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[quote=Anonymous]The state department has a list of the Easiest to hardest language to learn for English Speakers:

Category I Languages: 24-30 weeks (552-690 class hours). A typical week is 23 hours per week in class and 17 hours of self-study.

Languages close to English.

Danish (24 weeks)	
Dutch (24 weeks)	
Italian (24 weeks)	
Norwegian (24 weeks)
Portuguese (24 weeks)
Romanian (24 weeks)	
Swedish (24 weeks)
French (30 weeks)
Spanish (30 weeks)

Category II Languages: Approximately 36 weeks (828 class hours)

German	Haitian Creole	Indonesian
Malay	Swahili

Category III Languages: Approximately 44 weeks (1,012 class hours)

“Hard languages” – Languages with significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from English. This list is not exhaustive.

Albanian	Amharic	Armenian
Azerbaijani	Bengali	Bulgarian
Burmese	Czech	Dari
Estonian	Farsi	Finnish
Georgian	Greek	Hebrew
Hindi	Hungarian	Kazakh
Khmer	Kurdish	Kyrgyz
Lao	Latvian	Lithuanian
Macedonian	Mongolian	Nepali
Polish	Russian	Serbo-Croatian
Slovak	Slovenian	Tajiki
Thai	Turkish	Turkmen
Ukrainian	Urdu	Uzbek
Vietnamese		
Category IV Languages: 88 weeks (2200 class hours)

“Super-hard languages” – Languages which are exceptionally difficult for native English speakers.

Arabic	
Chinese – Cantonese	
Chinese – Mandarin
Japanese	
Korean	[/quote]

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