What language has the most complex grammar in the world?

What language is hardest to learn?

• Or rather, I should ask, why do people think that English is the hardes language to learn? Why cuz the spelling is about 80% phonetic? Or maybe because one word has 3 meanings (better yet, three different words are spelled the same cuz of the leveling from old english like bat (animal), bat (thing), and bat [an eyelash] (verb)?), like in any language (case in point Castilian [aka spanish] adjective rata stingy/tightfisted, noun miser/stingy/devil/tightwad/rate/ratio/p… animal rat), basically, every language is equally hard and equally easy. Because all children learn their native language or even 6 native languages if you're an aborigional from Australia, with ease, they're all about the same. Now picking up a language is another matter, it depends on the situation, motivation of learner, and other factors, which may make it seem hard. And if this doesn't make a believer out of people that believe English is the hardest language on Earth, please check out these links to compare the conjugation of to be in modern English, German, etc When, if you do, look at the conjugations, and the conjugation of to look in English, notice how you don't change the form exept maybe 4 times look, looks, looking looked, whereas a language like latin does it 170 times. http://www.verbix.com/languages/oldenglish/beon http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/English/be (look up look also for english) http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/Spanish/ser http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/Spanish/estar http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/Asturian/ser http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/Asturian/estar http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/Galician/ser http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/Galician/estar http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/Catalan/ser (ésser) http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/Latin/esse And if my examples don't convert you to realizing that English is not the hardest language in the world, look at the verb conjugations and compare. And one more thing, Spanish, Galician, and Asturian, and a couple other related languages have two different ways of saying to be, ser and estar, Old English had three (not early modern english, aka shakespearian english) beon, wesan, sindon (which merged into today's to be). Hope this educates and changes some minds to realize that spelling (which is separate from grammar), different meanings, and pronunciation a hard or difficult language do not make. Although if you have anything to show me that English is a hard language I welcome it, but the grammar is pretty simple so it'd take some pretty big evidence. I'd also like to add that there's no gramatical gender, Latin and German have three (masculine, femenine, and neuter), the romance languages as far as I know just have two (m/f). The nouns conjugate only for singular and plural, cat/s vs Spanish gato/gata/gatos/gatas., the adjectives have only one form, and they don't have to agree with the noun, red water, red waters, red car, red cars vs Spanish agua roja, aguas rojas, coche rojo, coches rojos. And get this, no declensions, that little annoying thing in German called case, each latin noun had 6 cases (sometimes 7), 3 genders, and two numbers(singular/plural), where as english has no cases, no genders, 2 numbers. And if none of that convinces you maybe this will: Depending on where and how you use it in a sentence, red water or red waters will translate to any of the six forms shown, same for red state or states or even fodder, i had to find a neuter noun. feminine red water red waters aqua russa aquae russae aquae russae aquarum russarum aquae russae aquis russis aquam russam aquas russas aqua russa aquis russis aqua russa aquae russae masculine red state red states status russus status russi status russi statuum russorum statui russo statibus russis statum russum status russos statu russo statibus russis status russe status russi neuter red fodder red fodders pabulum russum pabula russa pabuli russi pabulorum russorum pabulo russo pabulis russis pabulum russum pabula russa pabulo russo pabulis russis pabulum russum pabula russa And English today is a farcry from Old English, much more complicated. And hey where one language is hard another one is easy and vice versa. So after all that is English the hardest language, I think not, and besides all languages are about even, I mean look at the English/Latin comparasons, even as complicated as it is, there is a patter to follow (and that's including the fact that there are 5 maybe 6 classes with different setups each, i used just one.) So is english the hardest language, thou tellest me. Ok, I'm done, I hope ye (y'all) learn something, good night.

• Answer:

  It depends form which region you come from. For example for Italian it is easier to learn German, French, Spanish and other Latin based languages, but they will find it difficult to learn Chinese or any other oriental languages. Same applies to Korean or Japanese and other in this region, they will find it easy to learn Chinese and other languages from the region but they will find it difficult to learn Latin based languages. But to me practice makes a man perfect, if you practice any language of the world naturally you will learn it. And if you are really serious then you have to go the place where people speak language you try to learn. So the difficult is relative term so far as languages are concerned. I am learning Spanish and all you required to learn is skill to conjugate the verbs. But so much of conjugation of verbs is not there in English. So i think difficulty in learning the language is relative term but then it is practice which will make you learn anything in the world.