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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hebrew is a Category IV language, as opposed to Mandarin which is Category V.  Students can typically learn Hebrew in half the time as it takes for Mandarin or Japanese.

Hebrew is roughly comparable in difficulty to learning Greek or Russian.

It's also easier than Arabic, because Arabic has many different dialects and quirks that don't exist in Hebrew.  Hebrew makes a good gateway into Arabic, though - because of many shared semitic root words.[/quote]

Just out of curiosity, what is a Cat VI or Cat V language?  I'm not arguing with you, but when I hear "cat 4" or "cat 5" I think of hurricanes, not languages.  Presumably NOAA isn't deciding the difference between languages, so who is?  What is the rubric for the different categories?  What does it actually mean?[/quote]

According to Wikipedia, the department of defense categorizes language by difficultly to learn, most likely in relation to people speaking English as a first language.

Category I language: 
(French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish)
Category II language:
(German, Indonesian)
Category III language: 
(Dari, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi/Urdu, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, and Uzbek)
Category IV language: 
(Modern Standard Arabic, Pashto, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean)

Anyway count me in as someone who doesn't think a lot of non-Jews would really benefit from learning Hebrew.

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