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I don't understand what you mean, Latin and Mandarin are both very difficult to learn as a second language (don't know about Swahili). English is comparatively

• thaumasiotes 6y ago
  Latin is a shorthand. "Latin" does not exhibit the trend towards simplicity that the others do. But its descendants, the Romance languages, do. An easy example is that classical Latin and Greek have roughly equivalent noun declension systems. A noun has 5 cases in Greek and 6 in Latin. Here in the modern day, Greek still has noun cases, but Latin doesn't. Why? > Latin and Mandarin are both very difficult to learn as a second language It is common (for example, it is the official opinion of the US government) to say that Mandarin is an extremely difficult language to learn. However, this claim almost always refers to the writing system, which is not part of the language at all. Learning to read and write Mandarin in the traditional style is difficult. Learning to speak Mandarin is, by this hypothesis, easy.