Some may remember taking foreign language classes during school or in preparation for a new job or some travel. There are over 7,100 spoken languages in the world, according to Ethnologue. While it’s ...

Despite the fact that Turkish has a phonetic nature that simplifies pronunciation, it is one of the most difficult languages to learn due to its complex grammar, suffixes, and order of words. The ...

There are over 7,000 languages in the world. Quite a few people in the world speak 2-4 languages fluently, usually because they were raised in a multilingual environment. In today’s interconnected, ...

THE DIFFICULTY in learning a foreign language lies not only in its inherent complexity. Languages are complex in different ways (though all are learnable by infants). The main reason a language is ...

I am often asked why English is such a difficult to learn for non-native speakers. In fact, how hard it is to learn depends on what your native language is; and this follows as languages are more (or ...

Ten years ago Mandarin, the mother tongue of most Chinese, was being hyped as the language of the future. In 2015 the administration of Barack Obama called for 1m primary- and secondary-school ...

Arabic is the most difficult language to learn in the world. It is widely spoken in the Middle East and North Africa region, and is native to an estimated 110 million people. Like Persian, its script ...