Why it worked
The video uses a high-density, fast-paced infographic style that provides immediate value and curiosity-inducing facts, encouraging viewers to watch until the end to see where their language ranks.
Summary
This video presents a list of the hardest languages to learn, ranked by the estimated time required to reach fluency. It provides brief, interesting facts about the writing systems, grammar, or pronunciation challenges for each language.
Structure
- 1Introduction to the hardest languages
- 2Displaying languages with 7 to 5 years fluency time
- 3Displaying languages with 4.9 to 3.4 years fluency time
- 4Closing with a call to action
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Hardest languages to learn
Part 1/2
TIME UNTIL 7 Years FLUENCY
Mandarin
This is the most spoken language in the world!
TIME UNTIL 6.7 Years FLUENCY
Filipino
This language has an uncommon sentence structure.
TIME UNTIL 6.2 Years FLUENCY
Arabic
In the Arabic language, you have to read from the right to the left.
TIME UNTIL 6 Years FLUENCY
Japanese
You need to learn thousands of elements before learning how to write.
TIME UNTIL 5.8 Years FLUENCY
Korean
Korean has its own alphabet.
TIME UNTIL 5.5 Years FLUENCY
Vietnamese
Unusual grammar and difficult pronunciation make this one a hard one.
TIME UNTIL 5.4 Years FLUENCY
Hungarian
Hungarian grammar is very hard for English speakers.
TIME UNTIL 5.3 Years FLUENCY
Finnish
Have you ever hear about classical or old-fashioned Finnish? It exists.
TIME UNTIL 5.1 Years FLUENCY
Albanian
This language has a lot of exceptions, good luck remembering them all.
TIME UNTIL 5 Years FLUENCY
Gaelic
It has many dialects making it one of the hardest languages to pick up.
TIME UNTIL 4.9 Years FLUENCY
Navajo
Spoken by Native Americans, it only has about 170,000 speakers.
TIME UNTIL 4.8 Years FLUENCY
Icelandic
Only 400,000 people speak this language.
TIME UNTIL 4.7 Years FLUENCY
Estonian
Are you ready for a challenge?
TIME UNTIL 4.6 Years FLUENCY
Armenian
This "ej" means "no" and it's pronounced this way "voch"...
TIME UNTIL 4.5 Years FLUENCY
Ukrainian
The pronunciation is what will get you.
TIME UNTIL 4.4 Years FLUENCY
Lao
Mastering this language is a wild ride.
TIME UNTIL 4.2 Years FLUENCY
Russian
Spelling can be hard for native English speakers.
TIME UNTIL 4.2 Years FLUENCY
Thai
I've heard that writing is not easy.
TIME UNTIL 4.1 Years FLUENCY
Bosnian
It is similar to Serbian and Croatian in its written and spoken form.
TIME UNTIL 4 Years FLUENCY
Urdu
Can you guess which country it belongs to? It is spoken in Pakistan!
TIME UNTIL 4 Years FLUENCY
Greek
An all-new alphabet to learn. Are you ready?
TIME UNTIL 3.9 Years FLUENCY
Turkish
If you speak Japanese, Korean, or Finnish it's going to be easy to learn it.
TIME UNTIL 3.8 Years FLUENCY
Hindi
At least Hindi is very phonetic, which means it's spelled the way it sounds.
TIME UNTIL 3.7 Years FLUENCY
Croatian
"zdravo" means "hello"!
TIME UNTIL 3.6 Years FLUENCY
Polish
There's a lot of sounds that are new to English speakers.
TIME UNTIL 3.4 Years FLUENCY
Hebrew
The Hebrew alphabet contains 22 characters.