8 Hardest Languages to Learn In The World For English Speakers

As nouns the difference between metallic and metal is that metallic is a color while metal is any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and hard, often a conductor of heat and electricity.

Metallic means consisting entirely or partly of metal.

With over 3500 different grades and almost 2 billion tons of steel manufactured globally each year, steel is the most commonly used metal in the world. With the number of different elements and varying qualities of those elements being added to create steel alloys there are a multitude of different types of steel.

Nacre, the rainbow-sheened material that lines the insides of mussel and other mollusk shells, is known as the toughest material on Earth. Now, a team of researchers led by the University of Michigan has revealed precisely how it works, in real time.

1. Mandarin. Number of native speakers: 1.2 billion.
2. Icelandic. Number of native speakers: 330,000.
3. 3. Japanese. Number of native speakers: 122 million.
4. Hungarian. Number of native speakers: 13 million.
5. Korean.
6. Arabic.
7. Finnish.
8. Polish.

Japanese is ranked by the U.S. Foreign Services Institute as the most difficult language for native English speakers to learn.

And The Easiest Language To Learn Is…

1. Norwegian. This may come as a surprise, but we have ranked Norwegian as the easiest language to learn for English speakers.
2. Swedish.
3. Spanish.
4. Dutch.
5. Portuguese.
6. Indonesian.
7. Italian.
8. French.