> All languages are easy to learn if you have to learn them. The people who think "Arabic and Chinese are hard" are people who don't have to learn them, they're

> All languages are easy to learn if you have to learn them. The people who think "Arabic and Chinese are hard" are people who don't have to learn them, they're doing it as a hobby or for school. The US State department has the Foreign Service Institute, which is its primary training centre. With-in there they have the School of Language Studies, which teaches more than seventy languages, and over the years/decades it has been found that different language take different amounts of time to become proficient in (on average). * Danish, Dutch, French, Norwegian, etc, take 24 weeks for an English speaker to learn * German takes 30 weeks * Indonesian, Malaysian, Swahili take 36w * Albanian, Bengali, Bosnian, Polish, Urdu, etc, take 44w * Arabic, Japanenese, Korean, Cant/Mand Chinese take 88w See: * https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/ https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Service_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Service_Institute