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Norwegen: Mehr als ein Schriftsystem, schwierige Dialekte (z. B. Nordnorsk) Schweiz: Schweizer Dialekt ist für Nicht-Muttersprachler des Deutschen sehr schwer zu lernen, Rätoromanisch gilt aufgrund fehlender Lernmaterialien oder Möglichkeiten, es zu verwenden, ebenfalls als schwierig. Die Franzosen und Italiener sind im "einfach" Kategorie. Liechtenstein: Der Dialekt ist für Nicht-Muttersprachler des Deutschen schwer zu erlernen. Luxemburg: Verwendet Luxemburgisch (Moderat), Französisch (Leicht) und Deutsch (Moderat)
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Not included really ought to be blue or some different color that doesn’t look exactly like the Easy-Very Hard category.
Based mostly on the Foreign Service Institute data
I live In Wales, we have a problem understanding ourselves let alone you lot…..
How could Icelandic possibly be more difficult than Slavic languages for an English speaker?
I think this is a good start however it will be dependent on the person and other factors. I have studied both Spanish and Japanese as a native English speaker and learned Japanese quicker and easier than Spanish because to me Japanese made more sense and I actually wanted to learn Japanese. Spanish when I was in school was the only language offered and required to graduate. Also other cultural factors. Spanish speakers tended to make fun of you if you spoke it less than perfect and oftentimes didn’t want to interact with other groups/people whereas the Japanese people loved it if you even attempted to try to speak Japanese.
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Polish needs to be upgraded to the very hard category IMO. It’s harder than Finnish, easier than or on par with Hungarian
I notice the difference in difficulty between German and Dutch, apparently are very similar, especially in written form (or so I have been told) but not (exactly) mutually intelligible.
The Greek alphabet is of course different from the Latin (adding difficulty), but the Greek language sounds very much like Spanish to me (hence not that tough) when I hear Greeks talk among themselves, although many have told me it is nothing like it.
This seems mostly right to me, but I don’t think it’s correct that French is easier than German. It wasn’t for me. French verbs are kind of hard (especially the subjunctive), and the ways French words shape-shift according to their environment are crazy-making. I also seriously question the classification of Romanian as easy. It’s absolutely not easier than German for an English speaker.
As an English speaker, I would say German is much easier to learn than most say it is. Proper pronunciation takes a while to get, though.
There are literally Ukrainians in Finland who have lived here since 2022 and speak Finnish better than Somalis/Arabs who have lived here for over 15 years. Of course of them
I can tell you, English native speakers, they don’t get those „easy“ right, let alone the other ones. Most languages have very specific way of pronunciation e.g. in Spanish the i is not an eye, ever. You have to stop thinking in spelling.
Rather strange choice for the border of Europe
How is another Germanic language (German) harder than Latin languages like French? That doesn’t make sense to me, but maybe that is because it’s the other way around for me. As a German, I find English extremely easy to learn, yet I don’t know how to introduce myself in French after 8 years of French in school.
What is the logic behind Romanian being easy for English speakers, but the other slavic languages being hard? Romanian is a half slavic half romantic language.
These are countries, not languages
Using Country borders for maps about Linguistics is just absolutely useless.
The very hard+ map could also serve as a map of Finno-Ugric languages in Europe.
I agree that learning to read Danish is relatively easy, but speaking and understanding are harder than, for instance, Spanish or German. The vowels are very particular (with about 35 distinct sounds) while the consonants are swallowed and hard to distinguish. The soft D is particularly hard to train yourself on.
This map is no longer accurate according to FSI categories. In addition, FSI does not teach Irish/Gaelic nor Maltese.
Haven’t met any Americans whose sole native language is English that speak or pronounce Spanish well.
They think that Spanish is when you add „el“ before a noun and end it with -o.
So no, if anything this is a self reported map and they are overestimating their ability with all if not all second languages.
Norwegian is simple for an English speaker. The dialects in Norwegian is not much harder than dialect in say Germany. The two different writing systems is quite irrelevant. You just pick one of them gir yourself, but understanding the other system is then very easy
Northern norwegian being hard? Nope, not even close.
Very Hard everywhere.
I think Irish is a little easier than slavic languages like Polish. Not as many noun classes.