Language Difficulty Ranking

>The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) has created a list to show the approximate time you need to learn a specific language as an English speaker. After this particular study time you will reach “Speaking 3: General Professional Proficiency in Speaking (S3)” and “Reading 3: General Professional Proficiency in Reading (R3)”

>Category I: 23-24 weeks (575-600 hours)
Afrikaans
Danish
Dutch
French
Italian
Norwegian
Portuguese
Romanian
Spanish
Swedish

>Category II: 30 weeks (750 hours)
German

>Category III: 36 weeks (900 hours)
Indonesian
Malaysian
Swahili

>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

* Languages preceded by asterisks are usually more difficult for native English speakers to learn than other languages in the same category.

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the difficulty of Japanese's is the complexity of the variation of how to write
We often use four way of writing,and we mix them to represent one phrase.
In addition,chinese character play a very important role in my language so learning writing Japanese is too difficult.
Merely speaking it is not as difficult as writing

allthearabicyouneverlearnedthefirsttimearound.com/p3/p3-ch3/arabic-numbers/

Take off the proxy you fucking tool. Not even Japanese natives are this delusional in regards the difficult of Japanese for gaijin.

Is there any question?

Kek finnish is easy, spoken it all my life

Vietnamese is easy fãm, it has some of the simplest grammar you would ever find.

Speaking on the behalf of native Portuguese speakers I must say that it takes a nearly impossible effort to speak an irrepressible correct form of Portuguese.
Even if one reads allot of books (no one does really) it's still difficult because there's a different form for each conjugation off every single verb... English it's easy in comparison, it's like Creole hunga bonga dialect to us.

But your alphabet looks very weird.
Though I know the complexity is used to represent your voice tone.

how are black people treated in japan? can they become real members of friend circles?

There're only 22 consonants and 11 vowels tho (through diphthongs and triphthongs might cause some confusings).

Our grammar is alike to Malay, but with very little affixs and stuffs.

We do not in general care about races,or colors.
We often treat white as a great people but it's just reflection of the inferiority complex toward western so we don't especially discriminate black from others.
In addition,WE are discriminated in the white world lol

>getting our own category
We are the specialist snowflakes.

This. Seeing portuguese there was a surprise.

how good is a level 3

yep, that list must be wrong. chinese is so easy. i've spoken and written chinese my whole life. what's so tough about it?

Cut it out. Everyone thinks that their language is the the most difficult themost impossible yaddda yadda.

probably because the vocabulary is entirely different.

>vocabulary
Before speaking it you should talk about their very weird characters?
I am a user of that and the more we study about it the more effective,systematic,and meaningful we find it,but for the western it is merely stupid unsystematic characters.

what's your favorite kirby game

It's fitting how Icelandic and Finnish, the best Nordic languages, are also the among the harder ones overall.

ultra super deluxe,or super star ultra
But I love all Kirby games

Tru dat

not really

Why is Arabic harder than Hebrew?

The reason that Japanese is difficult for anglophones is that they cannot pronounce many of the sounds that occur in these languages and cannot handle the lack of pronouns, same for other asterisk marked languages on the list

This, where's the colombian who says spanish is the most complex way of communication now?

I read somewhere that for foreigners merely speaking my language is easier than mastering writing it,but it seems that it's problem of degree and both writing and speaking are both fuckingly difficult.

what do you think of planet robobot

Unfortunately I haven't bought it…I wanna play it.

>Korean
>hard
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

>*Japanese
>*
Fuck.