February 20, 2010
Hardest Language To Learn That Uses Latin Script?
For an english speaker
fyi latin script is the letter we use
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Vietnamese or Basque.
(Although the grammar of Hungarian or Finnish is magnificently complex, both of those languages have enough words in common with English to make the vocabulary marginally easier.)
Well, all languages present their own difficulties and different people will find different languages harder than others. But I have heard Finnish is really difficult to learn. Also, Hungarian. (Neither of these languages is Indo-European, so they would be difficult for those of us speaking languages typical to Europe.)
There’s many: Finnish, Scandinavian languages, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Ghanaian/Twi, Turkish, Mongolian [uses Latin, Cyrillic & Mongolian alphabets at different times in its long history], Welsh, Irish, Scottish, &cetera …
Wikibook says
Albanian
Azerbaijani
Croatian
Finnish
Hungarian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Polish
Slovenian
Tagalog
Turkish
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Zulu
Definitely Basque! It’s completely unlike any other language – it barely even belongs to a language group.
Vietnamese, probably.