Top 5 Hardest Languages To Learn in the World

We had already suggested you a list of top 5 easiest languages to learn. But if you are an avid follower of complex languages, here is my personal list of difficult to control languages. This list is of course subjective because it depends on the linguistic experience of each. If however you are studying or even master one of these languages, I'll be well curious to know your secrets...

Top 5 Hardest Languages To Learn in the World Update 2014




Arabic:

Writing is one of the most difficult aspects of this language. The graphics system consists of 28 letters. Most of the letters changes shape according to their position in the word. This language is written from right to the left which can be tricky if one is not accustomed. The pronunciation is also very complicated. Finally, to make things more difficult, there are several Arabic dialects, Tunisian Arabic and Egyptian Arabic are totally different!


Chinese languages:

The pronunciation of the syllables of a Word is subject to a tone, a modification of it will therefore a different meaning of the word, the mandarin uses 4 tones whereas Cantonese uses 8! The written language is very complex because each word is defined by a symbol, so we cannot guess the pronunciation of a Word through it. It is therefore important to know and remember the name of each character.

Finnish:

This language appears to be the most complicated in the world. There are 15 different cases in grammar. If in french, the word "pen" is used in a sentence, it will not change whatever the sentence, while in Finnish, the Word will be different if: are written with a pen, we throw a pen, or you put the pen on a table. But do not be discouraged! The pronunciation is not so complex that much, since there is a defined sound for each letter.

Hungarian:

Although the Hungarian language uses the latin alphabet, the complexity of language lies in the conjugation. Verbs have two kinds of verb conjugations, a determined object to undefined object. In addition, it is not easy to speak the Hungarian language because these unique vowels (a, e, o, o, ő, ű, ű, ű, i) and these groups of consonants (ty, gy, ny, sz, zs, dz, dzs, ly and cs).

Basque:

Although basque is surrounded by Indo-European languages, it is considered to be the single isolate of the continent. It is an agglutinative language, meaning that the words are formed by assembling basic elements (prefixes, infixes, suffixes). The words are then often amended to create new ones.