Learning a new language is a always a big challenge. The most difficult part in the learning of a new language is vocabulary and grammar.

学习一门新语言总是一个很大的挑战。在一个新的语言学习中最困难的部分是词汇和语法。

Are you ready to challenge yourself?

你准备好挑战自己了吗？

Good, then go ahead and check our list. Give the following languages a try.

好，继续前进，看一下我们的名单。试一下下面的语言吧。

What is the most difficult language to learn?

什么是最难学的语言？

These are top ten hardest languages to learn for the English Native Speakers.

以英语为母语的人来说这些就是十大最难学的语言。

1. Mandarin (Chinese)

普通话（中文）

Chinese is considered as the World’s Most Difficult Language.

中文被认为是世界上最难的语言。

Mandarin has not only an enormously complex alphabet with over 10,000 characters and each word having its own symbol, but it is not even phonetically. This means someone cannot infer the spoken language from its written form and vice versa.

汉语不仅具有超过10,000个字符，每个字都有其自身的符号，而且有些不遵照发音。这意味着一个人不能从它的书写形式，亦然推断他的发音。

The accent is also Problematic. -4 different pitches decide on the meaning of a word. For example “shi” has, depending on the tone and context, 32 different meanings. Furthermore many poeple find it difficult to cope up with the pronunciation.

口音也是个问题。 4个不同声调决定的单词的意思。例如，“shi”，取决于音调和语境，有32不同的含义。很多人觉得发音难以应付。

“Hello, how are you” in Chinese: “Nǐ haǒ, nǐ haǒ ma” (你好!你好吗)

“你好，你怎么样”，在中国：“Nǐhaǒ，Nǐhaǒma”（你好你好吗！）

2. Arabic

阿拉伯语

The biggest hurdle in learning Arabic is the scripture. Letters have 4 different shapes, depending on where in the word they are and vowels are left out in writing Arabic. The words are difficult to pronounce, there are 13 verb and 3 different noun forms (instead of 2 in European languages). Another problem are different dialects some of them differ from each other like French and Spanish or English and German.

在学习阿拉伯语的最大障碍就是圣经。字有4个不同的形状，发音取决于不同的地方。元音在阿拉伯语书写忽略，词很难发音，有13个动词和3种不同的名词形式（而不是在欧洲语言）。另一个问题是不同的方言他们中的一些各不相同，就像法语和西班牙语或英语和德语也不一样。

“Hello, how are you” in Arabic: “Marhabaan kayf halik”

“你好，你怎么样”，阿拉伯语：“Marhabaan kayfhalik”

3. Japanese

日语

One of the reasons for Japanese on third place in the “most difficult languages to learn list” is that spoken and written Japanese are completely different. Japanese writing is not phonetic, which means someone cannot learn Japanese by reading texts and vice versa. The 3000 signs have to be learned by heart. Even simple phrases like “How are you. Thank you, I’m well” are difficult to use, because they vary on the person someone is talking to.

对于日语在“最难的语言学习名单”中排第三的原因之一是日语口语和书面语完全不同。日本人写的不是音标，这意味着别人不能读课文，反之亦然。 3000个标志必须要用心记住。即使是简单的短语，如“你怎么样。谢谢你，我很好“也很难使用，因为他们对不同的人谈话有所不同。

“Hello, how are you” in Japanese: “Kon’nichiwa, genkidesuka” (こんにちは、元気ですか)

“你好，你怎么样”，日语：“Kon'nichiwa，genkidesuka”（こんにちは，元気ですか）

4. Hungarian

匈牙利语

With incredible 35 cases is Hungarian on place 4 in the list. A lot of words are formed in a very “special” way (for example orange means “not yellow”). Hungarian has a big number of vowels and the guttural pronunciation makes it very difficult for people to learn.

令人难以置信，匈牙利在35个的列表中排在第四。他的很多词语用很特殊的方式来表达（例如橙色表示为“不黄”）。匈牙利的元音很多，而且用喉咙发音使得人们很难学习匈牙利语。

“Hello, how are you” in Hungarian: “Helló, hogy vagy”

“你好，你怎么样”，匈牙利：“Helló，hogy vagy”

5. Korean

韩语

Korean is a very complex language. It is difficult to learn because of the sentence structure, different verb conjugations, complex grammar and syntactic structure. Furthermore most of the Korean vocabulary originates from Chinese scripture, called“Hanja” in Korean. As each character has another meaning, is it only possible to learn them by heart. 70-80 % of all Korean newspapers use Hanja.

韩语是一个非常复杂的语言。因为句子结构，不同的动词的变化，复杂的语法和句法结构，所以韩语很难学习。而且大部分的韩国词汇来源于中国经文，叫“汉字”韩语。由于每个角色都有另一层含义，只能通过用心背学会他们。所有韩国70，80％报纸使用汉字。

“Hello, how are you” in Korean: “Annyeonghaseyo bangbeob ibnida” (안녕하세요 방법 입 니다)

“喂，你好吗”韩国：“Annyeonghaseyo bangbeob ibnida”（안녕하세요방법입니다）

6. Finnish

芬兰语

At least 16 cases and a very complicated grammar makes Finnish to the number 6. Every location requires for example another case.

至少有16个事例表明芬兰语有非常复杂的语法，芬兰排在第六位。芬兰的每一个单词都需要看是不是有其他的情况。

“Hello, how are you” in Finnish: “Hei, kuinka voit”

“你好，你怎么样”，芬兰语：“Hei, kuinka voit”

7. Basque

巴斯克语

24 cases and the heavy use of prefixes, suffixes and infixes make it very difficult to find any logic in Basque. Basque is most probably the oldest language in Europe and has no connection to any other language family (like for example German, Dutch, English).

有24例，巴斯克语要大量使用前缀，后缀和中缀，人们很难找到巴斯克语的逻辑。巴斯克很有可能是欧洲最古老的语言，和任何其他语系都没有什么联系（例如像德语，荷兰语，英语）。

“Hello, how are you” in Basque: “Kaixo zer moduz zaude”

“你好，你怎么样”，巴斯克语：“Kaixo zer moduz zaude”

8. Navajo

纳瓦霍语

The difficult handling with prefix-suffix coupled with a complicated construction of tenses make Navajo to one of the most difficult languages to learn in the world.

前缀后缀的复杂时态结构很难处理使纳瓦霍成为世界上最困难的语言之一。

“Hello, how are you” in Navajo: “Yá’át’ééh, Ąąʼ haʼíí baa naniná”

“你好，你怎么样”，纳瓦霍语：“Yá’át’ééh, Ąąʼ haʼíí baa naniná”

9. Icelandic

冰岛语

Icelandic has a highly complex, archaic grammar and is the oldest (still spoken) Indo-Germanic language. Furthermore the words in Icelandic are very difficult to pronounce and include mutations, that don’t exist in any other language. Therefore, people can only learn Icelandic by listening to native speakers. The scripture is also uncommon. ‘H’ is pronounced like ‘H’ and ‘V’ like ‘V’. The combination HV is pronounced like “K”. FN is LB and LL becomes a spoken TL.

冰岛拥有一个非常复杂的，过时的语法，是最古老的（还是口语）印度日耳曼语言。此外，在冰岛是很难发音，即不以任何其他语言的存在。因此，人们只能通过听母语学习冰岛语。经文也屡见不鲜。 '轰'的发音类似“H”和'v'类似'V'。组合HV发音类似“K”。 FN是LB和LL成为口语TL。

“Hello, how are you” in Icelandic: “halló hvernig ert tú”

“你好，你怎么样”，冰岛语：“halló hvernig ert tú”

10. Polish

波兰语

7 cases and more exceptions than rules make it so difficult to learn fluent Polish. Someone, who is still eager to talk in this language has to more or less learn every sentence by heart.

7例表明，波兰语有很多例外的规则，很难说一口流利的波兰语。一个人如果想要学好波兰语，必须用心记好学到的每一句话。

“Hello, how are you” in Polish: “cześć, jak się masz”

“喂，你好吗”波兰语：“cześć，JAK SIE MASZ”