How Hard Is Each Language to Learn?
Each language's FSI difficulty category and what makes it easier or harder for English speakers — writing system, family, grammar distance.
Calculate your study hours →- A
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- B
- Bengali
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- C
- Cantonese
- Catalan
- Croatian
- Czech
- D
- Danish
- Dutch
- E
- Estonian
- F
- Finnish
- French
- G
- Galician
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- H
- Haitian Creole
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- I
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Italian
- J
- Japanese
- K
- Kannada
- Kazakh
- Khmer
- Korean
- Kurdish
- Kyrgyz
- L
- Lao
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- M
- Macedonian
- Malay
- Mandarin Chinese
- Marathi
- Mongolian
- N
- Nepali
- Norwegian
- P
- Pashto
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Punjabi
- R
- Romanian
- Russian
- S
- Serbian
- Sinhala
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Somali
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- T
- Tagalog
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Turkmen
- U
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- V
- Vietnamese
- X
- Xhosa
- Z
- Zulu