Language is the most important thing in modern human civilization. Imagine if we lived without language, and relied on ancient symbols like civilizations of the past.
Undoubtedly, language plays a very important role in interacting. The rapid development of languages has recorded world histories we have learned since colleges, such as Greek, Sanskrit, and Greek.
Below is the list of the five most popular in the world.
1. Chinese
Chinese or Mandarin is the most difficult language to learn in the world. In China, there have 2 Chinese languages, Mandarin and Cantonese, but the more commonly used is Mandarin.
The difficulty in learning Chinese lies in the tone of the pronunciation and intonation of each word. The tone of tone contained in the Mandarin language is divided into 5 parts, namely:
- First Note – high pitch intonation. (b? meaning eight)
- Second Note – tone of pitch rises or rises (meaning to pull out).
- Third Note – tone intonation decreases then rises (b? Meaning to hold).
- Fourth Note – decreased tone of tone (bà meaning father).
- Neutral Note – flat tone (meaning usually used at the end of a sentence).
Another difficulty is that there are around 80,000 characters and you must master at least 3000-3500 words to be able to have a normal conversation with other people. For comparison, to be able to read 1 newspaper in Mandarin you need at least 3000 words.
Arabic is one of the difficult languages because there are various kinds of Arabic dialects. There are at least 13 grammars in Arabic that are used every day in general conversation. If we write words on a piece of paper starting from left to right, then Arabic writing starts from right to left, of course, you have to get used to writing the inverted sentence.
Arabic also has a plural consonant, for example, if in English you want to say something has more than 1, you will add the letter “S” at the end of words such as Student to Students. But in Arabic student = Talib, while students = tulab.
The Japanese language has 3 characters that are usually used, namely Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Kanji is a word character that has similarities to Chinese if you need at least 3000 Chinese words, in your kanji only requires at least 2000 words.
While Hiragana and Katakana, there are 46 characters so that the total becomes 96 and if added with the pronunciation of the tone becomes 102. If in each language sometimes has a tone of tone, then Japan does not have a special tone of tone, it’s just that the pronunciation of each word sometimes has its own intonation related to feelings.
Japanese has their own conveniences, if usually when we ask someone something we will use the subject and object then in Japanese you can leave the word. Example: “Have you eaten?”, Whereas in Japanese only need to say the word “tabeta?” (meaning: eating?) to the person being asked.
Although classified as one of the most difficult foreign languages in the world, it turns out that Korean has a consonant of words that are easy to learn. Korean also has different pronunciation of words to show respect to someone who is older. Usually, the word of honor is shown at the beginning of a conversation and at the end of a sentence.
Greek has a language that shows its own gender characteristics such as for women, men, and neutral. So that the pronunciation at the end of a sentence shows directly to who we are talking to, the verb pronunciation is also influenced by people, moods, numbers, and circumstances.
