Interestingly, the hardest language to learn is also the most widely spoken native language in the world. mandarin chinese is challenging for a number of reasons. first and foremost, the writing system is extremely difficult for english speakers (and anyone else) accustomed to the latin alphabet. in. Many people i have met (especially natives of the languages) have insisted that german, french, japanese, chinese, hungarian, spanish, italian, irish, english and many more are the hardest language in the world and been absolutely convinced of it.. Actually, i think chinese is the hardest language in the world. lol. when i was a child, i always heard about foreigners complain how hard is chinese language to learn, as a native speaker, i did not agree that till i went to the university, learning how to teach chinese to foreign students..
The fsi trains diplomats in language learning and maintains an internal ranking of language difficulty (specifically, how long it would take a native english speaker to reach proficiency). here, we examine 10 of the hardest languages to learn based on fsi rankings.. In a study conducted by the british foreign office, basque was ranked as the hardest language to learn. geographically surrounded by romance languages, it is one of the only language isolates of europe, with no syntactic parallels to english.. 182 thoughts on “what are the hardest languages to learn?” nicolas renaud. for instance, chinese speakers mix up the l and the r in english, french speakers mix up the r and the j in spanish, and english speakers mix up the c and the ch in gaelic. reply. stevie jones. august 7, 2016 at 2:50 pm..
