How Long Does It Take to Learn Each Language?

How long does it take to learn a language? 50 languages ranked by class hours, from Esperanto (150) to Japanese and Mandarin (2.2K). 50 languages ranked by the class hours an English speaker needs to reach working proficiency, mostly from US Foreign Service Institute estimates. Spanish, Italian and the Scandinavian languages need 600 hours, French 750 and German 900; most of the list shares the 1.1K tier, and Arabic, Korean, Mandarin, Japanese, Cantonese and Navajo top it at 2.2K. 50 cards in 4:51, from Esperanto (Needs 150 Hours to learn) to Navajo (Needs 2.2K Hours to learn). Highlights: ▸ Indonesian (Needs 900 Hours to learn): 'Halo' - simple grammar with no tenses or genders to memorise. ▸ Hungarian (Needs 1.1K Hours to learn): 'Szia' - unrelated to its neighbours, with eighteen cases to learn. ▸ Japanese (Needs 2.2K Hours to learn): 'Konnichiwa' - three writing systems at once, widely called the toughest. Chapters: 0:00 Esperanto (Needs 150 Hours to learn) 0:35 Italian (Needs 600 Hours to learn) 1:15 Swahili (Needs 900 Hours to learn) 1:56 Czech (Needs 1.1K Hours to learn) 2:36 Finnish (Needs 1.1K Hours to learn) 3:17 Persian (Needs 1.1K Hours to learn) 3:58 Burmese (Needs 1.1K Hours to learn) 4:38 Navajo (Needs 2.2K Hours to learn) Note: Hour estimates are mostly FSI class-hour figures for English speakers to reach working proficiency (Esperanto is a community estimate); results vary by person and method. Sources: US Foreign Service Institute, foreign language training (state.gov); Archived FSI language lists, Internet Archive (web.archive.org); Effective Language Learning, FSI difficulty table (effectivelanguagelearning.com); Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (dliflc.edu); Esperanto-USA learning-time estimate, via Wikipedia (wikipedia.org). "The Builder" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... A new data video every day. Subscribe to Cat-alytics 🐱 #LanguageLearning #Languages #Comparison #Polyglot