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I think some african languages because there’s no traces in english which makes it more difficult.
I would have to say eastern languages, like Chinese, Japanese, Korean and the Arabic languages.
I think chinese language is hardest one for english speakers. Like…everything is different…
I’d say Asian languages would definitley be difficult ones.
Any of the Asian languages.English is a germanic based language so learning german wouldn’t be as hard as chinese or japanese or hindi or arabic. Spanish is pretty easy for an english speaker to master, and after spanish is mastered than italian and portuguese become a cinch along with french.
So yes my vote goes to chinese, japanese, vietnamese, tagalog, arabic, hindi and many others.
anything outside europe pretty much, espeically stuff with different alphabets
Depends on how well the person in question can imitate the phonetics of another language. For me, Spanish is easy as pie, but French I have a tougher time with.
Also, there are the written languages to take into account. If you learn a language first with the roman alphabet, you have to take the time to translate the language into roman and then into english. That explanation is wonky.
For example, I can pronounce Japanese correctly, but since I learned it in romaji first, I have to take a ton of time translating the kana (Japanese alphabets) into romaji (roman alphabet) then the romaji into English words.
I’ve had trouble with (pronouncing) Norwegian as well, but I believe my difficulties are from trying to teach myself through books rather than being taught by a tutor.
So what it comes down to is how you are being taught.
And I agree with Mhiz about some of the african languages, though I still want to try.
I will say that Chinese is not the hardest for English speakers because both languages are SVO order. (subject – verb – object)
There is no way to tell what the hardest is because every person has different language interests, so whichever languages you have no interest in will be the hardest. Taking that into consideration, my guess overall for English speakers would be an American Indian or African language.
i would say any language of the Far East due to the tones and the script, any from the Indian subcontinent due to the script and the pronunciation, the native american languages due to the structure, the inflection and the tones and the Turkic (i.e Turkish, Uzbek etc.) and Altaic ( Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian) families due to the structure.
According to the Defense Language Institute, the four hardest languages for a native English speaker to learn are Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic (Category IV languages). Of these, the hardest is Korean. In one article I understand the DLI considered making a special Category V level just for Korean.