According to the U.S. Foreign Service Institute, languages from around the world fall into four difficulty categories for Native English Speakers: Category I, Category II, Category III, and ...

FSI estimates it would take 30 weeks of intense study to become proficient in German. CATEGORY III: INTERMEDIATE Category III languages are mainly spoken in Southeast Asia, and they include ...

A map of the FSI's language difficulty rankings in Europe. Courtesy of Fummy/Reddit While the FSI divides the languages they teach into four official categories, Reddit user Fummy used six ...

The FSI estimated that, along with Continental Scandinavian languages, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, the tongues in this category took 23-24 weeks (575-600 class hours) to learn.

Learning a difficult language can be time-consuming, but that shouldn’t put off aspiring learners, says the US State Department’s Foreign Service Institute. According to a freshly-released list ...