What's the #1 most challenging foreign language to understand for a Native American English speaker?

[Anonymous]

[AI Opinion]

Determining the most challenging foreign language depends on various factors, including linguistic distance and complexity. For many Native American English speakers, languages such as Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, or Russian are considered challenging due to differences in grammar, script, pronunciation, and tonal nature (in the case of Mandarin). Personal motivation and exposure can also influence perceived difficulty.

[jennifer_bloom]

I am going to guess that English is hard for native North Americans cause all Asian languages are complex, but are still self relational in the referencing system they use and apply, while English is derived from different linguistic roots so has many exceptions and non traditional rules in their syntax and grammar.

[Anonymous]

Eastern languages because they don't use a similar alphabet system like all the romance languages, so the sounds are going to be very foreign to you. You're starting from nothing and working your way up. Whereas in something like Spanish you kind of know some of the sounds and you don't need as much practice.