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Originally Posted by tksensei
There is no 'hardest' language to learn in and of itself.
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This is the correct answer. The difficulty in learning a language stems from the similarities between your native language and the target language. English and Japanese have very little similarity, so it's difficult for Americans to learn Japanese. However, Koreans learn Japanese much more easily, since the languages are more similar. Not super-similar, but more similar than English-Japanese.
Furthermore, no language is "hardest" simply because no one would want to speak that language, so they would make it easier to speak subconsciously. All languages are equally difficult to speak: Kids of the same age in every location begin speaking language at the same age, regardless of whether they live in Tokyo, Moscow, or Boston.