https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/09/18/which-languages-take-the-longest-to-learn
The difficulty in learning a foreign language lies not only in its
inherent complexity. Languages are complex in different ways (though
all are learnable by infants). The main reason a language is hard is
that it is different from your own.
America’s State Department places the languages it teaches diplomats
into four categories (see chart), with estimates of how long they take
to learn them ranging from 24 to 88 weeks. What underlies the
difficulty of such languages for an English-speaker?
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