According to 'Babbel', which language is the most difficult language to learn for English speakers?

Mandarin also has a fifth tone called a "no tone" which is used at the end of a sentence to indicate a question. e.g. Ni tso shen ma What are you doing? Literally You do what, eh? with the ma being the no tone question particle.

Player Alexandra, I'll never know how foreigners learn to speak English, there are so many contradictions in it. Even the i before e except after c rule, which I learned in primary school, has been abandoned because so many new words break the rule. Bough and cough look as if they should sound the same when spoken, but don't, the list is endless.

I'll stick to English, but I want to learn spanish, as well.

Timoteo, very cool, good info.

Languages are in 3 categories. #1 the easiest are most European languages; they are grouped and have much in common verb wise etc. #2 is harder and includes English and Russian. #3 is the most difficult and includes Asian and Arabic languages.

basically, it's depends on your pronunciation can change the meaning of

My daughter is fluent in French, Mandarin and English. She can speak Spanish and some Cantonese.

Sounds ridiculous, didn't they want to communicate with the rest of the world, or with each other? 🙄

English confusing. park on driveway. drive on parkway?

As a Greek native speaker English wasn't a very challenging language. Russian on the other hand is a difficult language but also very intriguing

Our children speak 4 languages, Spanish, English, Dutch and Papiamentu. But our daughter is really into Asian languages also, and was trying to learn Korean and she takes French at school

ShellSeller, I've attended Easter mass at Paris' Cathedrale de Nôtre Dame twice. Mass was spoken in Latin, French, & English. Quite beautiful.

Player ShellSeller, I loved the Latin mass, it had a certain mystery to it, and was virtually the same all over the world..

I was always told Hungarian as there are no Anglicised words to be recognised, so as to connect unfamiliar words together with..

How did we move from Mandarin to Spanish ¿

monyray1967, I am learning Spanish,it's easy and enjoyable😀