What are the top 10 hardest languages to learn?
It really depends on what your first language(native language) is. For Spanish speakers, Italians and Portugese are easy to learn but For Korean speakers, Japanese is much easier than the other European languages. For Dutch speakers, German is easier to learn than Spanish even though both of them are European languages. For Ukranian speakers, Russian is easier to learn than English. and etc etc… The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) of the US Department of State has compiled approximate learning expectations for a number of languages. Of the 70 languages analyzed, the 5 most difficult languages to reach proficiency in speaking and proficiency in reading (for native English speakers who already know other languages), requiring 88 weeks, are: “Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean”, with Japanese being the most difficult.
