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>The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) has created a list to show the approximate time you need to learn a specific language as an English speaker. After this particular study time you will reach “Speaking 3: General Professional Proficiency in Speaking (S3)” and “Reading 3: General Professional Proficiency in Reading (R3)”

>Category I: 23-24 weeks (575-600 hours)
Afrikaans
Danish
Dutch
French
Italian
Norwegian
Portuguese
Romanian
Spanish
Swedish

>Category II: 30 weeks (750 hours)
German

>Category III: 36 weeks (900 hours)
Indonesian
Malaysian
Swahili

>Category IV: 44 weeks (1100 hours)
Albanian
Amharic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Bengali
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Burmese
Croatian
Czech
*Estonian
*Finnish
*Georgian
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
*Hungarian
Icelandic
Khmer
Lao
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
*Mongolian
Nepali
Pashto
Persian (Dari, Farsi, Tajik)
Polish
Russian
Serbian
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Tagalog
*Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
*Vietnamese
Xhosa
Zulu

>Category V: 88 weeks (2200 hours)
Arabic
Cantonese (Chinese)
Mandarin (Chinese)
*Japanese
Korean

* Languages preceded by asterisks are usually more difficult for native English speakers to learn than other languages in the same category.

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