Languages of the world

From Spanish to Korean: The Easiest and Most Difficult Languages to Learn (Infographic)

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Looking to learn a new language? Perhaps you’re torn between a semester in Spain versus a semester in Turkey and you discovered, thanks to this infographic, that Spanish is easier to learn than Turkish. Depending on your personality, you may choose to go with the more challenging experience or opt for a more comfortable, easygoing semester abroad. If you’re an overachiever, scroll down to the last graph and you’ll find the hardest languages to learn — these require approximately 2,200 hours of class time versus the 600 hours for the easier languages (the infographic applies to English speakers).

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