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language difficulty

Page history last edited by Kaisiris Tallini 1 year, 10 months ago

 

Foreign language difficulty 

 

* Languages preceded by asterisks are usually more difficult for native English speakers to learn than other languages in the same category. 

 

Category I: 23-24 weeks (575-600 hours)
Languages closely related to English
Afrikaans
 Danish
 Dutch
 French
 Italian		 Norwegian
 Portuguese
 Romanian
 Spanish
 Swedish
Category II: 30 weeks (750 hours)
Languages similar to English
German  
Category III: 36 weeks (900 hours)
Languages with linguistic and/or cultural differences from English
Indonesian
 Malaysian		 Swahili
Category IV: 44 weeks (1100 hours)
Languages with significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from English
Albanian
 Amharic
 Armenian
 Azerbaijani
 Bengali
 Bosnian
 Bulgarian
 Burmese
 Croatian
 Czech
*Estonian
*Finnish
*Georgian
 Greek
 Hebrew
 Hindi
*Hungarian
 Icelandic
 Khmer
 Lao
 Latvian		 Lithuanian
 Macedonian
 *Mongolian
 Nepali
 Pashto
 Persian (Dari, Farsi, Tajik)
 Polish
 Russian
 Serbian
 Sinhala
 Slovak
 Slovenian
 Tagalog
*Thai
 Turkish
 Ukrainian
 Urdu
 Uzbek
*Vietnamese
 Xhosa
 Zulu
Category V: 88 weeks (2200 hours)
Languages which are exceptionally difficult for native English speakers
Arabic
 Cantonese (Chinese)
 Mandarin (Chinese)		 *Japanese
 Korean

 

 

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