What is the most difficult language in the world?
Thai – it has 47 consonants and they don’t pronounce any of them! When spoken by natives, it typically sounds like deaf mutes cussing each other out. Like Chinese, it’s a tonal language, but due to their inability to articulate consonants clearly (and often not at all), there are about 360 different words that sound more or less like “kai”, and as many that sound like “cow”. It’s easier to read than hear, but only for simple mundane topics. Almost all multi-syllabic words are just combinations of little squatty words – e.g. “slippers” are “long-tao-sai-nai-bahn” which litterally means “put on foot inside house”. When talking of any complex or sophisticated subject (politics, art, religion, science, history, math, economics, etc.) the vocabulary is entirely inadequate but that doesn’t stop them from trying by running all sorts of squatty little words together and just assuming that you get the gist. Fact is, not even Thais can understand what other Thais write on these subjects. Oh, and
