How much time is needed to become proficient in a foreign language
The most valuable part in learning foreign languages is a person's language learning ability, motivation and experience; among other are learning environment, intensity of instruction etc. If person’s desire is to reach a high level of proficiency, he/she must understand the importance of continual practice.
Different language skills
The common proficiency is usually measured in terms of four skills:
• Speaking;
• Reading;
• Listening;
• Writing.
Learner with firm intentions has to understand the importance of comprehensive studying and prepare in each sphere equally diligently. Very often listening makes the largest difficulties.
Language difficulty
Here you are the list of languages classified according to the difficulty level for English speaking students.
Category I - Languages closely related to English:
1. Afrikaans Danish
2. Dutch
3. French
4. Italian Norwegian
5. Portuguese
6. Romanian
7. Spanish
8. Swedish
Category II - Languages with significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from English:
1. Albanian
2. Amharic
3. Armenian
4. Azerbaijani
5. Bengali
6. Bosnian
7. Bulgarian
8. Burmese
9. Croatian
10. Czech
11. Greek
12. Hebrew
13. Hindi
14. Icelandic
15. Khmer
16. Lao
17. Latvian Lithuanian | 18. Macedonian
19. Nepali
20. Pashto
21. Persian (Dari, Farsi, Tajik)
22. Polish
23. Russian
24. Serbian
25. Sinhalese
26. Slovak
27. Slovenian
28. Tagalog
29. Turkish
30. Ukrainian
31. Urdu
32. Uzbek
33. Xhosa
34. Zulu |
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