[Edling] Tongue twisters? A look into the most gruelling languages to learn and master

[Francis M. Hult via Edling]

Study International

Tongue twisters? A look into the most gruelling languages to learn and
master

For English speakers, things get tough when the language has the following
features:


   - They have different alphabets
   - They lack cognates (words from other languages that have similar
   spellings, pronunciations, and meanings)
   - They have grammatical concepts unfamiliar to English speakers
   - They have different writing systems


All of this explains what makes a language challenging to learn, so why in
the world should we invest time and effort to do so?

Full story:
https://www.studyinternational.com/news/hardest-languages-to-learn/
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