D.
Algunas personas parecen aprender idiomas fácilmente, mientras que otros lo encuentran muy difícil. Los maestros y las circunstancias en las que se aprende el idioma también desempeñan un papel importante, así como la motivación de cada estudiante para aprender. Si la gente aprende un idioma porque necesita usarlo profesionalmente, a menudo lo aprende más rápido que las personas que estudian un idioma que no tiene un uso directo en su vida cotidiana.
The hardest language
People
often ask which is the most difficult language to learn, and it is not easy
to answer because there are many factors to take into consideration. Firstly,
in a first language the differences are unimportant as people learn their
mother tongue naturally, so the question of how hard a language is to learn
is only relevant when learning a second language.
A native
speaker of Spanish, for example, will find Portuguese much easier to learn
than a native speaker of Chinese, for example, because Portuguese is very
similar to Spanish, while Chinese is very different, so first language can
affect learning a second language. The greater the differences between the
second language and our first, the harder it will be for most people to
learn. Many people answer that Chinese is the hardest language to learn,
possibly influenced by the thought of learning the Chinese writing system,
and the pronunciation of Chinese does appear to be very difficult for many
foreign learners. However, for Japanese speakers, who already use Chinese characters in their own language,
learning writing will be less difficult than for speakers of languages using
the Roman alphabet.
[ Some people seem to learn languages
readily, while others find it very difficult. Teachers and the circumstances
in which the language is learned also play an important role, as well as each
learner's motivation for learning. If people learn a language because they need to use it
professionally, they often learn it faster than people studying a language
that has no direct use in their everyday life.
Apparently,
British diplomats and other embassy staff have found that the second hardest
language is Japanese, which will probably not be a surprise to many people, but
they have discovered that
the most problematic language is Hungarian, which has 35 cases (forms of a
nouns according to whether it is subject, object, genitive, etc.). ] This does not mean that Hungarian is the
hardest language to learn for everyone, but it causes British diplomatic personnel, who are generally accustomed
to learning languages, the most difficulty.
Different
cultures and individuals from those cultures will find different languages
more difficult. In the case of Hungarian for British learners, it is not a
question of the writing system, which
uses a similar alphabet, but the grammatical complexity, though native
speakers of related languages may find it easier, while struggling with
languages that the British find relatively easy.
No language
is easy to learn well, though languages which are related to our first
language are easier. Learning a completely different writing system is a huge
challenge, but that does not necessarily make a language more difficult than
another. In the end, it is impossible to say that there is one language that
is the most difficult language in the world.
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