Hardest Languages for English Speakers

Trying to learn a new language? If you're contemplating on doing business internationally it would be beneficial to do so. Currently, I'm fluent in English and Spanish, but would like to expand and learn other languages. I did a little research on which languages were easier for me to learn and found out it was French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian. While doing my research, I started wondering if those were the easiest languages than which languages would be the hardest to acquire? After reading a few blogs and information on the internet I picked five languages.



Arabic
Is the primary language of the Arab states of the Middle East and North Africa. There are more than 300 million native speakers. The Arabic language has borrowed words from Persian, Greek, Hebrew and Syriac. Arabic has an alphabet of 28 letters. Most of the letters have four different forms. When speaking this language many of the noises are articulated in the back of the throat. I believe this would be too difficult for a native English speaker to learn how to pronounce Arabic words.
  


Japanese

The Japanese language is spoken primarily in Japan and there are more than 130 million native speakers. There are many dialects spoken because Japan has had a history of external and internal isolation. Japanese also has an extensive grammatical system to express formality and politeness. Compared to English, Japanese words are arranged differently and there are no future tenses.

Hungarian
Is the official language of Hungary and there are more than 15 million native speakers. The first accounts of Hungarian has been dated back to the 10th century. The Turkic language has great influenced on the Hungarian language. The first print of the language was published in the early 1500s. The language to start off has 35 noun forms and many vowels. When speaking this language it takes deep-throat sounds in order to pronounce words which difficult to do for a non-native speaker.







Mandarin
Mandarin language is spoken mainly in the northern and southwestern part of China. There are more than 800 million native speakers. Most of the Mandarin dialects can be found in the northern part of China. The current Chinese language has been developed from old Chinese and middle Chinese dialects. This language is hard because every word is a different symbol and it's not phonetic.

Finnish

There are more than 5 million native speakers and the language is primarily spoken in Finland. The first comprehensive Finnish writing system appeared in the 16th century. The language was based on Swedish, German, and Latin writing. The language as the basic subject-verb-object order as English, but some flexibility is allowed. Also the spelling of Finnish words are closely related to how it is spoken, which is not the case with English.