It’s interesting how speakers of different languages have different perceptions about what is a difficult and inconceivable language. This is primarily shown in how they describe something they find difficult to understand. While English speakers use the phrase “it’s all Greek to me” to mean that they can’t understand something, speakers of other languages use the same analogy but they reference other languages, not necessarily Greek. So, we’ve asked our followers at The Language Nerds about the equivalent of “it’s all Greek to me” in their languages and they were generous enough to provide highly valuable responses that we summed up here for you. Have a good read ?
1. Cantonese (Hong Kong)
It’s all chicken’s intestines to me.
2. Mandarin
It’s all Martian to me.
3. Portuguese
It’s all Chinese to me.
It’s all Greek to me.
4. Bulgarian
It’s Greek and therefore unreadable.
5. German
It sounds like Spanish to me.
I only understand train station.
6. Greek
It’s all Chinese to me.
7. Moroccan Arabic
It’s the language of the ghosts to me.
8. Italian
It’s all Arabic to me.
9. French
It’s all Chinese to me.
10. Czech
It’s a Spanish village to me.
11. Polish
It’s Chinese to me.
It’s all black magic to me.
12. Danish
It’s Volapyk to me. (Volapyk is the first auxiliary language ever created).
It’s all Russian to me.
13. Egyptian Arabic:
Is this the hieroglyphics?
14. Turkish
It’s all French to me.
15. Finnish
It’s all Hebrew to me.
16. Swedish
It sounds like Greek to me.
17. Croatian
It’s like you’re speaking Hungarian.
It’s all Turkish villages to me.
18. Burmese
It looks like fried bean sprouts.
19. Syrian Arabic
This is Sanskrit to me.
20. Thai
It’s an alien language to me.
21. Catalan
It sounds like Chinese.
22. Icelandic
This is Hebrew to me .
23. Japanese
This is Gibberish to me.
24. Latvian
It’s the Chinese alphabet.
25. Persian
I don’t understand Greek.
26. Macedonian
That’s a Spanish village to me.
27. Punjabi
Am I speaking Farsi?
28. Yiddish
It’s Aramaic to me.
Here is an illustration that sums up the above:

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