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Language Difficulty Ranking for English Speakers (Foreign Service Institute)

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English: Language Difficulty Ranking for English Speakers (Foreign Service Institute)

Category 0:

  • English

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

(*) More difficult for native English speakers to learn than other languages in the same category.

Source: https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-management/foreign-service-institute/
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