哪种语言最难学？外媒做了个排名，中文果然高居榜首
The Hardest Languages To Learn For English Speakers

Every Chinese word must be memorized separately as you can't guess its pronunciation from the script — but one could say the same of English if you consider plough, dough and tough.每个中文字都需要独立记忆，因为你无法从他们的书写方式中猜出读音——不过英语也差不多，想想plough（/plaʊ/ 犁）、dough（/dəʊ/ 生面团）和tough（ /tʌf/ 强硬的）这三个单词。

There are four tones in Mandarin: high pitch, rising pitch, falling low then rising and falling — and if you think that's difficult, there are nine tones in Cantonese.普通话里有四个声调：即阴平（第一声），阳平（第二声），上声（第三声），去声（第四声）。如果这你就觉得难了，粤语中还有9个声调呢。

In Mandarin, there is a whole poem, "The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den" with just the syllable "shi" repeated in various intonations.

A country that's enriched the world with sushi, karaoke and manga, Japan has many devotees, especially among gamers and geeks.作为一个用寿司、卡拉OK和漫画来丰富这个世界的国家，日本拥有许多“粉丝”，尤其是游戏玩家和电脑迷们。

But they are confronted with an extremely challenging language that uses imported Chinese characters cut off from their original meaning as well as two syllabaries — Hiragana and Katakana (you must learn when to use which).

What Japanese you speak also depends on your gender. There's a "rough" language for men and a more "ladylike" language for women, but you must understand both.日语怎么说还与你的性别有关。这里分别有一种“粗野”的男性用语和“优雅端庄”的女性用语。但这两种用语你都要理解。

The direction of reading and the cursive script are the two major hurdles for Arab learners.对阿拉伯语学习者来说，阅读方向和潦草的书写是两大主要的障碍。

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Hidden behind a Cyrillic veil of mystery, it's one of the harder languages to master, so much so that even many Russians speak it incorrectly.作为一门隐藏在斯拉夫字母神秘面纱背后的语言，俄语是较难掌握的语言之一。甚至有许多俄罗斯人都会说错。

Any literature, music and ballet buff or aspiring astronaut — Russian is a mandatory subject at NASA — should study a language with over 500,000 words (some up to 38 characters long).

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With nouns that are masculine, feminine and neutral, verbs that conjugate heavily and an extremely strict syntax, German may appear insurmountable to start with.德语中的名词的阳、阴、中性，动词复杂的词形变化，以及极其严苛的语法句法可能成为很多初学者望而却步的理由。

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They share many words with English, but it's that common vocabulary that creates "false friends" — words in different languages that look or sound similar, but differ significantly as meanings have drifted with time. 这些语言和英语共用许多词汇，但有时同样的词汇可能也会带来“同形异义词”。不同语言中的词汇可能看起来或听起来相似，但其意思已随着时间的推移发生了巨大的转变。