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View Poll Results: What is the hardest language?
English (Brittish Isles, USA) 7 19.44%
French (France, Quebeck province, handful of Islands) 1 2.78%
German (Germany, Sweeden, a few other places like Denmark) 0 0%
Chinese (China) 13 36.11%
Japanese (Japan, few Russian islands) 1 2.78%
Russian (Russia, former republics of USSR) 5 13.89%
Arabic (throughout the middle east and Africa) 4 11.11%
Icelandic (Iceland) 4 11.11%
Numee (Kwenyi people of New Caledonia) 0 0%
Hebrew 1 2.78%
Finnish (Finland) 0 0%
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Re: The Hardest Language

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Here I would like to site another answer that isn't included in the poll above:

Body Language.
Easy to speak, very difficult to understand, specially if the speaker is female.
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Re: The Hardest Language

I'm learning (slowly) ancient Egyptian.... figured it would be a cool thing to add to my resumee
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Re: The Hardest Language

This post migh be interresting: Why Chinese is much easier to learn than French?
The guy explain how French vocabulary is much bigger than Chinese.
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Re: The Hardest Language

i said Iceland probably because i've never heard it spoken.

i didn't see the choice i would have picked though, that African language that uses a variety of clicks to communicate. i used to work with a guy from Nigeria who had those clicks in his middle name. it was cool, but i am glad he could do it. can't say the same for myself though
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