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Languages by Difficulty to Learn for English Speakers

The Foreign Services Institute of the United States government has 'invested a lot of research' on difficulty to learn languages for English speakers. They have categorized 59 languages into 5 categories based on how many weeks of full-time classes it would take to achieve fluency. Can you put each language into their respective category?
Hint: the categories are NOT balanced
Source - https://langfocus.com/language-features/what-is-the-easiest-language-to-learn-for-english-speakers/
Original source had 61 languages, I merged three branches of Serbo-Croatian together.
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Last updated: March 17, 2026
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Xhosa
Vietnamese
Estonian
Serbo-Croatian
Albanian
Dutch
Korean
Slovak
Arabic
Icelandic
Uzbek
Swahili
Amharic
Urdu
Afrikaans
Danish
Finnish
Bengali
Lithuanian
Khmer
German
Romanian
Bulgarian
Azerbaijani
Russian
Lao
Polish
Swedish
Italian
Mandarin
Portugese
Tagalog
Ukranian
Latvian
Hungarian
Thai
Indonesian
Greek
Burmese
Slovene
Mongolian
Norwegian
Nepali
Spanish
Japanese
Hindi
Armenian
Georgian
Pashto
Macedonian
French
Zulu
Hebrew
Persian
Malaysian
Sinhala
Czech
Cantonese
Turkish
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