Arabic is the hardest language ever to learn and pronounce
it has letters with unique pronouncation
Arabic Grammer is IMPOSSIBLE to lear for a foreigner
they are complicated to death
the one word in arabic may have tens of meaning
It is hard to the extent that 99 % of arabic peoples don’t speak the real ” Arabic ” with its real grammers
not they are interested , but they really can’t !!!!

I’m a native English speaker (and an editor by profession). I’d say that while English may be easy to learn and people are always exposed to it everywhere, mastering it is another story. Most of my editing is of non-native speaker’s work, but many natives are pretty awful, too. The sheer number of expressions, slang, things that can’t be exchanged even though they seem like they could be…and speakers of languages without articles will never master them. Never. On the other hand, English speakers are terribly forgiving, perhaps because there are so many non-native speakers. Ask me to correct your writing, and I’ll tear it apart, but don’t be shy about trying to speak and write it.

What I love is seeing “loans” from the native language in English, in grammar. It’s cute.

Je parle un petit peu de francais (no accents on this thing). I can’t fairly judge its difficulty because I started young. I’ve never mastered it and forget it, obviously, with no use, but it all comes back if I do a refresher.

I just started learning Greek (today!) and can’t assess that yet. It has genders, but I’m at least used to that from French. So of course, what you already know influences the difficulty. I’ve never learned Spanish, even though half the people in this city speak it, but I could pretty much make out what that sentence above said. I guess it’s the Latin base and maybe the unconscious exposure.

I’d think Japanese would be very hard, at least to do very well, with all the honorifics and different ways to say things depending on the age and sex of those involved. And of course, writing Chinese or Japanese is a mess. My Greek learning is bringing in the Greek alphabet, and while I’m picking it up, as it were, I imagine understanding the use of accents or no accents will be tricky. And it seems like some of the same sounds come from different letters. Many of us know some of the letters already, at least from fraternities , but I can see where being able to whip out.a written sentence would be tough. And that sure as hell isn’t a language I could type on this iPad.

1. Ket
2. Navajo
3. Tlingit
4. Basque
5. Arabic
6. Hungarian
7. Finnish
8. Lithuanian
9. Polish
10. Czech / Slovak

I read through the comments roughly.
A few things:
It’s not too nice calling a language easy or even ridiculously easy, if you don’t speak it well. (I read some who calimed they spent a few weeks in a country and they almost speak) Any language need years to learn properly! (maybe esperanto is an exception but that’s an artificial one)

THe difficulty of a language is nothing to do with the size of population which speaks s (Basque is not claimed to be the hardest because of its separation I’m sure though I can’t speak any.)

Hungarian and Finnish have almost nothing in common. They are on the same family tree (finno -ugric) but Hungarian is on the ugric branch and these two branches are extremely distant…

We cannot be objective as we see a language from our native language. (That’s why I’m interested in how have they found this list. Which language parts have been compared to others etc.)

Everyone can be really proud to their own language. Languages are beautiful doesn’t matter how they sound in a forigner’s ears or how hard they are to others.

So if anyone could help me in finding this study wiht more details about its methods I would be greatful.

Thanks and have a nice day!

Let’s see – simplicity of English:
The monkey is here. I see the monkey. I gave it to the monkey. It is the monkey’s toy. I am walking with the monkey. The mouse is in the monkey.
So, monkey remains the same except for the possessive case.

Now, in Polish:
Małpa jest tutaj. Widzę małpy. I oddał go do małpy. To jest małpa zabawki. Idę z małpą. Mysz jest u małp.
In this case, I have to remember 4 different endings depending on what I am saying. And, if the noun is neuter or masculine, I have another two sets of endings to remember.

Same difficulty with verbs:
In English:
I am making a hat. You are making a hat. He makes a hat. We are making a hat. You are making a hat. They are making a hat.
No matter who the subject is, it’s the same “making” except for the third person singular “makes”.

Now Polish:
Robię kapelusz. Robisz kapelusz. Robi ​​kapelusz. Robimy kapelusz. Robicie kapelusz. Robią kapelusz.
Every single expression gets its own version of the verb “making”. So I have to remember 6 versions of the verb and that’s just for the present tense.