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