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.. What is the most difficult language to learn — and why? jun 3, 2011 by asya pereltsvaig as mentioned in the previous posting , there are numerous rankings of “difficult” (and “easy”) languages to learn (note that we are talking about second-language learning here, not acquiring one’s native tongue).. In order to make japanese the easiest language to learn, however, we have to change what it means to learn a language. this is why i say japanese is both the hardest language and easiest language.
From this graph, i would like to learn 3 easy languages – rumanian, dutch and afrikaans; among the second category 6 languages – greek, hindi, turkish, polish, hebrew and finnish; and all of the hardest languages giving here, but mostly chinese and arabic.. What are the most difficult languages to learn? on the other hand, these organizations report that the languages that are the most difficult to learn are mandarin, cantonese, japanese, and korean.. 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..
