2 Polyglots Share Ranks Top 6 Most Difficult Languages in the World!!

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🇧🇪 Jolien @jolib_
🇧🇷 Julia @juliagulacsi

[mikrokupu]

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.

[viljaminieminen]

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

[andyhorvath]

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 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 …

[엘든링은내인생갓겜]

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.

[hailhummus]

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"

[FoodElitist]

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.

[zsuzsannahiczko]

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<3

[aels.oficial]

This is by far one of the best YouTube 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.

[IQUITTEDTHISACC-]

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

[Charl_es]

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

[viljanov]

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 )

[Martinfinite]

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...

[amiapsychopat]

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

[attilaosztopanyi]

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.

[jxhl]

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.

[maella_c]

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!

[edmann]

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.

[rogdarorfod]

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.

[katekurtz]

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!

[AlfredoJoséPatiñoMedina]

Julia is so fun and cute. I like her. She has a very deep understanding of the languages and feels comfortable speaking. I like how she spress her thoughts in a wonderful way and how her voice sounds. I love you Julia. ❤