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. Why is latin hard to learn and how the language has rocked my world. dean soto 1 comment. january 4, 2014. well, because even though it’s because even though latin is such a hard language to learn, through it i have learned more about my own language than i did through over 16+ years of schooling.. 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..
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.. In other words, if you already speak spanish, french, or italian, etc., then, yes, learning romanian will be much harder than learning another romance language because you will more quickly be able to recognize the other romance language and will need to learn more new things for romanian.. The clear winner from the 7 easiest languages to learn is spanish. everything from writing, grammar, and speaking will come more naturally to the english speaker. similar rules, structure, and latin roots..