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Language Difficulty Guide

The Language Difficulty Guide categorizes languages into nine tiers based on their complexity, with estimated learning times ranging from 6 to 54 months. Each tier is defined by script difficulty and grammatical complexity, with specific languages listed under each tier. Additionally, the guide suggests that knowing one language can facilitate learning another within the same group, though not strictly by language family.

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Language Difficulty Guide

The Language Difficulty Guide categorizes languages into nine tiers based on their complexity, with estimated learning times ranging from 6 to 54 months. Each tier is defined by script difficulty and grammatical complexity, with specific languages listed under each tier. Additionally, the guide suggests that knowing one language can facilitate learning another within the same group, though not strictly by language family.

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Language Difficulty Guide

TIER 1 TIER 2 TIER 3


6 months 12 months 18 months
•Simple script •Simple script •Simple script
•Many cognates •Simple grammar & syntax •Rather complex grammar
Afrikaans Danish*+ Dutch+ Tagalog Indonesian Malaysian Greek Icelandic Polish
French*+ German*+^ Italian*+ Swahili Irish+ Welsh+ Czech Slovak Latvian
Latin*^ Norwegian*+ Portuguese*+ Lithuanian
Romanian Spanish*+ Swedish*+

TIER 4 TIER 5 TIER 6


24 months 30 months 36 months
•Rather difficult script •Simple script •Rather difficult script
•Rather complex grammar •Very complex grammar •Complex grammar
Russian*+ Ukrainian Bulgarian Finnish Estonian Hungarian Farsi Pashto Urdu
Macedonian Turkish+ Azerbaijani Vietnamese~ Georgian Armenian Hindi
Telugu Mongolian

TIER 7 TIER 8 TIER 9


42 months 48 months 54 months
•Difficult script •Very difficult script •Logographs or multiple scripts
•Complex grammar •Complex grammar •Difficult grammar or word order
Korean*+ Thai~ Lao~ Arabic*+ Tibetan Burmese~ Cantonese*~ Japanese*+ Mandarin*~
Khmer Hebrew

* = StoryLearning courses available Note: Estimated times can vary by learner. These are
+ = StoryLearning books available intended to be a general guideline for reaching a B2
^ = Most difficult language in the tier level, assuming 3+ hours of effective learning daily.
~ = Tonal language For more information visit www.storylearning.com

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Language Difficulty Guide

Want an extra boost in a


French Afrikaans language? If you know one Polish
Italian Danish language in the circle, it will be Czech
Portuguese Dutch easier to learn another. Slovak
Latvian
Romanian German Russian
Lithuanian
Spanish Norwegian Note: These are not grouped Ukrainian
Latin Swedish by language family. Bulgarian
Greek Icelandic Similarities in the language Macedonian
may be grammar, cognates,
writing system, or another
connection.

Pashto
Indonesian Finnish
Turkish Urdu Georgian
Malaysian Estonian
Azerbaijani Hindi Armenian
Tagalog Hungarian
Telugu

Hebrew Cantonese
Farsi Japanese Thai
Arabic Burmese Irish
Mandarin Lao
Swahili* Tibetan Welsh
Vietnamese Khmer
*only Arabic
Korean

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