Explore what makes a language difficult to learn, from writing systems to grammar, with expert insights tailored to English speakers.

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 ...

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 ...

The Rail received another e-mail forward from the Gruff Guardian of Grammar (formerly known as the Language Nazi). Since The Rail was in a bind last week, trying to work ahead so it could take the ...

All children are born with the same kind of brain wiring, so at the outset, we are all equally adept at learning any possible human language. For a newborn, any language is, in principle, as easy or ...

More than 7100 languages are spoken in the world right now. Some are spoken widely and some are not. If we think about the hardest language in the world, the very first language that comes to our mind ...