL FOR IN CHRIST JESUS WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IN HIM CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR OF NOT JUST US BUT THE WHOLE WORLD ALL MANKIND!!!!
SO DON'T BE AFRAID DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE EXACT WORDS YOU SHOULD SAY BUT JUST PRAY AND ASK GOD CHRIST JESUS INTO YOUR HEART!!!! JUST SAY IT AND MEAN IT FROM THE HEART WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART "GOD JESUS IF YOU ARE REAL REVEAL YOURSELF TO ME SO THAT I MAY KNOW IN MY HEART OF HEARTS THAT YOU EXIST AND THAT YOU ARE REAL AND LOVE IN THE NAME OF JESUS I ASKED AND PRAY AND DECLARE AND DECREE THIS LORD GOD! AMEN AMEN!!! HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!! IN JESUS'S NAME!!!!!!!"😇✝️❤️🙌👏🙏👍🙂😊👍🙌❤️✝️😇
@@Wildwildmint I'm curious how well this spills over into other Semitic languages. Can you understand Syriac? What about Tigrinya? I'm guessing those would be pretty hard but maybe you'd pick up a word here or there?
Dialects Unfounded!
As an Arab, colloquials arabic are obnoxious, ugly and extremely provocative. For me personally, they are the dialects of ignorant, illiterate, and rude people who love to harm others ( Sadists and Masochists ).
Those dialects are full of obscenity and impoliteness, and their voices are harsh and rude. No noble, educated person with high morals likes those dialects. We, as Arabs, classify those dialects as ( Vulgar / Rude speech ). Even when I want to know the meaning of a particular word in the arabic dialect, I return it to its STANDARD ORIGIN ( The Arabic Standard Language is pretty, quite, polite, scientific, poetic and systematic ). So dialects are useless.
It is always known that Standard is easier than colloquial.
@CrisOnTheInternet
Hey brazil girl, if youre reading this, Vary is pronounce like VAH-ree
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
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.
That's because German does it too
@@Zara____ not exactly, german has the verb on the second place in a sentence. Some verbs are split, so one part is at position 2 and the other part is at the end of the sentence maybe because of that I'm used to it.
I highly recommend learning the prettiest and most refined / poetic / magical languages ever Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Danish / Faroese etc, which are way too pretty not to know, and other gorgeous languages like Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic and Hungarian and Galician / Latin / Gallo / Catalan / Venetian etc and Slovene etc, instead of Korean etc - I highly recommend learning the pretty languages to a native speaker level at least, and it’s even better to learn them to a writer level, and, technically, one must learn over 10.000 base words automatically to get to a native speaker level in a language, which takes a few years of regular and constant éxpòsure to the language and a lot of watching and rewatching of vocab videos with hundreds and thousands of words and learning many lyrics in the target languages and watching every video and movie with subs in the target languages etc, and one can learn multiple / many pretty and easy languages at the same time, which includes all the languages on my list, as they are all category 1 and category 2 languages, except for Irish and Scottish Gaelic which are the only category 3 languages on my list, and, one can get to a fluent level in a few years in most of them if one is learning them 2gether, which is the most efficient way to learn languages, just like I do, as I am learning 15+ languages at the moment, which is a lot of fun!
By the way, my current levels are...
- upper intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / German
- writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish
- upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian
- intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian / Welsh
- beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene
- total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / Urkers / Hunsrik / East Norse / Ruhrpöttisch / Alemannic / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Pälzische Deutsch / Austrian German / Waddisch / Palatine German / Westföälsk Sassisk / Austro-Bavarian / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / Sognamål / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Yiddish / Afrikaans / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc)
(I highly recommend learning Dutch / Icelandic + Norse + Faroese / Norwegian as they are so magical, as pretty / refined / poetic as English - all other Germanic and the other pretty languages on my list are also gorgeous, so they are all a great option!)
English literally has the easiest the most flexible word orders ever, without fixed rules or fixed word orders, only preferred word orders, so English doesn’t have a rigid and fixed word order like German and Dutch, so I don’t see how could one be struggling with the word orders in English - could je give some examples of English word orders that je’re struggling with? Technically, one can use any word order in English, even though the subject / verb / object word order is the most preferred word order in general!
Polish is pretty difficult. Surprised it was not there
russian also it s also pretty damn hard
@@banana53358once you learn the Cyrillic alphabet it's a bit less hard. Polish looks hard even using the Latin alphabet.
@@littleturnip99Slavic languages are much more natural in Cyrillic. Of course Poles and Croats will protest, but it's quite obvious that you wouldn't need all those accents if Latin script was meant for Slavic.
i was learning korean for 4 semesters. OMG their exams are brutal. All that time was super stressful and i decided to stop.
The Japanese sentence for test may be have some error( I'm only entry level, not quite sure) , it should be ended with できますか。Also, Chinese book layout can also be in up to down and right to left, like the Japanese books, but mostly in Taiwan and Hong Kong where Traditional Chinese is used or in ancient books.
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.
Yeah but then again for example finland swedish sounds very different and it is easier to pronounce and that is one way to pronounce swedish like native speakers. I think that many finns can learn to pronounce it perfectly cause that dialect doesn't have the intonation.
@@emilielaurenThe Finland Swedes I have encountered do have pitch accent, which is what I assume you mean when you say intonation. To me Finland Swedish sounds like a continuation of the dialect in eastern Svealand with many common dialectal features that aren't found in Sweden outside of eastern Svealand. Though most Finland Swedes I've met where from Åland. But if there are dialectical variation in Finland where some dialects have turned to a Finnish-like direction then that's them speaking broken Swedish where many different words now would be pronounced as the same word, like Chinese without tones.
But the Swedish alphabet doesn't require pitch accent to be pronounced. Sweden have many Finnish immigrant but there are still no adult Finns who move to Sweden who learn to sound native, regardless of pitch accent.
@@user-ek2ty2ot8s Here is an example of finland swedish dialect (I think that people living in Åland pronounce more in "swedish swedish" way so they do have the pitch accent)
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As u can hear there is no pitch accent in that dialect and the sounds are pronounced differently. And to make clear, this man Alexander Stubb is a native speaker. In Finland there are some totally swedish speaking regions. (Half of my own family is swedish speaking...) but yeah there is no pitch accent and it isn't that melodic than swedish spoken in Sweden. And it is not broken swedish😅 it is a real dialect
And yeah the original point was that I have met many native finnish speakers who have learnt to sound native swedish speakers cause the finland swedish accent is rythmically and melodically very similar to finnish (even though there isn't anything else similar)
Och dom talar finlandsvenska i Mumin... om du har tittat på den. Eller åtminstone i de avsnitten som jag har sett talar man finlandsvenska
Brazilian and Belgian are really difficult for me.
In Brazil, we speak portuguese because Portugal descovered and colonizeted it.
Troll 😂
It would be interesting to do the same video but with Asian (Middle East, South Asian, and East Asian) and polyglots.
It's extremely rare to find someone who would say that English is difficult in this kind of conversation, but I think it is difficult.This is because English does have almost no case declensions or verb conjugations, but the spelling and pronunciation aren't same, and there are many consonants and vowels that do not correspond at all.
Also, the pronunciation is very complicated, as it sometimes differs between the strong and weak forms.
It is also difficult to me to differentiate between "there is" and "have" syntax, and "exists" and "is" syntax.Another difficult part is that both verbs and nouns have many irregular changes.
And It is theoretically incomprehensible that definite articles are not used in people's and place names.
Overall, there are too many exceptions.
I speak Portuguese and Japanese, and I'm currently learning Polish, but I don't think Polish is that difficult.
Im from Finland and finnish are really hard😢
I'm trying to learn Finnish, my boyfriend is from there. Can you reccomend me some beautiful Finnish movies or series? 😊 I want to surprise him by speaking Finnish 😅
@@humeyrag.muumilaakson tarinoita! the 2d 90s version is the best
@@amele_2 Thank you, I will watch it 🤗
I've been told Polish was one of the hardest languages, because of its grammar.
My native language is polish I think it depends what country ur from cuz for Russians or Czechs etc it will be rlly easy
Slavic languages in General are very hard, I believe that Russian is the hardest, but Poles will believe it’s Polish, Czechs think it’s Czech, so I’ll just say all Slavic languages are hard 😅
@@vladm5920 That probably also explains why each of them find it easier to pick up the other 2.
Polish grammar is not much harder than any other Slavic grammar. I’m a Spaniard and I learnt Russian in Germany and I think people exaggerate. It’s not that hard
Because of its grammar? 😂😂
It is an Indo-European language! Nothing special to worry about. Because of the grammatical cases?
Mm there are many other European languages with grammatical genders , grammatical cases, perfect and imperfect aspect of the verbs etc.
Polish is similar to Slovakian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian etc.
Im struggling so much with Korean... HELP.
It's funny that those two women are so different in maturity while speaking. The one on the left speaks almost like a young teenager while the one on the right speaks like a grown up woman.
Pretty sure there's an age gap.
Maturity or personality? I found one more extroverted.
They don’t look the same age,, plus they are different people and have different personalities
So speaking 5 languages (3 poorly) qualifies you as a polyglot now? Lowering the bar, are we?
Come on everyone can be one. Just learn few basic phrases and you are a polyglot 🎉
she speaks 5 fluently, watch other videos
*Great! Currently am learning Arabic 🇸🇦 dan Korean 🇰🇷. Am so grateful. Thank you for sharing about top most difficult languages in the world! ☕🍹*
The Chinese sentence they are talking about may be this: 马慢，妈妈骂马 (The horse is too slow, so the mother scolds the horse)
What do you think of the N. Sami language?
Asian languages will always be the most difficult.
The Hungarian-Finnish-Estonian are brother nations😊❤
Not quite. Finland is a Nordic country and was never a communist country.
@@diamondsarenotforever8542 Finnish-Hungarian-Estonian not politican brothers😄 we are family ! Huns/Hungarians/Suomi(finnish)/Estonian - We are real "Blood Brothers"
We are about 10-15 000 years old
@@janosveres3763 I heard that hungarians think finns are not related to them at all. Maybe they are right. I met a lot of hungarians and their culture is completely different and really beautiful. Also their cooking is very different and much better than finnish.
@@diamondsarenotforever8542 Yes! because some 3-5,000 years ago a part of us separated and went north-west! They became the Estonians and the Finns! You should also know that Finland was a Swedish colony for 300 years! A lot changes in that time:)
@@diamondsarenotforever8542 We Hungarians came to Europe 1200 years ago! The Huns who are also us 500 years earlier led by Attilla! We still saw the "last days" of the Roman Empire
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!
None of those 3 are alphabets. 2 of them a syllabary (hiragana/katakana), and the 3rd is logographic writing. Which means, the chinese characters in the language are actually vocabulary and not an alphabet.
@@tovarishcheleonora8542 But like an alphabet, they are all sets of written symbols which you can write to express a language.
@@thefantasyreview8709 No, they are not alphabets.
An alphabet is a series of characters that represent 1sound per character. While Japanese writing usually represent 2 or more sounds with a single character.
And in fact, the correct name for hiragana/katakana is "syllabary", while the correct name for kanji is "logographic writing".
Their writing system does not use any kind of alphabet at all. Even if you can't accept it.
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...
i spek brasiliano
As someone who is currently learning
a regional arabic dialect and started learning al fusha (standard arabic) before. I can say the dialect are way easier. 😂 The grammar of al fusha is crazy.
Take it from me as someone whose mother tongue is Arabic:
Dialects Unfounded!
As an Arab, colloquials arabic are obnoxious, ugly and extremely provocative.
For me personally, they are the dialects of ignorant, illiterate, and rude people who love to harm others ( Sadists and Masochists ).
Those dialects are full of obscenity and impoliteness, and their voices are harsh and rude.
No noble, educated person with high morals likes those dialects.
We, as Arabs, classify those dialects as ( Vulgar / Rude speech ).
Even when I want to know the meaning of a particular word in the arabic dialect, I return it to its STANDARD ORIGIN ( The Arabic Standard Language is pretty, quite, polite, scientific, poetic and systematic ).
So dialects are useless.
It is always known that Standard is easier than colloquial.
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.
Doesn't it depend on what other languages you speak?
I did Spanish for two months and I can already hold a conversation in a restaurant.
I have been doing Arabic for six months and boooy, the rules are so intricate. This is probably the hardest language I have encountered.
Because everything in arabic so intricate, so rich, the Quran was revealed in that language. I highly recommend you read it, even better if you get more proficient in arabic but translating is good also
Brasil sendo muito bem representado no World Friends 🤎🤎
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
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…