7 Most Difficult Languages to Learn in the World

Mandarin Chinese   Mandarin is the most widely spoken Chinese language with more than 1 billion native speakers. If you want to learn Chinese, be ready to sacrifice to spend upward of 2,000 hours from whatever time you might have. Chinese is a tonal language, making it even more challenging for people to learn and convey the different meanings of words according to their tone and pitch.

Korean  With the rise of K-pop, K-drama, and K-movies, the Korean language demand has been rising as one of the most popular tongues. Korean is spoken by roughly 75 million people, mainly in South and North Korea. Unlike Japanese and Chinese characters, the Korean alphabets (Hangul) are ridiculously straightforward. You can start sounding out words and sentences pretty quickly. Despite easy characters to read, Korean is one of the most difficult languages to study.

Japanese   A Japonic family member and a language isolated, the Japanese enjoy popularity among 125 million speakers. If you’re not sure why to learn Japanese, you can read career options in Japanese. The Japanese grammar is uncomplicated since Nouns have no gender, no articles, and no plural forms: only two verb tenses, present, and past. With only five vowel sounds and uniform phonetic orthography, it is moderately simple to pronounce. Like Chinese, Japanese requires that you master thousands of different elaborate characters.

Russian  Boasting a whopping 300 million speakers, Russian is one of the more popular languages globally. While Russian is not that hard for some speakers in Eastern Europe, it appears challenging for English speakers. It’s beautiful and valuable when you travel to that side of the world. The alphabet looks complicated, and the pronunciation seems impossible in sounding. It doesn’t use the Latin alphabet, but the Russian alphabet in its Cyrillic script form.

Arabic  Arabic is spoken by over 400 million speakers spread across more than 20 countries, mostly in the Middle East and North Africa. Arabic is a widespread but equally tricky language. While the letters are fewer than in Chinese and Japanese, they also look intimidating. Plus, there are only three sounds in Arabic, not present in English. The Arabic cursive script includes 28 letters with three vowels supplementing them. There are 13 verb forms, and the pronunciation is difficult to master.

Turkish  Turkish is one of the most popular Turkic languages. Over 80 million people speak Turkish, and most of the speakers live in Turkey. It is an agglutinative language, which means prefixes and suffixes are attached to words to determine their meaning and indicate the flow of the sentence. While Turkish uses similar Latin alphabets like French or German; however, it is totally different in grammar, syntax, and vocabulary.

Persian (Farsi, Dari, Tajik)  Persian is an Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European languages. It is called ‘Farsi’ in Iran, ‘Tajik’ in Tajikistan, and ‘Dari’ in Afghanistan. The Persian language is a very straightforward type of grammar functionality. The verbs are ridiculously uncomplicated. The language morphology for the classical and contemporary forms has not changed significantly. Moreover, there aren’t lots of exceptions. People and objects are referred to in the same way.

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