What is the hardest language to learn?

This question has been asked millions of times throughout the Linguistic Community, and no one has been able to answer the question directly. As you know, there are many contributing factors that make learning a language as hard as it is. Some of these factors are; Different Writing Systems (Alphabets,) Different Grammatical Structures, and many more.

Although many cannot answer the key question, I believe I can. After a long time of studying linguistics, I have summarized that there really is no such thing as a "hard language." Of course trying to tackle Mandarin Chinese isn't the easiest thing to do, it can also be considered quite easy for other people. What really matters is what your native language is, for example- Let's say that your native language is English, then Dutch or German might be easier to learn than Korean or any Sino-Tibetan language.

The reason that an English speaker will find Dutch or German a lot easier to learn than others is because every language belongs to what are known as "Language Families." These "families" are constructed and bounded together with languages by their similarity in meaning, and comprehension. For example the Romance language family- this "Family" is well known for Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, and of course, Latin. Hence the name "Romance" languages...you didn't think that these languages were named "Romance" languages because of their romantic appeal, did you? But I digress.

Like the case of English speakers learning Dutch or German, this can relate with almost any language, let me give you another example: A native Japanese speaker will find that Korean will be easy to learn, this is also because of the fact that Japanese and Korean both originate from the Altaic Language family, so on and so forth.

However, do not let this minor setback discourage you, for it does not make it impossible, just a tiny bit more difficult. So be creative! Learn something out of your area, and have fun while doing it. Sayounara.