The hardest language in the world?

Originally Posted by cubed

What about French ??

To properly speak in french from english seems to be hard for a lot of people.

"Le vache" NO IT'S "LA VACHE". WHY? ...WHO KNOWS ??

Duh. A cow is obviously more feminine than masculine. No, wait, actually that works since a cow, in french anyway, only applies to the female animal. A better example would have been "La table". Why is a table more feminine than masculine? Who knows... There are even words which no one seems to remember the gender of, even native french speakers. For example "apostrophe". Yeah, that has a gender. But half of the time you'll ask someone and they'll have no idea which gender it is. So yeah, I can easily imagine how fun it must be to learn french for people who haven't grown up speaking it. In my opinion, english is orders of magnitude easier. I'm not even sure you can find an exception or some weird rule in the english language that doesn't have an equivalent in french, or something even more bizarre.

Since french and english are the only two languages I know, it's sorta difficult to say what the hardest language to learn/speak/write is. From my point of view, anything using a different alphabet than what I'm used to would probably be fairly difficult at first. So I'm gonna go with a safe bet and say ancient egyptian. With hieroglyphs and shit.

Jam it back in, in the dark.