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8 Hard languages for English Speakers

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8 Hard languages for English Speakers

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  1. 8Hard Languages for English Speakers

  2. 1. Mandarin Chinese Interestingly, the hardest language to learn is also the most widely spoken native language in the world.

  3. 2. Arabic The second hardest language for English speakers to pick up is also in the top five most spoken world languages

  4. Basque In a study conducted by the British Foreign Office, Basque was ranked as the hardest language to learn. Geographically surrounded by Romance languages

  5. Cantonese Cantonese is a tonal language, which can be hugely challenging for English speakers who are used to speaking with emphasis and inflection, rising tones to pose a question.

  6. Finnish Finnish is in the Finno-Ugric language family, with Estonian and Hungarian. Without Germanic or Latin influence, Finnish vocabulary is completely alien to English speakers. 

  7. Hungarian Though it uses the Roman alphabet for writing, don’t think that reading Hungarian will be a snap. Unique vowel sounds and consonant clusters make it difficult for English tongues to read and pronounce Hungarian.

  8. Japanese The tough part? Written Japanese can be a headache to learn. It uses four alphabets including the Chinese-influenced kanji (pictoral), two phonetic writing systems, and the Roman alphabet (Romanji).

  9. Turkish Turkish is an agglutinative language, which basically means prefixes and suffixes are attached to words to determine their meaning and indicate direction, rather than using separate prepositions.

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