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These Are The Hardest Languages For English Speakers To Learn
These Are The Hardest Languages For English Speakers To Learn
For English speakers, learning Spanish or Italian can take less than a year. Reaching the same level of proficiency in Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, or Arabic may require nearly four times as much study.
This wide gap reflects how closely a language resembles English in its vocabulary, grammar, sounds, and writing system.
This visualization, created by Julie R. Peasley via Visual Capitalist, ranks languages by difficulty using categories and study-time estimates from Effective Language Learning and Rosetta Stone, which reference Foreign Service Institute-style benchmarks.
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