7. Hindi Hindi is mainly spoken in India, where both Hindi and English are official languages. But despite India’s history as a British colony, Hindi is one of the hardest languages to learn for English speakers. This Category III language is on the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European...
Being in-country makes learning an order of magnitude faster. A few weeks ago I picked up more Hindi on the streets in India in a few days than I did studying for some months before. And I wasn’t actually trying to learn anything. For the higher-category languages, I imagine being ou...