What's the HARDEST LANGUAGE? (Arabic, Mandarin or Japanese?)
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- Arabic, Mandarin and Japanese are 3 of the most difficult languages for English speakers. But which one is truly the World's Hardest Language? Let's find out...
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00:00 - The World's Hardest Language?
00:34 - The Method
00:57 - Hardest Pronunciation
03:29 - How I Learn Languages (Pimsleur - Sponsored)
04:14 - Hardest to Read
08:31 - Hardest Grammar
11:02 - The Final Verdict
As always, thanks for watching!
يقول الله تعالى في القرآن الكريم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ( وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ خَلْقُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلَافُ أَلْسِنَتِكُمْ وَأَلْوَانِكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِّلْعَالِمِينَ )
جزاك الله خير ❤
اي حد يشوف التعليق ده يستغفر ربنا ويسبح عايزين نكسب ثواب ياجماعة ❤
アラビア語のコメント、全部こんな感じでおもろい
神祈るコメントばっか
普通の話は出来んのかしら
@@tori_suki385bc , you don’t know how depth this Aia(sentence) is
❤
@@mx4565
I’m a ordinary Japanese and I don’t have any specific religion, so it’s hard for me to imagine how Allah is precious for Muslims , but I want to show respect a lot for their deep faith.
この人の英語すごく聞きやすいから字幕なしで理解出来る！
He speaks English very clearly so I can understand the content without subtitles
Good job
何でわざわざ日本語を上に書いた？笑 日本人アピールか？
Я английский не знаю и я понимаю его ❤
i am learning japanese so I was very happy to be able to read your comment easily!
@@Me-mt9rq I'm so glad to hear that💖
Good luck with studying languages together!
Knowledgeable and pretty decent pronunciation too 👌
I'm Japanese. He showed 10:07 how opposite are the sentence constructions between Japanese and English. That's also why we Japanese are quite bad at mastering English.
Japanese grammar is actually similar to Turkey's (a.k.a agglutinative languages). These sentence constructions are not so strict but very flexible because of the marker-particles that define the word's function in the sentence, so we can shuffle the order or drop the subject/object/verb. However, this grammar concept is quite alien to the English. The only strict thing in English is sentence construction, the function of the word is defined by its positions, not by conjugations or particles. So, sometimes we can't understand an English sentence even though we know every single word in it.
I wonder, since you know Kanji, would you be able to understand written Mandarin Chinese? But in Chinese, the function of a word is defined by its position too, like in English.
Of course not, answering as a average Japanese person who have not learned Chinese. Sometimes we can understand short words written in Chinese but it's hard to understand a whole sentence. In addition, they use many of unknown Kanji(Hanzi) for us.
I am surprised Turkish is not on this list.
as a turkish, who's just started learning japanese, i totally agree with you. Learning Japanese is so enjoyable for me
Japanese grammar is almost 99% identical as Korean grammar.
I learn Japanese and Arabic and I find Japanese easier!
Omg! U serious 😂 I’m arab
بالتوفيق
ترجم كلمة ترجم يلا ❤
So, iam an arab learning English and Japanese 🙂
As someone whose first language wasn't always English (I'm from Bosnia) and had to learn English at the age of 10 when moving countries, I also learned Arabic at 16 (became fluent a few years later, including standard Arabic), as well as Syrian dialect, and now learning Japanese, I must say that my years of studying Arabic prior to this gives me huge bias towards Arabic, so I'd say right now that's way easier for me to understand and speak, but as for learning, I do agree that Japanese is easier to pick up. My next goal after becoming semi-fluent in Japanese is to pick up Russian (that one will be a breeze, since my mother tongue is a Slavic language already and shares thousands of common words with Russian which I already know by default). Learning the Russian Cyrillic alphabet was also a breeze since it's similar to the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, which I had learned at school in Bosnia in 3rd grade.
Dear Mr Wiles! Thanks for your wonderful video comparing 3 really heavy languages each challenging its learner with lots of difficulties and, besides, confronting him or her with a long history and a huge literature. What makes this triple challenge even more formidable is that the learner has also to master 3 different writing systems, just the most difficult on planet Earth. Your are not only a great language learner, but also a skilful, tricky teacher, who is entertaining and enjoyable to listen to as well. I consider your almost perfect pronunciation of these 3 languages, which are so different in this respect, a big achievement proving you a real talent for languages, that is a pretty gifted linguist.#
Japanese alone has three different writing systems.
I am an Arab and this man did not speak classical Arabic in this clip originally! Rather, speak a weak colloquial dialect, coming up with the correct qualities to pronounce letters is very difficult among the Arabs themselves, let alone among foreigners?
I can't believe you didn't touch on onyomi and kunyomi regarding reading japanese.
生
Yup. Japanese basically looked at Chinese writing, asked "you think that's fucked up? Hold my sake" and went ever so slightly nuts. Koreans thankfully had the fortitude to do away with characters and just write in an alphabet. (They'd already disposed of their equivalent of kunyomi, as far as I understand, and just wrote native words phonetically)
Well, I talked to English speaker before on this, and they don't really care if it's onyomi or kunyomi as it's just a 'sound' to them - just like how they remember 'a new word' in English. These 2 matter most to Chinese when learning Japanese as they remember Kanji then onyomi or kunyomi matter. People's brain has been structured and trained by their mother language.
@@yingyimo1592 That's true, but the thing is kunyomi/onyomi just adds readings and reduces the consistency of the already shoddy phonetic information the characters' Sinitic readings contain.
because learning on and kun is a waste of time. just learn the actual vocabulary and use the kanji as nothing more than a convenient way of representing the words.
Thank you, Mr. Brian. I follow your lessons constantly, and I hope that you will provide us with many English language lessons and will not be absent from us.🎉
ただ意味が伝わればそれでいいというのであれば、日本語はこの中で簡単な言語だと思いますが、文法的に正しく話すことや、動画内にもある敬語は日本人の大人ですら上手く使えない人がいるほど難しいです。
それはどの言語においても同じことが言えますよ
并不觉得，日语动词う行要进行变形，完成时，过去式，在句子中有了“昨天”的情况下还要用过去式
理解不了
When I hear japanese people speaking japanese it's like hearing the sound of a machine gun. I dream of one day that i can have a casual conversation with a Japanese person.
Thank you very much for the explanation
I agree with Arabic. As a Muslim growing up who had to learn Arabic and then took an interest in learning Japanese later. Arabic is definitely more sophisticated than Japanese. I was able to learn Japanese very well within 6 months and after years of dropping the Japanese language because I never had real practice with people, I still remember a lot even today. On the other hand I spend 8 years learning Arabic growing up as a child and I forgot most of it😂.
Makes me realize just how far I had to go in becoming fluent in spoken and standard Arabic, as well as dialect (Syrian dialect btw). And now I'm learning Japanese. Sentence structure is easy once you catch on to it, and context and dropped words or particles likewise. It just takes a lot of listening, and it's not quite as hard once you get used to it. At this point the only thing that still remains challenging is kanji. I learn using the acquisition learning method, so naturally that would mean I only learn the kanji that I need, when I need them, hence I only know about 15-20 kanji so far.
話すだけなら漢字は必要ありません。
日本に来て生活するなら必要です。
Impressive explanation.
Gut gemacht 👌👍
Thank you!
Danke
Good video, by the way I am also learning French as a second language not counting my mother language Arabic, and I know English. and you may find the counting system hard which it is hard ngl, but when you learn it and reach the numbers from 100-1000 you will find it very logical and actually Arabic grammar is like a connecting system you find each rule has a connection and supports the other one
Actually Japanese has an even crazier counting system. There are many of them, depending on what it is you're counting. And they just keep getting more bizarre as you go on. For example, there is a separate counting system just for counting cylindrical objects (like trees, pens, bottles, pipes, etc.).
Here's a playlist of 29 videos, 14 of which are different ways to count depending on what it is you're counting.
ua-cam.com/play/PLvfyEkzQwHG7bC_Egyyzx1tw59rwNqahb.html&si=I7lEp_LYWASvTMJV
@@spartanbeast3575
That's not that extraordinary. Just think they are some kind of special units, such as 'five pints', 'a gallon', and 'ten miles'
@@user-rw3bk6wp4m Ah makes sense.. I suppose it's quite easy once you learn them all, they just look hard on the surface at first
日本語は日本人に伝わる程度の発音を身に付けるのは比較的容易ですが日本人と同じように発音できる外国人はほとんど見た事がありません
それは他の言語でも割と当てはまることだよ。
Believe me, many foreigners actually do speak native level Japanese language. We might not even notice they are foreigners
@@kimberlysugiyama1958
If "foreigner" here means someone whose native language is not Japanese, then I don’t agree with you.
They might speak native level Japanese but they are differences, which can be noticed by natives.
I will not deny the existence of foreigner who speaks completely as Japanese do, but those number would not be described as “many” as you wrote. Quite rare
動画主も日本語の発音簡単って言ってるわりに発音もアクセントもやっぱり外国人だもんな。パックンとかもそう。ってことはやっぱり簡単じゃないんだろうな。
@@Orenaishire「発音が簡単」とされているわりにはっていうコメントだと思うぞ。
I absoulotly love this video!
Thanks for your effort.❤
From an Arabic native speaker.
as a native arabic speaker, i must say your pronunciation is incredible for real.
also i never noticed "صباح الخير" would be so hard to pronounce lol. it's like a piece of cake for us :)
ما شاء الله
هاي انا عربيه
He pronounces the letters good but his accent is terrible don’t try to cover it up
@@Fahadx43 وليش هخفي الموضوع؟ لكنته بعد حلوة. وعلى الاقل حتى لو بدك تنتقده قولها بطريقة حلوة ما تعرف الا تجرح مشاعر الناس انت؟
@@Jay_HYبس تحس مستحيل تسمع اامريكي وتحسه فعععللاا يتكلم عربي يعني عندنا لو في واحد متمكن بالانقلش مررهه تحس انه فعلا كانه native speaker بس الاجانب بشكل عام في تكسير
The way you compare the difficulty of languages is very logical, well done
Thank you 🙏
@@BrianWilesLanguagesعليك ان تعلم ان اللغة العربية هي لغة القرآن ولغة اهل الجنة اذا لم تفهم قل لي وسوف اشرح لك بالانجليزيه وعندما نزل القران على نبي الله محمد لم يكن منقط اي لايوجد له نقاط مثل حرف ب مثلا كان بدون نقطة تحت الحرف كانو يحفظون القران حفظ وتم تنقيط القران لاحقا لتسهيل الحفظ والفهم لمعانيه انا عربي الأصل ولغتي الام العربية وانا فاشل بها هههههههه لانها معقدة وصعبة😊😊
@@aboalmool7370 صراحه ما اتفق معاك بمجرد أن تقرأ القرآن الكريم باستمرار وتختمه أكثر من مره سوف تجد نفسك منطلق باللغة العربية الفصحى ولا تجد صعوبه في اللغة ، وأكثر شيء يدفع الإنسان إلى التعلم والاستمرار في قراءة القرآن الاجر والثواب المترتب على قراءته ، باقي اللغات بدون أهداف تنفعك للاخره إلى إن أردت أن تدعو أهلها بعد تعلمها .
こんなにカタカナ英語が上手な海外の人初めて見た
私も、初めて海外の人でカタカナ英語がこんなに上手な人を見ました！
@@user-xk5zy7rr9o我认为日本语并不难学 日本語は難しくないと思います。
@@derekwampum8861 I want to say that Japanese-English pronunciation is difficult for English speakers.
Even his arabic is great for an English speaker, i am impressed
Amazing prononciation in arabic amd chinese !!and amazing video!! Good luck
I can speak Mandarin, Japanese, and English at a business level.
I can say it is quite difficult to achieve that, and I am proud of myself.
I am proud of you, too, son. 😂😂l
great
真的吗，你是如何学习的
I learned Japanese to fluency and Mandarin to broken-degree. First I was pleased as the grammar was easier than anything I've ever seen. But the tones got to me and I find the language extremely "brittle". Meaning if you mess up a few things, they quickly don't understand what you try to say. In now hundreds of hours of speaking Japanese with natives, I really can't remember a single instance where they asked me what I meant or clearly didn't understand what I said. Somehow Japanese seems more "robust" with respect to mistakes and on top of that, due to the culture of dropping subjects, objects and even verbs all the time, as you said, they have developed extremely good skills at guessing what you want to say. I found speaking with Japanese natives a really joyful and effortless experience from the start, even when I was still very bad at it. While with Chinese I often felt like we were truly sitting in different worlds. I have this hypothesis of "Inverse Relationship between linguistic robustness and grammatical complexity". It could be total BS and I am an engineer and know nothing about linguistics, but it seems to me that the harder the grammar, the more you can make mistakes without too many consequences. My native tongue is German, which is fairly difficult grammatically, for example it has these dreaded 4 "cases" that learners always fear. But in practical terms, I often speak with foreigners that make like 8 mistakes per sentence, wrong conjugations, and mess up like 85% of these cases etc, and still, communication is totally no issue, at times even totally fluent. Sure you don't sound native but we understand 99% of what you say perfectly. Chinese has easy grammar and I realized often if you mess up one little thing, the meaning is lost. I once forgot a "个" (which is pronounced "ge" more or less for those who don't know mandarin, so very very short) and the person didn't understand what I wanted to say. I quit Chinese, for a few reasons. I was frustrated with the tones, and also the horrible slurring and bumbling when they speak fast. Japanese often speak faster but apart from the odd 100 year old grand pa, you always hear everything they say clearly. Also I have no connection to China, I never go there, while I visit Japan often...
I haven’t done mandarin yet, but I think that’s what makes Japanese the worst for me, because I don’t think the grammar is complex like you said…it’s worse, it’s ambiguous 😱! Because so many things are dropped for seemingly no reason other than preference, it feels like it’s harder to be wrong, but also harder to be “right”, and my biggest problem in language-learning is that in general I care too much about correctness. I haven’t had this much of a problem in other languages, because after a certain point of studying and understanding I’m able to tell when something sounds “right” or “wrong”, but I feel like it’s comparatively so hard to tell if it’s correct in Japanese still
@@diegotejada55 Yes, developing a "feel" for Japanese takes a long time. I have it to some limited degree now, but still very limited. We should get over ourselves and stop putting the language on a pedestal and spending every second in fear of making a mistake, or not sounding like a native. A few UA-camrs here have done HUGE damage to the Japanese learning community, especially beginners, by making videos where they for example "pretend to be beginners making mistakes" and still sound 10x better than most of all learners ever will in their life. In particular Dogen and "MattVsJapan". Dogen makes really funny content and seems like a nice and smart guy, but his obsession with sounding native-like and putting Japanese on SUCH an insane pedestal has caused a lot of damage. Language is a tool to communicate. Sure its always good to improve, but your goal should NOT be to sound like a perfect native, but being able to use the language such that you can have meaningful discussions and form new friendships and save your butt when you need to order food somewhere where no one speaks English. Spend more time to learn about the country and culture through the language, rather than trying to get flawless pronunciation. I really love Dogen but I hate him for also almost making me quit my Japanese studies 2 years ago. Glad I didn't and didn't care about their silly obsessions! Go for it!!! 💪🏻💪🏻
@@amarug "I hate him for also almost making me Japanese" He almost made you Japanese, you mean like with a citizenship and everything?
@@earlysda 😂😂😂 I should not reply to comments half asleep. "for almost making me quit learning Japanese" ;)
@@diegotejada55Language is culture itself, so it's not only about pitch accent, pronunciation, vocabulary, expressions, or grammar. And Japanese is a high-context culture, so a simple bow can mean excuse me, sorry, thank you, please, it's been a long time, or good morning, depending on circumstance.
Naturally, natives don't need much effort to understand the context. Or more accurately, words are added to avoid miscommunication. Which is why we can understand each other at times without the subject, verb, or object. In KOKUGO class, we also do study about direct and indirect inferences since childhood so everyone is on the same page.
Honestly, most foreigners are not really fluent in Japanese. They're good enough to order in a restaurant, but they cannot read or understand a novel or newspaper in Japan. They cannot make business proposals or read government documents.
The UA-camrs you mentioned can read materials meant for natives, like the many foreign/international students who graduate from Japanese universities each year. They're not language beginners by any means. But they also have high expectations for themselves. We have always had people like Donald Keene and Alexander Vovin. They are the exception.
難しい部類の言語を３つ比較できるまでに習得してるって。。。シンプルに凄っ！！
10:07の表は難しさがわかりやすく表現されていて感動すら覚える。
if you want to live without inconvenience in Japan
and read Japanese book.
you should know 3000 words about Japanese.
but some Japanese can be read several ways.
ex)生・・・140ways
日・・・205ways
It is just two words.but as far as i know,you should know 500words like this. so I feel Japanese is the hardest language except for pronounce.
@@salehsaber4306 I understand how poor your Japanese is because there are several errors in your information😏
@@salehsaber4306 日 has “only two” meanings😑
and “only pronounced” bla bla bla😑
Even if we exclude the difficult honorific parts (honorific, humble, polite), Japanese has verbs and auxiliary verbs with conjugations. Moreover, each of them has its own conditions for linking them. These are essential elements to make a “good” Japanese sentence. You are a genius if you understand this in five minutes. Or are you talking like Anya from Spy Family?🤡
@@salehsaber4306 I didn't forget about the kanji. 日 has other meanings and readings than the ones you listed. But you said "only". This is your mistake. Then, if you really understood the grammar in 5 minutes, you are a real genius and you should be more proud of yourself. Seriously.😎
@@salehsaber4306
5分で文法をマスターする男「日 has only two meanings: sun and day which are pretty close. 」
🤣
@@user-xl3bi6jf9w 🤢
您好老师As a student of mandarin with a Chinese wife from Hubei Province， I endorse every point made about mandarin. 太好了！
中文难的不在于交流，而在于文化底蕴，各种成语、诗词、典故非常多，还有不同朝代的文言文。不过幸运的是，普通学习者不需要学这些
@@tianalex6355 正确✅
但是从另一个维度看，如果我们把语言学习分成听说读写四个部分，汉语的不区分词汇间隔是个大麻烦，对读和听非常不友好
@@tianalex6355我想知道但凡是有一定历史的语言，哪个没有大量的诗词 古音 典故😅在语言频道试图找优越感有点可笑
Very fun video !
That was a fun video! I am starting to learn Egyptian Arabic and came across your videos recently. Very helpful. You helped me memorize the alphabet with mnemonics that I was initially having trouble with!
Keep going from Egypt 🇪🇬❤️
My personal opinion is i guess Arabia is the most difficult language to learn from anyone not an Arabic speaker
@@FF_Shiko ياعرص لا تشجعها تتعلم اسوء لكنه
No Learning the Arabic language is not that difficult@@shieldstar5629
how is it going or كيف يجري الوضع ؟ او ها؟ بشر كيف الوضع
Amazing video brain keep going ❤❤❤❤
Excellent video. Would love to know your opinion on which languages would constitute the next tier of difficulty below these three. Korean, Hungarian, Finnish, Polish, Russian, Navajo?
Korean
@@user-rw3bk6wp4m Korean is the easiest out of "Korean, Hungarian, Finnish, Polish, Russian, Navajo"
My opinion as a Native English speaker
polish is the hardest among them in my opinion
Although alluded to, one of the biggest difficulties with Arabic is that most people don’t actually speak MSA in conversation so when you really want to learn, you have to study both MSA and the regional dialect (eg Egyptian), so you’re basically learning two languages in one. This probably should’ve weighed it higher in difficulty
Agree. He should have considered availability of material and dialect differences.
Japanese has a single standard for academics and it is easily understood by all Japanese speakers. Japan is one of the most prolific producers of popular media from movies, video games, manga, anime, music, etc. it is incredibly easy to fill your day with input in Japanese on any topic.
Chinese has plenty of material too but you have to pick a language first within the Chinese family. Even if you choose Mandarin, there are many regional differences and of course much popular media is in Cantonese or other languages.
Arabic has far less input material, especially if you aren’t learning Egyptian Arabic. You won’t find nearly the same amount of comic books, light novels, animation, etc. And as you said the regional differences can be huge.
علي فكرة هو بس لو اتعلم العربية الفصحي كل الناس في الدول العربية تعرف الفصحي مش محتاج اللهجة تقريبا ده بنسبالي انا مدرستش عربية فصحي لاكن هي لغتي الام فانا اعرفها كويس
صحيح نحن لا نتكلم بها عادتاً لاكن نحن نستطيع أن نفهم المتحدثين بها
في الحقيقة اعتقد انها سهله بعد أن تتعلم كيف تتكلم بلغه العربيه العامة لن العاميه مشتقه من اللغة العربية الفصحى@@SSS_SWORD
@@nashygame635 قصدك يحتاج يتعلم فصحي ورح نفهمه لانك كاتب العكس
@@choreomaniacread Quran filled with Arabic
Technically language learning is easy especially if you have the right tools. Immersive translate has been working out for me and i have never had an issue with foreign language difficulty at any point since i tried it out. I love it.
I speak English, Spanish, and Japanese.
Being half Mexican and growing up around it in my 95% hispanic town certainly helped lay a foundation for me though. But I didn't always speak it, I learned it after high school.
I could understand it (contextual speaker) but I wasn't good at speaking it or expressing myself. But after a few months of serious studying I could safely say I speak Spanish finally. It was actually stupid easy to be honest.
Japanese took 2 years. I started the first 2 months by learning to read and write Hiragana and Katakana by heart (forget about Kanji for a second) and then I memorized hundreds of the most common vocab words, and hundreds of the most common phrases. Upon memorizing so much stuff, I quickly learned I was easily able to understand how the grammar works even without watching 1 hour videos explaining how the grammar works. lol
But I also had a lot of help from random youtube shorts and fun videos explaining the grammar every now and then, or sometimes they would tell me new formal and informal ways of saying things and I'd memorize that too. I started shadowing subbed anime more as well, really trying to repeat what the character said and almost role play it, it made it easier for my brain to remember. A few other things, but yeah, I had a very make shift wacky approach to Japanese. Then I kind of learned Kanji here and there eventually, still learning. Basically I brute forced my way to becoming conversational in Japanese by memorizing 1K+ words and phrases and learning slang, ect.
استمعت بالفيديو ! شكرا ❤
سوي المرة الجاية فيديو مقارنة بين اسهل لغات بالعالم (مستخدمة)
pretty cool idea!
أي والله
日本語で失礼致します。6:20の所では かきくけこ(kakikukeko) が かきけくこ(kakikekuko) と紹介されていますが、日本語のひらがなの順番は あいうえお(aiueo) であり、あいえうお(aieuo)ではありません。また、これはカタカナでも同様です。もし、意図的にやられたのであれば申し訳ありません。
良い動画を作って頂きありがとうございます！
そういうところとかちょっと付け焼き刃感ありますよね、いいビデオなのですが外国の方が日本語すぐマスターしたって言っててちゃんとできてるのほとんど見たことないです…アラビア語などの発音すごい綺麗って意見も多いだけに細かいところが気になってしまいますね
ちょっと気にはなったけど、わざわざ目くじら立てて指摘するまでもないよね。日本人らしく細かくて草。笑
こういうコメントが一番恥ずかしい。
マジやめてくれ
間違いはきちんと指摘すべき🎉
日本語勉強してくれてうれしいですね。
英語話者にとって母音の順番はAEIUOです
この母音に子音をくっつけるだけで仮名を網羅できるという日本語50音のとっつきやすさを説明している部分なので、日本語における母音の順番はさほど重要ではないでしょう
コメ主は配慮しながら指摘しているが返信欄の"付け焼き刃"や"間違い"のような決めつけは非常に愚かだと思います
👋🏼 Small struggling Travel Channel here. I love your content, thanks for this great video! You inspire me to keep grinding my channel, maby one day I’ll grow as big as you 🥲
Interesting video, as an English speaker that has learned Japanese to an upper intermediate level pushing advanced. I would put writing/reading as a solid 10, maybe even a 10+ and bring chinese down a point or 2. I don't speak Chinese but I have a basic level knowlege of the language and while the tone has the potential to change depending on the word, It's of my understanding that each character has one reading assigned to it. Japanese kanji has a minimun of 2 different readings. some of which have up to 13, which are also subject to slightly change from soft to hard consonents for ease of pronunciation. For example in the phrase, 女子部屋 (womens room), the first character, 女 by itself is read as "on'na", and the second character 子 is read as "ko". But when put together they are read as joshi, not on'na ko. furthermore the word 部屋 (room) is read as heya, but not so fast, becuse it is preceded by 女子 (joushi) it changes from heya to beya, making the phrase read as "joshi beya", and this is not a rare thing, it happens quite a lot. However to even the scales a little, I do belive pronouncing Chinese to be much harder, especially when you are starting to learn it. And while Japanese does have pitch accent, it's not neccasary to know to be understood in the language, it's more of just sounding more natural and being slighly easier to be understood. If I was telling my JPN friend that the event was closed becuase it started raining, but I said the wrong pitch accent and instead of rain, said candy, it would only take him 0.3 seconds to realize I meant it was raining, and not that candy was literally falling from the sky. Or if I went to a resaurant and asked for a bridge It wouldn't take them long to realize I meant chopsticks. Wile pitch accent exists in Japanese it's not nearly as crucial in terms of understanding as it is in chinese. For that reason I would bring chinese pronunciation up a point or two.
I thought this was going to be very uniformed and surface level like many videos on this topic. Glad I clicked it because i was wrong! Solid video all around! Thanks😊
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
11:43 أخيراً 😂
@@BrianWilesLanguages
lamontagne, what is "uniformed"?
@@BrianWilesLanguagesأنا عربي واعرف اقرا اللغة الانكليزية واريد تعلم اللغة الالمانية بمن تنصحني ابدا اولا اتعلم الالمانية او الانكليزية لاني مازلت ضعيف بالانكليزية. شكرا لك
الانجليزية اهم
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Thanks Brian for your time and effort. We really appreciate it
It's called brian, brain is 🧠,have a good day 😊
@@youssefrabiee5033 oops a little misspell lol
5:53 I loved how he say it
😂😂😂
Thx for this beautiful video, and I long for the day when you will become our brother
I'd say pronunciations aren't part of how hard a language is. It can be hard at the start, but after a few months, pronunciation isn't a blocker for learning.
Instead, I'd replace it with "available language content". Native indigenous languages are some of the hardest because there's no available learning content. Similar to chinese.
Compared to Japanese, it has a huge amount of content. They make so many interesting shows that it makes it easy. Also, why so many people can learn English. There's so much English content out there it makes it easy.
Thanks for saying what I wanted to say.
"Similar to chinese"
If by Chinese you mean Mandarin then not at all. Mandarin has a huge amount of resources and content online.
@theodiscusgaming3909 They have content but nothing too interesting or at different levels of learning. Most locals watch content from abroad with translation. They have a decent amount of songs, but tv shows and movies are mostly bollywood tier quality... not for everyone. And there's very little variation in their content, seen one seen them all. Along with that, finding the content on western internet like youtube is difficult and subtitles too. Compared with Spanish or Japanese it is night and day differences
The fact that you forgot the ض🙂
I would say the list is خ ح ص ض ط ظ ع غ ق
he missed quite a few
@@nawra77 true those are the hardest ones
@@nawra77 no ص and ط are actually easy for most
@@Aljaleela But that's because most of them pronounce the ص as س
and the ط as ت
What a beautiful comparison among these languages, as Arabic is my mother tongue, I can say your Arabic pronunciation is really Excellent. I always think of the difficulty of learning the Asian languages as they seem to me,
are very complicated languages, especially in writing! Thanks from my ❤️ for this amazing video!
Your arabic is amazing!!! I‘m sure your chinese and Japanese are incredibly too but just the way you speak it, shows me how much effort you’ve spend mastering it.
You should be able to read the
Quran by now it‘ll be a great experience trust me 😉
All the Love keep the good work❤
شكرا لك بريان
Thanks Brian, that was a nice one 😅😊
براين مو بريان
I agree with you about Arabic, even for native speakers is hard to learn, I'm a native speaker of Arabic and I can make sure that I don't have enough knowledge about Arabic grammar.
btw: I'm a postgraduate student
Thank you Brian and keep going 🎉
I appreciate that, thank you 👍
أتوقع بسبب تحمسنا لدراسة لغات أخرى على حساب اللغة العربية.
الحمدلله عندنا يتم تدريسنا عنها وعن قواعدها بعدها ندرس احكام القرآن،
(Im not English native speaker) I do study only Japanese out of the languages you mentioned, but i think Japanese has a huge gap between beeing understandable and sounding like native. The pronaunciation is really hard to get natural, and the honorific system is pure horror. Although, being Japanese begginer is quite easy
That's true. I'm japanese and i talked a lot of people who wanna speak japanese. They speak pretty good but it's not like a native pronunciation. It's a japanese spoken by foreigners.
@@Aqwesptcok
اتمنى زيارة اليابان من كل قلبي ، اتمنى زيارتها من بين كل دول العالم
Sounding like native is pretty rare and difficult for any non native speakers, not unique to Japanese (not really the reason to claim its pronaunciation more difficult than it is). But I agree that picking up basic Japanese is not too difficult, and Grammar is indeed complicated.
@@user-rd6rz8vy8kぜひいつか日本に来てください！歓迎しますよ！
You impressed me with the fluency of your tongue. You speak the Arabic language very well. God willing, I am an Arab young man
As someone who's been learning mandarin for a few months, I think it's definitely not the hardest language. Once you get over the speed bump of tones it really is a question of memorisation and immersion.
Arabic, with its intense grammar and lack of centralisation seems by far the hardest.
Honorable mention to Navajo. From what i've heard it's just as hard as Arabic and good luck finding resources for that..
Awesome explanation, as an English/French/Arabic speaker trying to learn Mandarin this definitely gives context and insight! I also tried Pimsleur in the past to try out Turkish and the fact that it's conversational focus I did notice significant leap in short amount of time. I might look into it again.
I did notice how much easier it is to memorize Chinese characters once you break down the characters a little. For example the word Good has 2 characters (mother and child) in it. Which kind of suggests a mother with her children is a good thing. I also really appreciate that there is no headache whatsoever when it comes to grammar.
Your Arabic pronunciation is pretty spot on considering you're able to speak other very different languages. Quiet the tongue twisting adventure!
Thanks so much, I really appreciate it! And great insights about breaking down Chinese characters 👍
Such a great video!
Thanks so much!
As a Japanese, I think the most difficult thing to learn Japanese is “Onomatope”, which is often used like the adverb. If you are interested in it, please search and know how difficult it is.
日本語って単語の並びが自由だからめっちゃ簡単だと思う。
「私はしたいです着るスーツを私見た店でホテルの向かいにある」って言ってもまあ伝わるけど、「I hotel across the street that’s a shop saw a suit try on want to」なんて言われても分からないでしょ
What an amazing video, Thank you bro!
Thanks, Samir!
You should do another video comparing these 3 languages with Hungarian, Basque, and Navajo
wow your arabic is really great you bodied the egyptian dialect !
So i'm lucky to know Arabic, English, some Spanish as well 😂 Nice video keep it up ❤😊
والله بتوحشني يا صديقي وبتوحشني فديوهاتك.
ماشاء الله عليك، انت ظاهرة تستحق الدراسة، عندك قدرة ملفتة للنظر ومبهرة على تعلّم اللغات، ورحابة صدر واتساع أفُق.
ربنا يحفظك من كل سوء ❤😊🙏🌷
هوا صديقك لي الواقع؟
@@user-xk5kg5ks9e
لا للأسف، اتمنى أقابله يوما ما عشان أتعلم منه.🙏☺🌷
@@alishaheen8927 باذن الله قريب .
Thanks for motivation to keep learning English, It seems so easy after watching your video
What’s your native language?
@@lllx2.195 Russian
@@lllx2.195 russian
The motivation being "at least I wasn't learning any one of these three languages"😂😂
I think Cantonese in terms of pronunciation is more challenging than Mandarin as there are 6 tones in Cantonese.
Fact
I'm a Belgian who studied both Arabic and Japanese. I feel that Japanese is more difficult for people who can speak English.
اللغة العربية الفصحى حتى العرب الحاليون لا يتحدثون بها جيدا لذا من الطبيعي أن تكون في هذا المركز لكن علمك بذلك وقدرتك على فهم هذه القواعد هو الأكثر إذهالا، أرجو زيارتك مجددا لمصر😊🤍
طيب انا مبتعلمش فصحي لاكن بفهمها عادي وكل العرب بيفهموها ف مش محتاج غير تتعلم الفصحي لو انت اجنبي
@@SSS_SWORDبالضبط هدا الي اريد اوصلة للعالم الي تريد تتعلم عربي
يروحون ويتعلمون لهجة معينه ثم يتورطون باللهجات الاخرى
مايعرفون أنه لو تعلموا الفصحى الكل رايح يفهمهم وهم راح يفهموا الكل
كيف مايتحدثونها !!! لهجات العربية القبيلية تعتبر من الفصحى من لهجات العرب قديماً إلى الآن طبعاً أتحدث عن جزيرة العرب مو دول أخرى ليكون تحسبين العرب كلهم يتحدثون لهجة قريش فقط
نعم لا يتحدثونها، اذا كنت تتحدثها فأذهب واقرا معلقة الاعشى، صدقني لن تفهم سوى حروف الجر، @@Ahood_2232
日本語が母国語だと英語が難しく感じる😢
中国人也会这么觉得😂
わかりみが深い
Hahahahahaha, this was a really amazing video to watch! Yeah arabic is very hard honestly and I am a native speaker. I think if i attempt the C1 arabic exam, i might fail it 😂😂. Also, do you only know the egyptian arabic dialect? As there are so many different arabic dialects and usually we all understand each other, except for Tunisia, Morroco, and Algeria. Usually, they understand other arabic dialects, but we do not understand theirs.
شكرا على القيديو براين❤ تحية لك من المغرب
مشفتيش المغرب مقسم؟
هو ما عارفش اش واقع في الصحراء @@Meh518
For your information bro Arabic pronunciation is very very delicate and there can be thousands of mistakes that are not noticed by English speakers 🎉
Ya just imagine the mistakes with shaddah alone
Thanks Brian for the huge effort and yeah the standard Arabic is even hard for the native speakers
احسنت
I have studied Japanese and I'm currently learning Mandarin. I personally love learning new writing systems. I also studied Hebrew. I think, while Japanese does use a lot of particles, there's only a handful you need to start engaging in the language. I also wonder how you'd rate these languages if the student is a native Spanish speaker. I've always thought Japanese would be easier to learn if you know Spanish, because the vowels are similar and Spanish also implies the subject sometimes.
For what it's worth, I can't seem to speak any foreign languages, but I can pick up grammar and reading pretty easily. I don't think those should have been doubled in your score.
Nice video! After mentioning the difference in counters in Arabic, I thought you'd mention the plethora of Japanese counters.
As a korean, japanese and chinese are easier than english to understand. I can understand some words without knowing how to pronounce.
But arabic is very hard to me. I can't find learning source for beginners and I can't find how to start to learn.
And japanese and chinese are more demanded than arabic. Maybe they are spoken neighbor country.
Your video is impressive - 最高!
Al Arabiyyatu Bayna Yadayk is a very good source for beginners. but the books is fully in Arabic so you should find someone to teach you in real lfe or from youtube videos. İf you cant find someone that does korean to arabic may be you can find english to arabic. or you may simply use a dictionary to go through the book
The difficulty of a new language depends on what language you know before. Korean and Japanese have a lot of Chinese loanwords, so you'll know familiar ones from that. Being fluent in Korean grammar also spares you from the mindfuck of trying to learn Japanese or Korean word order, which is difficult for a Westerner. To most of us, there are very few shared words, the sentence structure is really strange, and then there are characters as an additional headache unless you choose to study Korean.
特に韓国語と日本語は順番同じだから分かりやすいよね きっと
Something crucial is ignored in this video; in Japanese, every kanji has different pronunciations and meanings, at least two and up to over 100 for each, which I believe makes reading Japanese 50 out of 10.
eg. a kanji “生” has 158 ways to read and you have to figure out based on context.
日本人だけど生って漢字に158通りの読み方があるの初めて知ったわw
「生」の読み方は、基本的には12通りほどです
貴方の仰る通り特殊な読み方を加えればかなりの数になりますが、それは日本人でもほとんどの人たちが読めないので大丈夫ですよ
インパクト重視で158という数字を出しましたが、たしかにこれは特殊な読み方も無理矢理かき集めまくっての数なので、ここで出すのはややアンフェアだったかもですね笑。とは言え基本的な読み方が12通りというだけでも相当トリッキーですが...
@@sevancan3294 当の日本人ですら難しいと思ってるのに (他の言語と比べてとかではなく)
動画やコメントで「日本語は簡単だよ」なニュアンス含めて言われたら、そら120通り出してムキにもなりゃすよ！(笑)
8:19
Something that needs to be factored in is that Japanese kanji have at least two or more pronunciations depending on the context and the kanji, whether it acts as a prefix or a suffix, etc. This makes Japanese kanji much harder to pronounce, and every Japanese word has a pitch accent to memorize too.
Many kanji only have one 音読み and no 訓読み. Granted many have multiple 音読み and 訓読み, so it probably evens out. Just saying.
@@elezraita it's not that they only have one reading, it's that it's more common for them to be read in only one way, and it does not even out because at least 1243 kanji or more have multiple readings in the 常用漢字. Even then there are still probably even more kanji that are used in Japanese, a lot of Japanese people can't even spell out some Japanese words because of kanji that they never learned.
I'm a native egyptian and I know english and I was contemplating whether i should complete learning Japanese or should I switch to mandarin and this video and watching you speak japanese made me wanna learn both
Please study Chinese first.
@@qiaoqi6030 kinda too late , I’m saying I was already learning Japanese , after I get a good grasp on it I’ll definitely learn Chinese
As an Arabic guy i learnt Chinese and i think Arabic is the hardest language ever!
Many dialects and fusha
To be professional you have to study all of them not only fusha or one dialect.
It's really a big challenge to be like a native man !
It’s definitely a challenge!
There are over 6000 languages on the planet earth. Arabic the hardest language in the world? Is that even something that you can measure? Try Georgian , euskera , Navajo … and so many other languages
@@marieljackman1850 Arabic is the hardest according to so many studies and many linguistics, it contains more than 12 millions word
Most of languages that you mentioned don't have more than 500,000 words
Even we native speakers struggle with the standard Arabic and all it's grammar rules.
ان شاء الله
We can speak all the languages of the world, so Arabic is difficult because it enables you to use all the letter sounds
He didn't mention that Japanese kanji have a minumum of two ways to read each kanji, and sometimes many more, depending on what other kanji or hiragana that are in front or behind them.
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For example:
その他。sonota.
他の。 hokano.
.
銀行。 ginkou
行きます。ikimasu.
@ITSMe-xl5ih Jin, Nin.
Hito, Bito.
To.
生,the ways to read this
Kanji in Japanese is well
over 100
@@nihongok whew! How many of that 100 does the average 50 year old Japanese person know - 12 or so?
Freaking 水 has like 14 different readings used only in names because fuck you.
@@earlysda
according to the common kanji list defined by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, japanese students learn around 12 ways to read 生.
however, we have to know more in order to recognize people's names, read newspapers and not to be humilated in business world...
I am studying mandarim and in mu opinion read is easier than the other things you mentioned. Fortunately I have a good memory and with a little practice is possible to read several texts, but speaking isn't so easy. As a portuguese speaker, the strict sentence order is mandarin is a big problem. Everything has to be in specific order.
Native German speaker here 👋 I'm currently learning Japanese, I learned English and French in school and I'm glad that I don't have to learn German as a Non-native speaker. 😂
As an English speaker Arabic is the hardest for me out of the 3. The language itself is very different and they have about a million dialects that change in every other city. At least with Mandarin and Japanese, the dialects are usually not quite as extremely different. Plus I've actually studied Japanese for a while so I know it's not too bad.
私は日本人です。日本には方言が多くあり日本人でも聞き取れないものもあります。しかし、最近は方言も統一され始め話せる人が居なくなってきました（ ; ; ）寂しい。
↓難しい日本語（日本人が使う友達とのチャットのやり取りの文章です）
やほ
ん？
おけ
り
マ？
やば
がち？
↑
このような言葉の意味が分かったらあなたは神です！
我神ノ子力宿←日本人が中国語を真似て漢字だけを使い話して何とか意味が通じる話し方です。これの意味は（私は神の子、力を宿している）と予想して読みます。おふざけですけどw
@@Ritanoheya 私は東京弁しか知らない。 もし日本に住むことがあれば、もっといろいろな方言を勉強したいです。
日本語めっちゃ上手@@coolbrotherf127
as an arabic speaker i agree with you in that point some times
We actually dont understand each other but after some times you will be better in the language
日本語の方言は同じ日本人でもわからないほど極端に違うので、外国人が理解するのは非常に困難だと思いますよ
実際のところ、同じ日本人どころか同じ地域の人でさえ年齢に差があるとわかりません
若者と老人の年齢差どころか、若者とおじさんの年齢差ですら方言だと会話できないほどです
Im struggeling more with japanese reading than chinese reading. Because japanese kanji can be pronounced in MANY different ways.
Chinese phonetic components also have more consistency to them than Japanese ones. They're still just hints, but they work better.
Your Mandarin has a VERY STRONG Bejing accent! That's genuinely fun to hear a foreigner to talk like that. Btw, have you ever lived there
Your arabic pronunciation is very good 👍🏼
أولًا : العربية فيها لكنات مختلفة وأنت تتحدّث باللكنة المصرية تحديدًا، بالإضافة إلى وجود لكنة فصيحة (لغة عربية فصحى). (وأنا أكتب بالفصحى ليتمكن الناس من ترجمة كلامي، اللغة العامية باللكنة المصرية أو السعودية أو غيرها، يصعب ترجمتها في قوقل مثلًا، حرفيًا يبدو الأمر مستحيل، ورغم أختلاف طريقة كلامنا بنسبة لا بأس بها، نحن نفهم بعضنا ولكن قد نجهل معنى كلمات معينة أو حتّى جُمل)
فالمصري يقول : عايز أروَّح. والسعودي يقول : أبغى أروْح
(بمعنى : أرغب في الرحيل)
المصري يقول : عايزين تسيبوني. والسعودي يقول : تبغون تخلوني.
(بمعنى : تُريدون تَركِي "لوحدي")
وطبعًا العربية باللكنة العامية هي بحر من الكلمات، ناهيك عن كثرة الكلمات الفصيحة بحد ذاتها
الأمر الآخر : في العربية توجد كلمات من نفس الحروف تمامًا لكن عند اختلاف نطقها يختلف معناها، مثل الموجودة في اللغات التي ذكرتها أو حتّى اللغة الإنجليزية، ولا سيّما في اللغة العربية باللكنات المختلفة، مع وجود كلمات كهذه في الفصحى أيضًا.
مثل : كلمة «وَجَدْت» تأتي بمعنى «لاقيت الشيء أو الشخص» أو بمعنى «علمت به»
وكلمة «غُروب» تأتي بمعنى «زوال الشمس» أو بمعنى «جمع غَريب» وهو الشخص المجهول.
ولا بد في العربية من التفريق بين «ض» و«ظ» فمثلًا : «الحضيض» هو أسفل سافلين، يعني القاع تمامًا.
في حين أنَّ «الحظيظ» هو الشخص «المحظوظ» «سعيد الحظ»
وغيرها كثير من الأمثلة ..
وهناك بيت شعري يقول :
ألم ألم ألم ألم بدائه
إن آن آن آن آن أوانه
بمعنى : ألم أصاب الجسد ولا أعرف المرض المسبب له، إن حان وقت فهو وقت شفائه.
وبالحركات في العربية تكون هكذا :
أَلمٌ أَلمَّ أَلمْ أُلِمَّ بِدائهِ
إنْ آنَ آنٌ آنَ آنُ أوانهِ
وأيضًا للذين لم يعتادوا القراءة بالعربية يكون الأمر صعب بالبداية؛ لأن الكتابة بالغالب تتم دون رسم الحركات فوق الحروف.
فمثلًا «أما» قد تكون «أَمَا» وقد تكون «أَمَّا» «أَمَا» كلمة للتنبية أو عرض شيء، ويكثر قولها قبل القسم، مثل : «أَمَا والله» و«أَمَّا» تعتبر مرادفة لكلمة لكن.
و«لكن» قد تُقرأ «لكنْ» وقد تُقرأ «لكنَّ»
و«تَقرأ» تختلف عن «تُقرأ» في الصوت تختلف بالطبع ويمكن تمييزها، لكنّني أتحدّث عن شكل الكلمة وحروفها، حيث أنّها نفس الحروف تمامًا.
لمن سيترجم كلامي قد لا يكون الكلام مفهوم بسبب أن المترجم قد لا يترجم الكلمات المتشابهة بالحروف والمختلفة بالحركات، بشكل جيد، حيث يعتمد على الحروف ولا يراعي الحركات وتأثيرها في المعنى.
جزاك الله خيراً ونفعكَ بِعلمْه❤
Great video! Fun fact: Amharic and Japanese have the same syntax.
My definition of syntax: "How we put words together in a sentence to make sense."
Wow I had no idea! Thanks for letting me know 👍
Japanese and Mandarin seem to be difficult. I picked up on the Arabic alphabet a bit easily and some words.
1:40
Note that the pronunciation of "hashi" is reversed in Kanto (roughly Tokyo area) and Kansai (roughly Osaka area).
The video shows the Kanto pronunciation.
To reach the level of a native Japanese speaker, it is also necessary to understand this difference.
Japanese is very hard for not noly foreigner but also 100％ of Japanese.
Exactly lol
その通りです😂
Very intersting video, but the different readings of kanji are a core part of learning to read and a major contributor to the language's difficulty. Kinda surprised you left that out given how good your Japanese sounded!
I am german and I currently study japanese. I don’t know what it feels like to study those other 2 languages but japanese is pretty simple to learn IF you have the motivation for it. I think every language is simple to learn if you have the necessary passion and motivation for it. If you like and learn something about the culture and country (through videos, books or you travel to that country), you automatically learn the language and understand how the language works. So at the end, the difficulty of the language is based on the person learning it.
You can talk about the base and the algorithm in every one of them because that’s what makes it a language.
I have learned Arabic(2) and Japanese(4). Japanese is harder as a native bengali.
片言の外国人が「日本語は簡単」と言い、ほぼネイティブの外国人が「日本語は難しい」と言う不思議😐
A masterpiece video! Btw, I think Mandarin would be very easy to learn if the aim is only the basic communications (around B1 level).
Thank you very much!
As a native English speaker (who also speaks Urdu and Hindu fluently), I have been a student of Arabic for 20 years. I am now an Arabic teacher at high school.
Arabic is difficult because the level of difficulty keeps increasing if you want to get into the incredibly rich cultural and religious Arabic literature.
I think it will take my entire lifetime to reach a good level.
I have met many students who have learned much faster than me, they seem to have be especially gifted.
لذلك أحد العلماء قال اللغة العربية لا يحيط بها إلا نبي.
10:00
10 out of 10 for standard Arabic
I totally agree with you here 🤞😅
Love you from Syria ❤️
Thank you so much!
As an Arab, Iam telling you that modern standard Arabic is nothing compared to Old Arabic it's way harder that even modern Arabs can't understand some of it unless you're reading old arabic poets and writings very often or you are a scholar in the old Arabic language.
But in the other hand the Old Arabic is much more beautiful and able to elaborate and illustrate more than modern standard Arabic.
اخوك من مصر يسطا 😂😂
True
I speak arabic, studied it for years, so it's funny to see your conclusion here bc Chinese and Japanese seem so much more difficult to me. Of course I've never studied them so what do I know.
I was only learning English and Mandarin, English because this is an international language and Mandarin because many people say it's hard(I felt challenged haha) but now I'm focusing on learning English and Modern Standard Arabic first because I want to get a job in Dubai.😙
Thanks to the beautiful video. Arabic native was here 🇵🇸
Thanks for watching 🙏
I'm Japanese, I didn't know Japanese is said to be the fastest spoken language.
Another interesting thing about the language is that it has both vertical and horizontal writing styles.
自分も英語のほうが速いと思っていたのですが、youtubeなどで2倍速にして英語を聞いたら、ゆっくり話すよりとても聞きやすく頭に入ってきました。もちろんバカなので意味はわかりませんが笑
是非、試してみてください。
今では勉強系の動画でゆっくり話されるのが逆にイライラして頭に入ってこなくなりました😅
@@sunsea5555 あまりにゆっくりだと、英語独特の旋律がなくなりますよね、理解はしやすいですが
It is in fact fairly easy for mandarin and English speakers to learn Japanese cause we know first of all, some of the kanjis and second, some commonly used English words, which got transferred in katakana. However, Japanese grammar is a real headache and it takes a long time to memorize things and it's even more complicated when it comes to daily practice.
إيه الجمدان دا كله يا براين
ما شاء الله