Learning a new language is really cool! Knowing new words and new meanings can be an exhilarating challenge. Some languages are easier, while others require more commitment and dedication. But when it comes to the toughest languages in the world, the mission can be next to impossible! O kids school will show you the five most difficult languages to learn!
Before we know which languages are hardest to learn, let's understand why some of them look like real codes, a kind of cipher message that few can get to understand. It is worth remembering that saying that one language is more difficult than the other can be a subjective concept, as what is difficult for speakers of Portuguese language it might be easy for a Hebrew speaker, for example.
You can start by learning an expression in different languages: I love you. This will give you a preview of the difficulty level of each of them.
This is because the further away from our linguistic reality, the greater the challenge during learning. There is such a thing as a “Language Family Tree”: The closer the genealogy, the easier it is to learn. For example, for Brazilians, learning Spanish, which has the same etymological origin as the Portuguese language (both derived from the Greco-Roman tradition), may be much more viable than learn Greek, for example, whose origin is Hellenic - and this means that, in addition to the pronunciation being very different, this language also has a distinct alphabet, which is called the alphabet Greek.
While some languages are so difficult and so unique, one factor that can make learning easier is motivation. If you urgently need to learn Mandarin, even if the pronunciation and alphabet are very far from the family tree of the Portuguese language, you will certainly find strategies to achieve your objective. It is certain that you will need a lot of patience and dedication, as learning Mandarin, spoken by more than a billion native speakers (mainly in China) won't happen overnight, won't it same?
Now discover the five most difficult languages in the world to learn:
1st place →!Xóõ: You must be asking yourself: “does this really exist?”. Yes, there is a language called !Xóõ and it is spoken by less than five thousand people in Botswana and Namibia. This, in addition to the fact that it is a tonal language (it is subdivided into four tones: low, descending medium, medium and high), can cause the learner many headaches!
2nd place → Arabic: it is better known and spoken in the countries of the East, but this is not an easy language to learn, even because its alphabet does not include vowels and there are up to four different versions for many of its letters.
3rd place →Vietnamese: it's a language whose words can have another meaning depending on their pronunciation, and that's exactly why understanding and speaking the language can be an almost impossible mission.
4th place →Mandarin: it is the most widely spoken language in the world, and its words, like Vietnamese, can have different meanings depending on their pronunciation. In addition, it has a complex writing system that makes learning even more difficult.
5th place →Japanese: Did you know that Japanese has three different alphabets and each of them can have more than ten thousand symbols to learn? With a syllabic alphabet, which at first impression can be a facilitating condition for learning, Japanese will also require a lot of dedication and patience from the learner!
