The Hardest Thing About Each Language

love how you tried triggering as many people as possible with the flags

You killed me with the selection of flags, especially for portuguese

As an arab, i'm really blown away by the fact that he can pronounce the letters " ع " " خ" and " ح " correctly ! like 99% of non-arabs can't pronounce them and instead they just use the sounds of "k" , "A or O " and " H " respectively

Before getting into Korean I thought the alphabet was going to be really hard to grasp upon looking at it, but the fact is it's actually so easy and intuitive as it's completely phonetical (with some different pronunciation rules here and there). Basically after going through the alphabet for 30mins - an hour you're able to pretty much read Korean more or less.

As a Norwegian I’m speechless, offended, and my day is ruined.

My man bought a waifu pillow just to throw it in the garbage. A fucking CHAD right there

I love Norwegian. Great to hear you agree. You seem to be speachless because of the simple greatness of this language.

2:24 just stop resisting

Japanese learners try not to be incredibly strange challenge (impossible)

I understand that Polish has a lot of glitches but I am kindly to inform you that Polish is in the early access, currently at 0.69 update. Many Poles living in Poland are also upset about many of those bugs you mentioned, that's why you rarely see any Pole smiling. Our dev team is trying their hardest to chisel out those bugs and make the experience better. We are expecting full 1.0 release of Polish in 2067 but that's optimistic seeing. The pessimistic one is that Polish 1.0 will release in 2108

The worst part about any languaje is that sometimes every one of them express the exact same thing in a completely different way, all of which kind of make sense, and when you try to say something in a different way that also makes sense, suddenly, what you say doesn't make sense. Sometimes, it's different for every thing. For example, let's say someone wants to express that a thing makes them feel scared, depending on the languaje they could say it like this: I have fear I scared It scary I'm fearful I feel fear I am scared It scares me I am scared It scares It gives fear It put fear on me I put scare on it It is feared It is feared by me I fear it It calms not I calmed not I'm not calmed Fear it Scare me

as a turk, yes, we do have long words actually. because there is always a suffix after suffix.. which never ends. and i think another one of the hardest things about turkish is that normally the verb is at the end of the sentence and you put the object between subject and the verb, which sometimes makes me forget what i was gonna say. the suffix the object takes changes according to the verb you're using, so you should already know what you're gonna say before you start forming the sentence. of course, it's flexible and we understand what you mean even if you use the wrong suffix

0:27 French 🇫🇷 0:54 Latin 1:16 Japanese 🇯🇵 1:39 Russian 🇷🇺 2:23 Arabic 🇸🇦 2:48 Chinese 🇨🇳🇹🇼 3:19 American 🇺🇸 3:38 Spanish 🇪🇸 4:17 Portuguese 🇵🇹 4:37 Turkish 🇹🇷 4:54 Italian 🇮🇹 5:22 Danish 🇩🇰 5:34 Swedish 🇸🇪 6:00 Norwegian 🇳🇴 6:07 Dutch 🇳🇱 6:31 Polish 🇵🇱 6:53 AASL 🇦🇱 7:11 Korean 🇰🇵🇰🇷 7:26 German 🇩🇪 (I love how he used 🇦🇹 instead lol) 7:41 Tagalog 🇵🇭 8:03 Esperanto

As an arab, I think arabic grammer "إعراب" is the hardest thing in the language. We study Arabic for 12 yrs in school and we still make grammatical mistakes when we speak original arabic Edit: I'm famous now, *Hi MOM!*

As a Puerto Rican language enthusiast I was dying of laughter from the Spanish section and the Dutch comment was pretty accurate too. My feelings are also exactly the same when it comes to Russian Mandarin Portuguese and Italian

As someone that's been living in Sweden for a year your Swedish impression had me rolling on the floor in laughter for how accurate it was. They really do engage Stitch mode from Lilo and Stitch here.

I really hated cases when I started to learn German. I can't imagine how people feel when they learn Russian, hehe. I'm a native and never realized how difficult it is. I really admire those who mastered Russian grammar. You're just great!

_"Italians really do talk like Mario and Luigi"_ That is absolutely an exaggeration *_speaks like Mario and Luigi_* Nevermind, you're absolutely correct

5:45 "let me engage my Swedish accent real quick" causaliy chokes

The part about german is actually true. Sometimes when I'm typing a long sentence like that, I legit forget what I wanted to actually say and then I end up with a sentence that's super long but doesn't actually contain any information

6:31 The polish flag and the Indonesian flag being swapped was genius

“They don’t speak Tagalog, they speak Taglish” 🤣 So true. You’ll have to go to the rural areas of Tagalog speaking areas to fully practice your Tagalog. By the way, modern Tagalog (the mix between Tagalog and Spanish) is technically called Filipino. Tagalog is the pure language.

Loved this, was hoping you'd talk about Finnish as that's what I'm trying to learn at the moment. And yes you are right, there aren't a lot of good material online for it. It's exhausting.

English is hard because its writing is far from phonetic, especially for vowels (throw, toe, though, yo); there are more sounds than many languages; it has articles; many rules have exceptions; there are many different sentence structures. Learners from other languages are often surprised that English speakers "can say the same thing in 8 different ways".

what you said about arabic is 100% TRUE, I studied arabic for 5 years and instead of becoming a fluent speaker I became an Islamic scholar and Now I give "Fatwas" to government leaders.

Here I thought that Language Simp has uploaded another joke video with biased statements about random languages, But to my surprise this video turned out to be very informative and objective. Now I know why I really should study Latin and why Danish is superior to Swedish. Also as a Japanese learner I do sympathize with the struggle you mentioned, been there. Cheers.

Keep going brother you are a role model to me.👍⚡ I'm a beginner polyglot I can speak. English and Arabic perfectly Italian and German and french so so but I still have to learn a lot. Good luck to me and everyone.

I love this video Also for people learning Dutch, (6:08) You don't have to put so much force onto the G Alot of ppl nowadays speak a softer G rather then the intense G we used to. Also if you have a rlly soft g ppl will just assume you're from Limburg every now and then so it isn't a big deal We are impressed enough if you manage to speak Dutch at all :)

"The hardest part of learning Japanese is resisting the temptation to base your entire personality off the fact that you study Japanese" That's funny shit right there I tell you hwat, I know too many people like this

Should I make a part 2? What languages should I include?

Greek: Trying tο accurately pronounce γ or δ or χ or double vowels. Using Γεια σου or Γεια σας can be difficult. or saying ευχαριστώ because if sometimes you use φ instead of χ. Or remembering ς is at the end of words ending with s instead of using σ. or remembering when to use η instead if ι.

as a brazilian I can confirm that trying to speak spanish sometimes gets hard because my bran just stops working and I no longer know if I'm speaking portuguese or spanish (or maybe just randomly mixing both languages lol). Whenever I have the need to talk to someone whose language is Spanish I always ask if they can speak English because it's gonna be just easier to understand each other lol

I speak a few european languages and I can confirm: The hardest thing about french is the fact they only pronounce 1% of the word (like in Qu'est-ce que you only pronounce like the "qeceqe" part) The hardest thing about English is that they have 1 million different ways to pronounce a few letters like: Trough ("oo" sound) Though ("oh" shound) Touch ("o/u" sound) Tough ("off" sound) Etc. The gardest thing about German is that the article differs depending on gender/plural and context Like der Mann des Mannes dem Mann den Mann die Frau der Frau Hardest thing about Dutch is the number of exceptations in Dutch. Like "Jongen" (boy) allways is "De jongen" (gendered atricle) Unless its a small boy "Het jongentje" (neutral article) The past participle of a word allways ends on a D (like in "Ik heb gerend") unless the "stam" (verb without "en" of a word (like "gokken" becomes "gokk-")) ends on a t,k,f,s,c,h,p or x. Than it ends on a "t" (Ik heb Gegokt)

5:32 that’s what she said

4:43 As a Turkish speaker, i will answer your question. Turkish language is a language that you can add things to the end of the words. For example: ağaç (tree), ağaçlar (trees), ağaçlara (to trees)

As a Hungarian I think the thing most people trying to recreationally learn the language mess up are the pronunciation of letters. The issue is, that we literally have an entirely phonetic alphabet and in order to have enough letters for all basic sounds there are a few double letters. This literally means that certain combinations of letters next to each other are treated as an entirely different letter. The topic where this comes up most often is how 'Budapest' is pronounced because 's' in and of itself is the same sound as the first letter of 'sure' while 'sz' (a double letter) is the way English pronunces 's' in the alphabet. Anyways, people often hear how we have a phonetic language and try to say the words but sound somewhat silly and very obviously foreign by misinterpreting what sound letters actually stand for.

As a dutch person I must say that the g used to hurt a lot when I was about 5 or 4 years old but my throat just reinforced itself throughout the years and now my throat is about as effective as wall as the great wall of china used to be in ancient china

I love how he started with a sentence half in Arabic and half in Russian.

3:31 my boy started speaking in simlish

5:18 will forever be the best thing recorded and said in human history. Change my mind.

As a Dane I laughed so hard when you compared Swedish to Danish

No no no, Turkish is really really easy, just have look at this sentence: "Yabancılaştıramadıklarımızdansa Türkçeleştirebildiklerimizi öğrenebiliyormuşuzcasına konuşabiliyorduk." P.S. Do not try to translate this in Google Translate. Every time someone does, a server at Google screams in terror and melts down.

as a portuguese speaker who's currently learning spanish just because it's extremely similar to portuguese, I see this as an absolute win

As someone who studies German, those are exactly my feelings. I feel like I'm advancing at everything about the language but still, when I make a sentence, the urge to use the verb normally instead of dispatching it to the the very end of it is just irresistible.

Language Simp: *complains about the many grammatical cases in Russian and lack of spaces in Turkish words* Finnish and Hungarian: *eyes glowing, levitating off the ground*

3:57 Calling Chileans “Chilies” 🤣

As a Dutch person living abroad, (and thus not speaking Dutch daily anymore), I can honestly say that I now indeed get pain in my throat when I do speak Dutch at length. Spot on!

in South Africa, we have 11 official languages! one of them is Afrikaans, which is very easy to learn. It actually is like easy dutch. It would be interesting if you tried learning it!

6:01 my reaction to that information

6:39 the poles are just bees in human shape

Your Norwegian blows my mind. It is pure perfection. ❤

6:20 I think that’s the reason, why Dutch people switch to English so easily: They will take every excuse to switch to English, just to give their throat a rest. 😅🇳🇱

You should definitely learn Persian. It's a beautiful language that has the same Alphabet as Arabic but with 4 more letters. It's grammer is a little bit complicated but you'll love it when you read the poems and understand the meaning.

5:50 That Swedish accent was horrendous 😄

I have been speaking Spanish all my life and the hardest parts about Spanish are the cases. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve been corrected on one word alone.

If one filipino tried to talk 'tagalog', then the whole crowd would be shocked. Im a filipino and thats what i could imagine.

As a Finn, I was really hurt by the fact that you didn't include Finnish

As a japanese learner i was a complete weeb but when i started learning japanese it actually did the opposite and now i cant stand being a weeb

I used to have to do Duolingo in school. I was doing Russian at first, then I got bored and tried giving Arabic a shot. And then this video comes along and shows Russian and Arabic consecutively.

As an Italian, I can confirm that your pronunciation is correct.

I know I'm going to regret it, but I'd surely like to have your opinion on "American Southern" and "American Northern" dialects. Since American is obviously the best language, I'm curious how you subdivide the two dialects. Thank you Language Simp; You inspire us all.

The hard part about British American is the gendered national anthem: you must be aware of the gender of the reigning monarch at all times, or you’ll mess up the anthem by the fourth word. If you’re learning British American to be a soccer hooligan, that mistake is really bad.

1:30 As a Japanese and English learner, I laughed at your speech so much Ahaha

i got so unmotivated learning norwegian that i stopped and started learning french 💀 i wanna pick up norwegian again but im in a spot where i know too much for beginner courses but too little for advanced

Italian here, the word "Gli" doesn't really have any word that can sound similar in English, however it is similar to "yee", the letters "gl" when followed by an "i" are a digraph (namely two letters that represent a single sound), and are therfore pronounced "lyee" or "yee" as in the words "figli", "aglio" or "fogli" which are pronounced "feelyee", "alyeeo" and "foyee" however I want to point out how the "g" isn't almost pronounced at all, even though "gl" when followed by any other vowel is pronounced just as in English "glass", "glow", "glum", etc... btw at 6:32 is that done on purpose?

China - Taiwan, Spain - Mexico, Portugal - Mozambique, South/North Korea - North Korea, Germany - Austria seems legit.

Korean has the easiest alphabet: 굴 is a syllable using the three letters ㄱ and ㅜ and ㄹ. Hard things: Chinese, Japanese and Hindi have difficult writing systems. Korean, Japanese and Turkish all put the verb at the end of the sentence. Some European languages have many word endings (verb conjugations and noun declensions). Some languages have a gender for each noun (and sometimes the adjectives).

I liked (and can confirm) the russian part about cases and the german part about the verb (or more precisely the prefix of the verb) which has to land in the end of the phrase. I'd also add the capital letters for all nouns (so you could search in dictionnary and dont find the words which turn out to be the names) and congregation 2-3-4 words in one word (like the tall boy in a red sweater would be Redsweateredtallboy - the first reaction of your brain, seeing such word, is to be immediately tiered and want to do something else instead of learnign German).

"Why is the D so soft?" - Polyglots in 2022

I find it incredibly challenging to not sound like Rammstein when i speak German.

I'm learning Greek and I have a hard time with not sounding drunk. The soft δ sound always makes me sound like I'm slurring

I'm glad you recovered after the last stream ✊🏻

Some of the words from your home village in Pennsylvania jumped out at me because they’re the same words that you used in the video about levels of fluency in American. “Tim lupen mezzerchop Moser mitchen camp man nortfurt probel any sanfel…”. I doing an independent study of your language so if you could guide me towards any other resources I’d be really mezzerchop.

Išmok lietuvių kalbą, jei iššūkio norėtumėt. I love your channel!

The worst thing about Russian is not the cases. It's the stress patterns. If you start learning Russian you have to learn the stress patterns of the first 100-200 words (and on as you keep learning) to be able to speak.

4:41 believe me it's my first language but i dont understand this word at all. I mean in Turkish, words that you use everyday are not that long. Someone just tried to do the longest word with the suffixes (you add some attachment at the end of the word in Turkish) in this language and they were so successful

the silence he made for norwegian 😂 im learning it rn and tbh it rly is easy, the only thing hard abt it is the dialects, like everytime im tryna find a vid tat teaches in norwegian in the dialect tat im learning i end up finding another dialect, but tats its only complication lol

just randomly found this channel and this video is hilarious 😂 subbing now!

Urdu is my family’s home countries’ language, and I’ve been in and out of learning the written form. I tend to struggle with putting the letters together when pronouncing. Urdu grammar is also a bit much as someone who grew up speaking a hodgepodge of potwari, mirpuri and urdu… I plan on picking it back up soon but am currently pre-occupied by Russian, and eventually after Urdu, wanting to re-learn Spanish and Italian

2:33 AAIIN aAAIIN FOCD OF

I’m learning Hungarian now and the hardest thing is the lexicon because the grammar seems pretty logical but you can’t remember many words with the associations with another European languages so you only have to learn them by heart

When he showed how to say book in Russian, I thought that he was kidding and that he had replaced the actual Russian word with that certain English word that starts with N and that many people from a certain ethnicity don't like at all. And seriously, excepting the K at the beginning, the other Russian letters are: *H* which correspond to *N* in English, *И* corresponds to *I,* and *Г* corresponds to *G.* Needless to say *a* is also *a* in the plural form of _"book"_ in Russian.

Besides the hard parts of Japanese that you mentioned like spending your entire life savings on body pillows and figurines, pitch accent can be pretty hard too.

Lived in Lille and have to say it’s mostly the elderly or the rural areas where you can face accent differences but even then communication is not at all an issue, yes they sometimes have other words for things but most of them won’t speak in dialect to a foreigner who obviously is not a native

french 0:28 latin 0:55 japanese 1:16 russian 1:39 arabic 2:23 chinese 2:48 american (english) 3:18 spanish 3:38 portuguese 4:17 turkish 4:37 italian 4:55 danish 5:22 swedish 5:33 norwegian 6:01 dutch 6:06 polish 6:30 AASL (albanian) 6:52 korean 7:11 german 7:26 tagalog 7:41 esperanto 8:01

5:11 grazie per avermi fatto ridere, ci sono però dei piccoli problemi ad esempio il fatto che nn hai usato i pronomi possessivi ( non LO parlo molto bene) , lo so che è uno scherzo quindi nn parlerò del fatto che nn abbiamo una voce così acuta

7:33 right! I always have to look at the very end of the sentence to understand it 😂 7:45 also right! Tagalog is my native language and I know way more of the English vocabulary that Tagalog.

6:07 ooohhh en het is zo waar 💀 Dutch people kind of wanna show off their English when speaking to a foreigner

Hi i speak farsi (aka iranian) The two hardest thing about farsi are that literally everyone thinks you are talking arabic. But the second thing is that if you wanna learn farsi... U need to learn LIKE A THOUSAND poetry books too. Like BRO there is a book called (kings letter) and its a thousand pages of PURE POETRY. And the funny part is that most modern iranians literally understand NONE of it. I read the 1 first page and i was like "yeah i give up"

Thank you for this incredibly informative video mr simp. After watching this, I am now discouraged from learning Polish despite living in Poland for my whole life. There's just too many challenges and I even thought Polish flag looks completely different. This whole country's just a glitch.

Farsi is fun to learn, they are on rosetta stone and there are a few podcasts on spotify like chai and conversation. It uses arabic script (the best one) and the sounds are pretty similar to arabic, at least from my really bad arabic skills.

4:49 as a turkish we forgot space bars and this word exist but we can say it so it stayed like that and I can say it fast

7:27 The Austrian flag.

I didn't expect the "até logo" sign-off there, lol. Bro, the fact that you *chose* to learn the Castilian dialect/accent in Spanish kinda blows my mind. I attended a pt-br/es-es high school and that's where I learned Spanish, but every time I would interact with any Latin Americans in Spanish, they would just rip on me for sounding like a fucking Spaniard, lmao. I've since been able to better assimilate a more generic Latin American accent through interactions with Venezuelans and Peruvians at work and in my personal life. But yeah, gigachad though you may be, that Castilian accent sounds pretentious af coming outta you as an American, ngl, RIP, sorry. But I love your videos! :D

As a Polish, I personally think the hardest thing in our language is cases, just like in Russian. The consonant stacks are beckause there are many double-lettters (?; we call it dwuznaki), like ch or sh in English. But I believe it is hard to pronounce

6:23 Well, I speak Dutch and survive by having a West-Flemish accent: I rarely pronounce the 'h' and pronounce the 'g' and 'ch' as 'h'. Like what I would say when I am speaking Dutch: hoejemorh'n makker. Because West-Flemish is like Dutch, but then the Gigachad version. PS: Dutch has by the way kinda the same thing as German as in 7:40.

Greek is like what you said about Russian but Russian doesn't have articles while Greek has 3 gendered articles and they all have the singular and plural table. Ancient Greek is a bonus because it has more ways to say the same words/articles. Also the grammar in Ancient Greek resembles what you said about German too with their uses of infinitive but it is even harder and weirder because of the multiple infinitives verbs can have.

Let me take a moment to appreciate how well you pronounced the soft D. Also, what you said about Dutch people switching language when you make a mistake would probably apply to us Danes too.

As italian,the 'gli' Is pronunced like the portuguese 'lhe' and its used like this:'A lui gli piace la pizza' or he likes pizza.Also can you do language review for italian?

BRUH so true. here in the philippines you'd be really hard pressed to find anyone who ONLY speaks tagalog. that's why we give foreigners weird looks when they speak straight tagalog even if they didn't make any errors at all