Tongue Twister’s: The World’s Hardest Languages
The Economist tells us that “Spanish has six present-tense forms, and six each in the preterite, imperfect, future, conditional, subjunctive and two different past subjunctives, for a total of 48 forms. German has three genders” and “French has thirteen ways to spell the sound “o”: o, ot, ots, os, ocs, au, aux, aud, auds, eau, eaux, ho and ö.” Learn more about the languages vying to be the world’s “hardest.”
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