What is the most difficult language (to learn it) ? (land, Korean)

[liebknecht]

Originally Posted by Ryuji

Interesting question!

Chinese characters used in Mainland China are called Simplified Chinese Characters (简体字), and those in Taiwan, Hongkong or Macau are called Traditional Chinese Characters (繁體字 or 正體字).

While it is easier for SCC users to read TCC, it is harder for SCC users to write TCC

Let's compare 让(SCC) to 讓(TCC).

There are many clues in 讓 for SCC users to guess what the character is, however, there are too many strokes in 讓 to write it

There are too less clues in 让 for TCC users to guess, however, it's much easier to write 让 than 讓

Similar examples: 办(SCC) vs 辦(TCC), 沪(SCC) vs 滬(TCC), 无(SCC) vs 無(TCC)

BTW, there are three variations to a specific character sometimes: 经(SCC), 經(TCC), 経(Japanese)

Thanks, wow that's really complicated.

Personally I think traditional characters look alot prettier than simplified

[Thomas R.]

My computer currently isn't set up to display either one. What little I learned was simplified though.

[alexgh90]

I think the most difficult language is Greek. End of story.

[aman20]

I would say German is pretty difficult, but not for pronunciation. What makes it hard is you have to remember different cases (which control the articles, adj. endings, respective pronouns, etc.), sentence order, and verb conjugations.

Though I guess this would go for any langauge with similar grammar as German.

[aman20]

Originally Posted by aman20

I would say German is pretty difficult, but not for pronunciation. What makes it hard is you have to remember different cases (which control the articles, adj. endings, respective pronouns, etc.), sentence order, and verb conjugations.

Though I guess this would go for any langauge with similar grammar as German.

p.s. I'm not saying it's the MOST difficult--just that it is difficult.

[moskiter]

Hungarian is extremely hard to learn, Polish (for non-Slavs), other Slavic probably too...

[Thomas R.]

That makes sense as Hungarian is one of the few non-Indo-European languages in Europe. It's somewhat related to Finnish, also not IE, but I'm not sure it's even for Finns either.

In that thinking Basque should be difficult as it's not related to anything except other forms of Basque. Although I've heard some argue it's not as difficult as claimed.

[Ryuji]

Originally Posted by liebknecht

Personally I think traditional characters look alot prettier than simplified

Hehehe... How about 囧? Looks like a face, doesn't it?

Originally Posted by Thomas R.

My computer currently isn't set up to display either one. What little I learned was simplified though.

What kind of OS are you using? I thought all modern OS had the ability

Simplified ones are simple and good. Traditional ones are beautiful and good

[Ryuji]

Originally Posted by Thomas R.

That makes sense as Hungarian is one of the few non-Indo-European languages in Europe. It's somewhat related to Finnish, also not IE, but I'm not sure it's even for Finns either.

I guess so too. Both languages are originally from Mongolia, just like Turkish.

Originally Posted by Thomas R.

In that thinking Basque should be difficult as it's not related to anything except other forms of Basque. Although I've heard some argue it's not as difficult as claimed.

I've heard that too. A Japanese guy who lived there told me that Basque was not that difficult.

[djbuzzard]

Portuguese is another hard one to crack, IMO...