Map Ranks Languages From Least To Most Difficult To Learn.

The time it takes to learn a language is something every learner takes into account before deciding to learn a certain language. To help you make a time-efficient decision, The Foreign Service Institute sorted major languages around the world into 5 categories of difficulty according to their differences from English. Let’s see some maps first and then jump right to the categories. 


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CATEGORY I: 23-24 WEEKS (575-600 HOURS)

  • Afrikaans 
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • French
  • Italian 
  • Norwegian 
  • Spanish
  • Swedish 
  • Portuguese 
  • Romanian 

CATEGORY II: 30 WEEKS (750 HOURS)

  • German

CATEGORY III: 36 WEEKS (900 HOURS)

  • Indonesian 
  • Swahili 
  • Malaysian 

CATEGORY IV: 44 WEEKS (1100 HOURS)

  • 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) 

  • Arabic
  • Cantonese (Chinese)
  • Mandarin (Chinese)
  • *Japanese 
  • Korean
* usually more difficult than the languages in the same category. 
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