Is English one of the hardest languages to learn?

According to language studies the English language is the hardest to learn out of every language, mostly because of pronounciation and the fact that words sound the same and mean different things and some words are spelt the same but can be used in different ways depending on what you're talking about and like you stated words can be pronounced the same but spelt differently and mean different things - another reason is all the "silent syllables" in words.

Is English The Hardest Language

Grammar is complicated, words are huge, pronunciation is hard, and some words used in the past are not used today. Only smart people will master in English. Yes, then, English is ( one of) the hardest language in the world. Some says Chinese is the hardest language to learn. Any language is not hard for using in simple talks. My mother tongue is Malayalam. Even after 30 years in America I am not good in English.

Mandarin Chinese is the hardest, yet, English is a close third behind Arabic.

English: To, Too, Two and Do, Dew, Due...a lot of words sound the same, have different spellings, and separate meanings. Confusing HUH

Yeah, it is either the hardest or the in the top three. English has alot of nonsensical grammar and spellings and homophones and synonyms and stuff. For example, in most languages, you wouldn't have more than twenty different words all meaning "stupid", stupid would simply be stupid. Kind of stupid to have 20 words for stupid, isn't it? If you had that many words for stupid, would stupid people be able to understand all of the stupid synonyms?

English is not a bad language, it is just so complex that you can be living here for your whole life and have a college degree and still make grammatical errors.

that's what i heard also because of all the silent letters and vowels and such. but kinda hard to give a yes or no answer when english was my 1st language. i work at a school with mainly hispanic kids and about 90% of them come to kindergarden with little to no enlish and its amazing that at the end of the year they're fluent and can hold convos with you in english. but then again 5 year olds are little sponges and can pick up on things really fast

yes if your not born into it I would say one of the hardest ones

to learn !

apparently, english is the hardest to learn(master). other languages dont have grammar.

chinese language is easy(its only remembering the how to write the words thats hard)

no way. i'm romanian.. romanian is the 4th hardest language.

every noun is either feminine or masculine..

the verb changes when put next to a person..

the grammar is freakin hard..

same thing with french, spanish, italian, etc. english is really easy, try arabic, chinese, romanian, german, etc.

No try learning Farsi or any of the Indo' european languages like hindi, urdu etc. They're impossible for someone who doesn't already know them.