> [...] Japanese - considered (one of) the most difficult languages in the world. Just in case, one of the most difficult languages to learn by native English

> [...] Japanese - considered (one of) the most difficult languages in the world. Just in case, one of the most difficult languages to learn by native English speakers. It is pretty easy for Koreans for example---they share the same sentence order (subject-object-verb) and many words frequently share the etymology due to throughout Chinese influence. More quantitively, Idibon had once catalogued [1] the weirdness of natural languages compared to others. English ranked 33rd place out of 239 languages. Quoting the original, "[p]art of this is to say that some of the languages you take for granted as being normal (like English, Spanish, or German) consistently do things differently than most of the other languages in the world". [1] https://corplinguistics.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/the-weirdest-languages/ https://corplinguistics.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/the-weirdes... (the original link is dead)