Korean can be seen as a simplified Chinese and Japanese. Fluent in 3 Months Courses: Check out our courses and guides to learn the Fluent in 3 Months method. It is learning about the culture to which that language belongs and its historic and present-day context. Their subjunctive and conditional moods are bona fide moods, not just composite of other moods and modal verbs, Prepositions merge with articles, many nouns can have two different genders, adjectives must match in number and gender, Absolutely NO way they can be in the same tier, The map above visualizes the languages of Europe (at least those deemed diplomatically important enough to be taught at the FSI). I wonder if the difficulty would change if the individual learning the language were already bilingual beforehand, say for someone who spoke english and spanish? Yes, 3 months is enough for most people to become fluent in Esperanto. German noun cases are really complicated for me (Romanian). How do you teach people Bosnian or Croatian language? I did!). What Is Gaeilge? I think this site also neglects that learning a language is more than just learning its grammar and rules. Read the following sections down to learn more. That being said when I was an Arabic translator ten years ago, Arabic was considered to be just a difficult category four and Japanese was considered category three so Im not sure how accurate this list is. T Fluentirish anseo faoi do choinne. So it cannot be easier for English speaker to learn Bahasa Indonesia, especially with the fact that it is easier for foreigner to get Indonesian girlfriend than us, the male demographic. Of course, it would take quite a long time to truly learn the Irish language at an elite level. We are a long cry from arrogant perfectionists, something that holds too many people back from speaking a language. THANK you! Why is Arabic, a semitic language, more difficult than Hebrew? Google's service, offered free of charge, instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages. BTW, what exactly do you mean by is sounds a lot more like Korean than English? Fun little list here though.