Most Difficult Languages for English Speakers - Statistics

General Stats

Answer Stats

Difficulty Tier	Number of Native Speakers	Language	% Correct
Category III	~150 million	Russian	95%
Category IV	~128 milion	Japanese	94%
Category IV	~350 million	Arabic	92%
Category IV	~920 million	Mandarin	92%
Category IV	~80 million	Korean	91%
Category III	~341 million	Hindi	85%
Category III	~76 million	Vietnamese	82%
Category III	~80 million	Turkish	80%
Category III	~36 million	Thai	78%
Category III	~14 million	Greek	74%
Category III	~13 million	Hungarian	74%
Category III	~45 million	Polish	74%
Category III	~300 million	Bengali	72%
Category III	~70 million	Farsi	69%
Category III	~40 million	Ukrainian	66%
Category IV	~80 million	Cantonese	64%
Category III	~23 million	Tagalog	61%
Category III	~62 million	Urdu	61%
Category III	~16 million	Khmer	60%
Category III	~21 million	Serbo-Croatian	60%
Category III	~75 million	Tamil	59%
Category III	~13 million	Kazakh	57%
Category III	~30 million	Lao	55%
Category III	~34 million	Uzbek	53%
Category III	~33 million	Burmese	52%
Category III	~30 million	Azerbaijani	51%
Category III	~11 million	Czech	51%
Category III	~16 million	Nepali	49%
Category III	~82 million	Telugu	43%
Category III	~11 million	Turkmen	42%
Category III	~32 million	Amharic	40%
Category III	~17 million	Sinhala	33%
Category III	~21 million	Kurdish	28%
Category III	~22 million	Somali	23%
Category III	~21 million	Dari	14%