Which foreign language most difficult to learn?
Baku, March 28 (AZERTAC). Many of those who study foreign languages wonder which language is the most difficult one in the world. Linguists say that there is no precise answer to this questions because everything depends on which language you speak. Neurophysiologists believe, though, that the Chinese or the Arabic could be described as world`s most difficult languages. The brain of native Chinese or Arab speakers may find it difficult to perceive those languages.
Specialists of linguistics say that complications in learning a foreign language depend on the language carried by the person who studies a foreign language. For example, the Russian language, which is generally considered to be one of the hardest in the world, will not be very hard to learn for Ukrainians or the Czechs. However, a Turkish or a Japanese student may never be able to study Russian - they may find it incredibly hard to learn.
From the point of view of affinity, the Basque language - Euskara - can be considered one of the hardest languages in the world to learn. This language is not connected with any other language group, not matter live or dead.
The Guinness Book of World Records gives another example - the Chippewa. This is a dialect of Ojibwe - an Indian tribe in Canada and the USA. There is also the Haida - an Indian tribal language in the north-west of North America. The Tabasaran - a native language for an ethnic group in Dagestan is also extremely difficult, along with the Eskimo and Chinese languages.
he Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages are considered the world`s most difficult languages from the point of view of written language. In Japan, for example, children study for 12 years. A half of this time is devoted to only two subjects: the Japanese language and mathematics. To leave school, Japanese students have to pass exams that test their knowledge of 1,850 hieroglyphs. To read a newspaper article, a Japanese person needs to know at least 3,000 hieroglyphs.
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