Please keep in mind that this ranking only shows the view of the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) and some language students or experts may disagree with the ranking.
If there is a language in this list you would like to learn and it is in a high difficult category, don’t let this stop you from learning it. Even if they are ranked as difficult, it does not mean that they are impossible to learn and maybe it is not hard for you at all.
Category I: 23-24 weeks (575-600 hours) Languages closely related to English | |
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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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