The world's most difficult languages to learn

[jw5]

Hungarian​

Not only spoken in Hungary, this difficult language is also heard in Serbia, Romania, Slovakia, and the Ukraine.

 

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Persian​

Persian, also known as Farsi, scored a four on the difficulty ranking list.

 

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Basque​

Basque is extremely difficult to learn as it is a language isolate, meaning it isn't similar to any other language which makes it that much harder to learn.

 

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Croatian​

If you speak Croatian, then good on you! You know one of the world's most difficult languages.

Croatian and Slovenian is not difficult.
Whereas Serbian is a little more difficult, because it uses the Cyrillic script, although many words are similar to Croatian and Slovenian in meaning and pronunciation (such as dobrei, lepa, hvala, kako siti)
I completed grade one in Slovenian.

 

[Charlie99]

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Polish​

Learning Polish is no walk in the park.

Polish is not difficult, except for cz (pronounced as ch), sz (sh), and l with a line through is w (were), the English w is pronounced almost as a V
Masculine and feminine declanations.
A male with a family name Kowalski, but his wife will be Kowalska.

 

[Charlie99]

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Hebrew​

Hebrew, which is largely spoken in Israel, is quite difficult to learn.

Yes, difficult

 

[jw5]

Croatian and Slovenian is not difficult.
I completed grade one in Slovenian.

Absolutely agree and I am with you on this.

 

[Charlie99]

Absolutely agree and I am with you on this.

Please refer to edited post re Croatian and Slovenian

 

[jw5]

Please refer to edited post re Croatian and Slovenian

Ok I will.

 

[TheGreatWhite]

What abt HINDI?

 

[jw5]

Please refer to edited post re Croatian and Slovenian

I have referred to the edited post and found it to be spot on.

 

[jw5]

Yes, difficult

Absolutely agree and I am with you on this.

 

[jw5]

What abt HINDI?

Should be quite difficult.

 

[jw5]

Polish is not difficult, except for cz (pronounced as ch), sz (sh), and l with a line through is w (were), the English w is pronounced almost as a V
Masculine and feminine declanations.
A male with a family name Kowalski, but his wife will be Kowalska.

Noted with thanks.

 

[jw5]

Korean​

Korean is also a language isolate. It's hard to learn because of its completely different alphabet and grammatical structure.

 

[Charlie99]

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Korean​

Korean is also a language isolate. It's hard to learn because of its completely different alphabet and grammatical structure.

I have heard spoken Korean and seen its very unusual alphabet, and although I have not tried to learn the basics, I imagine that Korean may be difficult.
But due to English being the default business language and internet language, I believe that notwithstanding the billion who speak French, Hindu, Mandarin, Russian and Spanish, English is almost an universal international language.
However, I would love to be fluent in French and Mandarin.

 

[jw5]

I have heard spoken Korean and seen its very unusual alphabet, and although I have not tried to learn the basics, I imagine that Korean may be difficult.
But due to English being the default business language and internet language, I believe that notwithstanding the billion who speak French, Hindu, Mandarin, Russian and Spanish, English is almost an universal international language.
However, I would love to be fluent in French and Mandarin.

Korean is quite difficult.

 

[jw5]

Norwegian​

Finally! A language that gets a score of one on the difficulty ranking list. While still a hard language, Norwegian actually has some similarities to English.

 

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Danish​

Mutually intelligible to Norwegian is Danish, the official language of Denmark.

 

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Indonesian​

Indonesian gets a score of three on the difficulty ranking list. The language is spoken in the Southeast Asian country of Indonesia.