联合国教科文调查:世界上最难学的语言排名: 1-汉语(中国) 2-希腊语(希腊) 3-阿拉伯语(阿拉伯) 4-冰岛语(冰岛) 5-日语(日本) 6-芬兰语(芬兰) 7-德语(德国) 8-挪威语(挪威) 9-丹麦语(丹麦) 10-法语(法国) 语言的难易程度和文化密切相关。一个国家的文化越丰富其语言也越深奥。如果抛开文化因素孤立地谈语言(这显得有点有幼稚),那么最难学的大概是爱斯基摩语。请看下文: People thinking about the origin of language for the first time usually arrive at the conclusion that it developed gradually as a system of grunts, hisses and cries and must have been a very simple affair in the beginning. However, when we observe the language behaviour of what we regard as primitive cultures,we find it surprisingly complicated. It was believed that an Eskimo must have the tip of his tongue a vocabulary of more than 10,000 words so as to get along reasonably well, much larger than the active vocabulary of an average businessman who speaks English.Moreover, these Eskimo words are far more highly infleeted than those of any of the well -known European languages,for a single noun can be spoken or written in several hundred different forms, each having a precise meaning different from that of any other. The forms of the verbs are even more numerous. The Eskimo language is, therefore,one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn, with the result that almost no traders or explorers have even tried to learn it. ... 请注意第二段的第二句话。
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