Language difficulty by US diplomats FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE LANGUAGE DIFFICULTY RANKINGS Category 0 (English Speaker) Category I, (~
Language difficulty by US diplomats FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE
LANGUAGE DIFFICULTY RANKINGS
Category 0 (English Speaker)
Category I, (~24 weeks)
Category II (~30 weeks)
Category III (~36 weeks)
Category IV (~44 weeks)
Category IV* (more difficult)
Category V (~88 weeks)
Unclassified/NA
Blurb:
The Foreign Service Institute (FSI)
has created a list (based on their
experience training US diplomats)
to show the approximate time needed
to learn a specific language as an
English speaker. i.e. the number of
weeks of study time to reach
Speaking and Reading Proficiency.
German is the only
Category II language.
There are no Cat III
languages in Europe.
Time for Cat IV*
is unspecified
but they are concidered
harder than other Cat IV
Arabic is Category V
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