On a scale of 1-10, how hard is it to learn greek? update cancel. ad by grammarly. most modern greeks would argue otherwise, and would say that hellenic is the hardest language for foreigners to learn. however, they are not speaking with facts, but with an opinion, and will usually say this because most of them also operate on the automatic. Russian, hindi, thai, polish and greek, on the other hand, take around 44 weeks to learn, while the hardest languages, which include japanese, korean, chinese and arabic, can take more than a year. Greek is the hardest. it is that simple. thai sounds difficult from this thread. so do finnish, hungarian, japanese and chinese. i've studied german, french, english, mandarin, danish, japanese and spanish..
The greek language is probably the oldest in europe and has been spoken for some 4,000 years, and must be one of the most difficult to learn! the difficulty arises not just with learning an entirely different alphabet, but also with knowing where to place the stress on each and every word.. Learning a new language is never an easy thing to do, but there are ways to make it easier. japanese, finnish or chinese? the 10 hardest languages for english speakers to learn. march 6, 2015 2015-03-06. icelandic is far from the most difficult language on this list. it is however extremely complicated, and while not a language isolate. 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..