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No matter what language you are looking to learn, it’s important to remember that every learner is unique. There are several factors that you have to consider when you set out to learn a foreign language. These include:
How many hours a week you can devote to learning
How much motivation you have
What sort of educational resources you have at your disposal
How complex the target language is
How close the language is to a language you already speak
Even an easy language takes time to learn. In general, languages that are close to English take approximately 23 or 24 weeks, or 575-600 class hours, to achieve total proficiency. But the most difficult languages require, on average, over a year and a half, or approximately 88 weeks or 2,200 class hours, to reach fluency in speaking and reading the target language.
The hardest languages for English speakers to learn are as follows: Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Languages like Hindi, Thai, Russian, and Finnish are considered to be “middling” languages. Languages like those require about 44 weeks or just over 1,100 class hours to reach proficiency. But that pales in comparison to the four hardest languages.
Arabic — with over 221 million native speakers — is difficult for English speakers because it has very few words that bear any resemblance to words from European languages.
Languages like Chinese and Japanese require the memorization of thousands of foreign characters. This can prove extremely challenging for languages learners in order to capture the nuance of the languages. And Korean has an entirely different sentence structure and syntax.
The world’s hardest languages have, combined, over 3 billion speakers the world over. But don’t let those numbers fool you — it takes a lot of time, patience, and dedication to learn them. But with the right support and educational materials, even the hardest languages are well within the reach of the dedicated student.
