The hardest language in the world?

I would believe that the hardest languages to learn are the ones that have silent consonants. I remember studying psycology, and seeing a case study of nature vs. nuture that involved speaking languages that use silent consonants. When a child is young enough, their hearing is sensitive to all noise, and they don't know how to disregard certain forms of "white noise". Being so, they can develop an understanding of silent consonants because they know how to differentiate them from other forms of sound. If the differentiation is not made at an early age, the person will never be able to differentiate the sound from all forms of white noise.

Imagine parts of a language you can't even hear to begin with.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

After reading what everybody has said, I have created a hypothesis. It is harder to learn a non-latin based language than it is to learn a latin-based language. I'd love for someone to come up with solid proof that I'm wrong.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by lord-of-shadow

It's all relative based on your innate lingual abilities and how similar the languge you're learning is to your first, as people have already said. There can be no solid proof of anything - for or against your "hypothesis".

I surrender

Is really does depend on your linguistic skills, developed at an early age, Latin based or not. So I guess the question becomes, which language has the most complexity to it?

...Meh. I think I am done answering questions with questions.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.