The hardest language in the world is
Japanese.
Absolutely.
Definitely.
100%.
Uh, yeah?
But, have you studied Arabic?
Arabic is way harder than Japanese.
Hah. Whatever!
You guys haven't even studied
the language of the Ndebele tribe
or their fertility vase.
Stop!
Just stop.
Today we're gonna settle it once and for all.
We're gonna talk about
the World's Most Difficult Language.
So, first of all
we need to define what makes a language difficult.
Well...
This is not an easy question to answer.
Chances are this depends on quite a few things.
Your native language,
the languages that you already know,
how well you already know these languages,
how closely related the language you want to learn is related to your native language...
[Gibberish]
Do you get my point here?
This question is always gonna depend
so much on our individual situations
that we just can't come up with a straight answer.
And besides, Japanese, Arabic
and the language of the Ndebele tribe
(Did you get the Mean Girls reference there?)
have all been learnt successfully by entire populations
that speak that language from birth.
Well... not from birth.
They learn it from birth.
But, you know what I mean.
But, of course, I'm not saying that every language is easy.
Heck no!
Things like cases, verb conjugations,
prepositions, postpositions, particles,
writing systems...
These things will always vary between different languages
and they will always be something that you have to learn.
And equally, when comes to answering the question of
'What is the easiest language learn in the world?'
It depends on all of those factors
that we discussed a minute ago.
Your age, your native languages,
the languages you already know, etc., etc., etc.
So, is a language easy or is it difficult?
It's not that clean cut.
It never is.
Now this isn't to say
that some languages take more study for
most people than others. Okay?
And I still say most people here, because of course,
if you know a language that's related to
one of those 'more difficult' languages then...
It's gonna take you less time to learn that language. Right?
But...
Just... can we end the debate?
Can we just stop with the Facebook posts, and the whatevers about
'What is the most difficult language to learn?'
[Sigh]
If you want to learn a language then
there maybe things that take your time,
that take your effort,
that take more time or more effort than another language might,
but if you really wanna learn it
then it's gonna happen.
Personally, for me,
German was the hardest language that I think I've ever learnt.
And that's not because German is inherently difficult or because,
you know, I mean, I speak English as my native language.
This is a Germanic language.
This shouldn't have been as difficult as it was.
But, it was.
Because before that, I'd studied Romance languages
and I studied a bit of Chinese, but
I was expecting that to be 'harder', right?
Quote, unquote here.
However, take me out of that situation.
What if I was a Dutch native speaker
learning German at school?
What if I grew up in Luxembourg
speaking French and Luxembourgish?
German would have been a lot easier for me
in both of those situations.
And this can be applied to any language.
It's never clean cut.
It's never a straight-forward answer when it comes to
'What is the most difficult language to learn?' or,
'What is the easiest language to learn?'
So, please!
My point is here is don't worry.
If you've ever felt put off from learning a language
because someone said it was difficult.
Mm-mm. [Shakes head]
Don't.
Give it a go.
Try.
What's the worst that could happen?
Study what you want or need and if that means
a language that is quote-unquote 'difficult' then don't worry.
Do it and enjoy it.
There will be something to balance out that
'difficultness' compared to other languages.
It might just be a little bit difficult to find the easy thing...
Nah, I'm kidding!
Now I know, I know...
I've just snubbed this off as an impossible question to answer.
But, what do you think?
Is there a language that is the 'most difficult language to learn' in the world?
Let me know in the comment below.
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I will see you very soon. Thanks. Bye!
[To Offscreen] That was the Mean Girls jokes. D'you get that?
[From Offscreen] I got that, that was cool. Yes!
Four for you Glen Coco.
You go, Glen Coco!