What is the hardest language in the world to learn?
There is a saying among linguists that the hardest language to learn is the second one. This is somewhat true, because your first language you learned with little effort and the third and fourth come after one has already studied language consciously. Of course, circumstances vary widely. I got small amounts of French and German as a child and so they aren’t quite 2nd languages, but folded into my first. German was the first language i studied formally and, even with some background in it, it was the hardest for me. I assumed that it was naturally harder than Spanish until a Mexican-American who studied Spanish as his 2nd and German as his 3rd told me that German is much easier than Spanish. This seems to confirm the saying. Some languages are easier for certain people because they are related to what they know. Being familiar with German, Spanish and French, i have found that Russian isn’t totally foreign, while Chinese is. I hear that Chinese grammar is among the simplest in the worl
