Learning foreign languages opens up new career prospects, gives you the opportunity to watch movies and read books in the original, understand the meaning of songs, and just train your memory. However, not all languages are studied with equal ease - among them there are very simple, and those that are extremely difficult to learn.
The most difficult languages
One of the most difficult languages is Chinese. Each word is indicated in it by a separate symbol, recognizing which, you still will not have a clue about how it is pronounced. The complexity is represented by a huge number of homophones - words that are pronounced the same, but are written differently and mean different concepts. The tonal system in Chinese also does not simplify the task for the student. In addition to the general intonation of the sentence, each syllable is also pronounced with a different tonality, on which the meaning of the word depends.
Japanese in its complexity is not much inferior to Chinese. Knowledge of symbols also does not give an idea of their pronunciation. There are three writing systems in Japanese: kanji, which uses Chinese characters, hiragana, used to write grammatical particles and suffixes, and katakana, to indicate borrowed words.
Japanese students are thought to spend three times as much time as those who learn English or French.
Arabic also causes a lot of difficulties. Vowels are not used in writing, and consonants have four spellings, depending on their position in the word. Nouns and verbs have to be studied in singular, dual and plural. Nouns themselves have three cases and two kinds, and the verb in the sentence is put before the predicate.
The dialects of Arabic, which can vary as much as modern European languages differ from each other, are also of great complexity.
