Comment by amilios

It's interesting, because through my readings in linguistics, I got the sense that no language is "objectively" harder than any other, that everything is relative to the other languages you know. A Dutch speaker will learn German potentially more easily than French compared to an English speaker, so how do you judge objectively which language is harder? Nevertheless, an entertaining read! I have heard a good candidate for the hardest natural language is Georgian, due to irregular grammar, long consonant clusters, and difficult script. Not sure how to reconcile the apparent objectively difficult features with the previous claim. I guess in the end difficulty might just be a direct result of number of (relatively) unique features compared to other languages (of which they say Georgian has many)