10 Languages That Are Difficult To Learn

In the internet age, it’s becoming much easier to get into contact with people from different countries. Learning a new language might be a fun aspect of that, because there’s honestly no downside in learning a second (or third or fourth) language.

And if you’re going to learn a new language, you might as well challenge yourself. Thankfully, science has determined what the most difficult to learn languages are if you’re an English speaker. Let’s take a look.

Finnish
Pretty sure this one is difficult for everyone, even Finnish speaking people. The grammar is insanely crazy and whoever invented this must really hate language in general.

Sanskrit
A language so hard they used it for psychological research. They actually had people learn Sanskrit during surgery to see if the brain being fully occupied with trying to make sense of this (thankfully) dead language still had room to send activity to pain neurons. And yes, it did dull the pain some, but the physical pain was replaced with the mental agony of learning Sanskrit.

Khoisan
Also known as “that language with the clicks in it”. The clicks alone require a certain finesse that’ll be sure to keep you busy for weeks.

Arabic
This one is particularly hard because it’s made up of sounds and an alphabet that doesn’t exist in the Queen’s language. It’d essentially be like learning to speak all over again.