When we want to learn a new language, first we check that how difficult the language is to learn. Language is important tool if you want to communicate with others. Whether vocal or written good command over a language makes your life really easy specially when you are not at your native place. If you want to learn languages then earlier the better. It is easier when you are young and it gets difficult when you are getting older. It is said that children of age around 3-4 years can learn three languages at a time. Unless you know which language would be required you actually don’t know which language to learn. Regardless of difficult level, eventually we end up learning our native languages.
Lets find out which are top most difficult languages in the world
10. Croatian: It one of the recognized official languages of the European union. It is used by Croats, principally in Croatia. It hardest for people who are having English speaking background.
9. Scottish Gaelic: This languages comes from Scotland and is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. Its origin lies in the middle Irish language. Scottish Gaelic should not be confused with Scots.
8. Polish: Although Polish is not considered as difficult as other languages in this category. It has complicated gender recognition system which makes is difficult to comprehend. There are over 55 million Polish language speakers around the world and it is one of the official languages of the European Union. After Russian, it is the most widely spoken Slavic language.
7. Albanian: This language is spoken by the native people of Albania, Kosovo, Greece, Italy, Macedonia and Montenegro. The two main dialects of Albanian are Gheg and Tosk.
6. Icelandic: It is also rated as one of the most difficult languages to learn specially for English speakers. While 97% of the population of Iceland consider Icelandic their mother tongue. If you wanting to travel to beautiful place called Iceland be prepared for some learning curve.
5. Finnish: Finnish is spoken by about five million people, most of whom reside in Finland. Finnish is one of two official languages of Finland. Finnish is a very logical language but different from other European language, which makes it bit difficult to learn. But due to its organized structure, it easy for those who are methodical.
4. Korean: It is a unique language with no dependencies on other language. Historical and modern linguists classify Korean as a language isolate. Korean is the official language of South Korea and North Korea.
3. Japanese: is an East Asian language spoken by about 126 million people, primarily in Japan. Japanese is difficult to learn because it involves thousands of characters to write which are hard to remember. Well practice is the key to master this language.
2. Arabic: The difficulty level of this language can be imagined that letters can be written in 4 different forms depending on where you belong. The understanding of Arabic would be different for person of Iraq from a person from Egypt. Although is common language for the Arab Word. There are no or low vowels, which makes it more difficult to comprehend.
1. Chinese: This is spoken by one-fifth of the total world population , may be because China being the most populated country in the world. All varieties of Chinese are tonal and analytic. All varieties of spoken Chinese use tones to distinguish words. Specially Cantonese and Mandarin from Chinese Languages or dialects are considered to be most difficult of all.
There other languages which are difficult to learn like Vietnamese, Thai, Hungarian. So Let us know what are your thoughts on this.
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