Foreign Languages

Fau · 8 Jan 2018 at 20:57

Which one of the European languages do you find the most difficult to learn?

Monkeynut · 8 Jan 2018 at 20:59

I found Hungarian difficult.

Lopéz · 8 Jan 2018 at 20:59

Most difficult to what?

Diddums · 8 Jan 2018 at 21:01

You. You are a difficult foreign language

NoobCannon · 8 Jan 2018 at 21:05

In before lock

Josh · 8 Jan 2018 at 21:05

Scouse or Welsh

Lopéz · 8 Jan 2018 at 21:12

Incidentally I work all over Europe and this sort of thing gets discussed fairly often.
Hungarian followed by Finnish are the most often mentioned as the most difficult to understand, read or surreal.

Efour · 8 Jan 2018 at 21:15

Fau speak is extremely difficult.

EGuitarStar · 8 Jan 2018 at 21:59

European evary diffykult language are for me. Me is englandish.

Diddums · 8 Jan 2018 at 22:41

EGuitarStar said:
European evary diffykult language are for me. Me is englandish.

oi mein englad is beter lol

jsmoke · 8 Jan 2018 at 22:44

I think Norwegian is pretty difficult. Other than that I wouldn't have a clue. Is half of Russia not counted as Europe?

Dis86 · 8 Jan 2018 at 22:49

jsmoke said:
I think Norwegian is pretty difficult. Other than that I wouldn't have a clue. Is half of Russia not counted as Europe?

Norwegian is quite easy. Certainly found it easier than Spanish

Raymond Lin · 8 Jan 2018 at 22:50

There is actually an "official" ranking for this for an English speaker, used by people like the CIA. So according to this, the answer is Ukrainian.

https://qz.com/1139699/the-language...ast-time-to-learn-per-the-us-foreign-service/

/thread.

Rroff · 8 Jan 2018 at 22:58

Lopéz said:
Hungarian followed by Finnish are the most often mentioned as the most difficult to understand, read or surreal.

Hungarian is a bit of a weird one in that it isn't that hard to get the gist of it but the nuance is another level again. (Compared to some other languages where I find even getting a basic grasp for it relatively inaccessible).

Tunney · 8 Jan 2018 at 23:03

Interesting first post.

I mean... mielenkiintoinen ensimmäinen viesti.

Rotty · 8 Jan 2018 at 23:42

I'm English, it's not my job to learn foreign languages

adolf hamster · 8 Jan 2018 at 23:53

Rotty said:
I'm English, it's not my job to learn foreign languages

Damn straight, our forefathers didnt fight tooth and nail around the world to found an empire and go through 2 world wars for us to have to learn other peoples languages!!

On a more serious note i've noticed it seems english is to go-to language of the non-native english speakers, so its an interesting question really which one you should pick if english is your native language.

Ace Modder · 9 Jan 2018 at 12:21

Klingon isn't easy.

exhashdotdot · 9 Jan 2018 at 15:14

Actually, OP's question isn't that stupid. The Foreign Service Institute publishes numbers on the number of weeks required for a English-native diplomat to become competent in a language:

So there's your answer

Source: https://qz.com/1139699/the-language...ast-time-to-learn-per-the-us-foreign-service/