Are you looking to learn a language? Dared yourself to learn one of the hardest languages? Or just maybe you’ve added learning something new onto your bucket list. Well this week we take a look at which languages are the easiest to learn (phew! 😛 ) and which ones are a little more taxing for the native English speaker!
Having learnt both French and Spanish at school, I feel I should have kept it up as now I don’t feel nowhere near as confident… So without further ado, what are the hardest languages to learn?
Feeling inspired? Are you going to try learn a language this year? If so let us know what! Or maybe you already speak fluent in Spanish or even Korean – how long did it take you to learn?
Our bucket list includes us holding a conversation without using any English… I wonder what country / language we will choose! 😀
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In School, I was not interested in languages. Later in work I learned to speak Spanish in 4½ months. This means only to speak, but not to write it. French I learned by reading by dictionary. It was hard job, but I loved it. Nowadays after 39 years I cannot speak it fluently, but to read. I have in my home library 2500 French books which I have read thrice and since two years I started the fourth tour to read them.
I school I learned English, Swedish and German. Last autumn we went with my wife to Portuguese course. After three months I started to blog also in Portuguese, although I know that my writings are full of mistakes. So what! My motto is:” doing is learning”! Sometimes when preparing my posts, it takes one whole day to translate them into English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. I am dogged and enjoy transplantations.
Finnish is difficult, say what they say.
I was acutally googling about it to see which are the hardest languages to learn and I found your article, which was interesting, since I knew the website. I would agree that if you are an english speaker, it’s easier to learn latin or germanic languages, and harder to learn japanese or mandarin.
Personally, I know some words in most latin languages, english and some german. But It would be certainly weird to learn a language that doesn’t have at least a similar alphabet as the latin one.