If any aliens come to earth, they would be unrecognizable to us, they might not even be able to step foot on our planet due to massive environmental differences that technology cannot overcome.
Of course their language and even the way they think will be completely alien to us so there will not even be a common ground to communicate or even learn languages.
The old concept of communicating through base numbers would probably not even work as our math is base 10 built around the number of fingers that we have. They might not even have fingers or even worse they might have a thousand meaning they wouldn't even understand the basic concepts of math.
Fact is, any first encounter might be built around us staring at their hideousness through two eyes, while they hear our ugliness through some other form of sensory usage. Then they decide that we're probably tasty and we find ourself slowly rotating over a plasma fire being gently basted.
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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