This language is spoken by about a fifth of the total world population and is considered among the most difficult languages to learn. the standard chinese language is spoken in the people’s republic of china (prc), the republic of china (taiwan), and singapore.. French is the easiest language to learn (image: getty). julie brake, senior lecturer in welsh at wrexham glyndwr university, said: “i don’t think you can categorise a language as being either. The chart is just showing what the hardest language to learn for most native english speakers is. obviously there will be exceptions. the chart basically is talking about people whos mother tongue is english and did not learn any other language at a young age..
I'd say the hardest language to learn would probably be icelandic, welsh, or mandarin. icelandic and welsh because the languages are very difficult in general, like english, with many confusing rules to foreigners, and also unless you move to one of those places, it's extremely hard to find a source to teach you.. Barry farber, the author of “how to learn any language” and a polyglot many times over, says that finnish is one of the hardest languages for him to learn. finnish is in the finno-ugric language family, with estonian and hungarian.. Add that to the fact that chinese is a language rich in homophones and full of idioms and aphorisms picked up over the course of its long history, and mandarin becomes arguably the most difficult language in the world for an english speaker to learn..
