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FSI’s English Speaker Language Difficulty - Coggle Diagram
FSI’s English Speaker Language Difficulty
Category I
24-30 weeks (600-750 class hours)
Languages more similar to English
(24 weeks)
Norwegian :flag-no:
Dutch :flag-nl:
Italian :flag-it:
Romanian :flag-ro:
Danish :flag-dk:
Spanish :flag-es:
Portuguese :flag-pt: :flag-br: :flag-ao: :flag-mz: :flag-st:
Swedish :flag-se:
(30 weeks)
French :flag-fr:
Category II
Approximately 36 weeks (900 class hours)
Haitian Creole :flag-ht:
Swahili :flag-tz: :flag-ke: :flag-rw: :flag-ug:
Malay :flag-my: :flag-bn:
Indonesian :flag-id:
German :flag-de:
Category III
Approximately 44 weeks (1100 class hours)
“Hard languages” – Languages with significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from English. This list is not exhaustive.
Latvian :flag-lv:
Lithuanian :flag-lt:
Lao :flag-la:
Macedonian :flag-mk:
Kyrgyz :flag-kg:
Mongolian :flag-mn:
Kurdish :flag-iq:
Nepali :flag-np:
Khmer :flag-kh:
Polish :flag-pl:
Kazakh :flag-kz:
Russian :flag-ru:
Icelandic :flag-is:
Serbo-Croatian :flag-rs: :flag-hr: :flag-ba: :flag-me: :flag-xk:
Hungarian :flag-hu:
Sinhala :flag-lk:
Hindi :flag-in:
Slovak :flag-sk:
Hebrew :flag-il:
Slovenian :flag-si:
Greek :flag-gr:
Somali :flag-so:
Georgian :flag-ge:
Tagalog :flag-ph:
Finnish :flag-fi:
Tajiki :flag-tj:
Farsi :flag-ir:
Tamil :flag-in: :flag-lk:
Estonian :flag-ee:
Telugu :flag-in:
Dari :flag-af:
Thai :flag-th:
Czech :flag-cz:
Tibetan :flag-cn:
Burmese :flag-mm:
Turkish :flag-tr:
Bulgarian :flag-bg:
Turkmen :flag-tm:
Bengali :flag-bd:
Ukrainian :flag-ua:
Azerbaijani :flag-az:
Urdu :flag-pk: :flag-in:
Armenian :flag-am:
Uzbek :flag-uz:
Amharic :flag-et:
Vietnamese :flag-vn:
Albanian :flag-al:
Category IV
88 weeks (2200 class hours)
“Super-hard languages” – Languages which are exceptionally difficult for native English speakers.
Chinese - Cantonese :flag-cn:
Chinese - Mandarin :flag-cn:
Japanese :flag-jp:
Korean :flag-kr: :flag-kp:
Arabic :flag-sa: :flag-eg: :flag-ae: