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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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Icelandic
Serbo-Croatian
Korean
Xhosa
Urdu
Georgian
Afrikaans
Swahili
Bulgarian
Mongolian
Uzbek
Malaysian
Danish
Dutch
Hebrew
Tagalog
Lithuanian
Khmer
Slovene
Cantonese
Macedonian
Portugese
Sinhala
Albanian
Turkish
Russian
Japanese
Romanian
Spanish
Bengali
Arabic
Mandarin
Greek
Latvian
Czech
Polish
French
Persian
Hindi
Italian
Thai
Estonian
Azerbaijani
Pashto
Vietnamese
Indonesian
Lao
Swedish
Amharic
Zulu
Slovak
Hungarian
Norwegian
Finnish
Armenian
Burmese
Nepali
Ukranian
German
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Category IV
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