Which languages are difficult?

‘The difficulty in learning a foreign language lies not only in its inherent complexity. Languages are complex in different ways (though all are learnable by infants). The main reason a language is hard is that it is different from your own.’

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/which-languages-take-the-longest-to-learn-20231031-p5ege7.html

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