5 Hardest Languages To Learn

Have you ever wondered what the 5 hardest language to learn are? With the world becoming more and more globalized, it’s no surprise that more and more people have a desire to learn a new language. It’s almost impossible nowadays to not know English if your company deals with foreign countries or if you want to travel. That right there is a good chunk of people on this earth! So which countries are giving language learners a hard time?

I think first we need to ask yourself, what is the first language of the person we are speaking about? Of course someone who is Chinese will have a far easier time learning Thai than an English speaker. Asian languages will have more commonality with each other than English. There are 5 of the easiest languages to learn for English speakers, which is great, but which are the hardest? If English is your first language, I’m sorry to say, you’re going to have one tough time learning these 5 languages, but you can do it! We have faith…Just start soon so you’re fluent before you are 60.

5. Icelandic

The main reason why this language is on this list is due to the fact that there is such a small number of people speaking it, the resources are very few and far between. The spelling seems to use nearly every letter in the alphabet and this creates mass confusion when trying to learn new words that contain 15 letters. Despite actually using our same letters (yay!) the spelling difficulty and dissimilarity to other languages is why this is a difficult language to learn.

4. Chinese

A language that resembles absolutely nothing of English, unless you count fun random sketchings as a language, is Chinese. Many feel being able to write a language can help you speak it, there’s no denying this, but with Chinese, the writing is very particular. There’s only one way to write these confusing characters and any straying away from it can cause confusion. Also, grammatical structures are of the most important and right after that, tone. These two hefty lesson combos would give anyone a headache.

3. Japanese

Japanese can be even more difficult that Chinese in some sense. Their multitude of possible characters might seem endless and their structures are so different than English, you might poke your eyes out with your chopsticks. If you think having one writing system is challenging enough, how about three? Yes, there are three writing systems in Japanese and the alphabets differ for each. It might seem like you’re learning three languages at some points. Linguistic structures can even change depending on who you’re speaking to, like an elderly person for example.

2. Korean

Surprise! Another Asian language. It’s obvious that Asian languages are the hardest for us English speakers to learn, and why? Mostly because of how vastly different it is from our own home language. Everything seems to be opposite or perhaps nonexistent in our language, and Korean is no different. Its sentence structure reasonables almost nothing from ours. When you’re describing an action, the subject is placed first, then the object being acted on, and then the actual action. There is also different language used when speaking to certain people, again like an elderly, and the alphabet is somewhat confusing in ways similar to the Chinese alphabet.

1. Arabic

No, those arent a two year olds doodlings, that’s something written in Arabic, I don’t speak it and I don’t intend on learning. Good luck with this number one hardest language to learn. It’s a doozy, but why? Well, first, it reasonables nothing of English. There’s nothing to compare to. Of course the alphabet is something totally different, and speaking of the alphabet, vowels are super important to us! Vowels? What vowels in Arabic? Oh, you mean the little extra scribbles around the letter. Yep, those are the vowels. Want another surprise? Everyday text doesn’t come with the vowels written in, you just have to know the word.. Have fun.

Here are just 5 of the hardest languages to learn, but there are certainly more that prove to be quite difficult. This list is not inclusive, and again, depends what your native tongue is as well. Which language would you want to be fluent in? Happy learning!