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Difficulty levels of most European languages for Americans
Here are the difficulty levels of most European languages for Americans.
Anne Meadows for Atlas Obscura, data from FSI These languages include both Germanic ones (Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) and Romance ones (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian). German, on the other hand, might share a lot of basic vocab with English, but according to the FSI it is a “Category II” language (orange)—meaning that it would require around 36 weeks of intense study to master written and spoken proficiency. Thomas Nugent/CC BY-SA 2.0 Still, German is a breeze compared to Europe’s “Category III” languages (in green)—basically all the Slavic ones (Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian), two of the three Baltic ones (Lithuanian and Latvian), plus Greek, Albanian, Turkish, and Icelandic.
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