Jeg er autodidakt.. I taught myself Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
I can muddle my way thru Icelandic, Dutch, German, Italian, French and Spanish.
Finnish has not made it to Denmark 💖💖💖
So all the Uralic languages are “good luck”
Depends on the language you start from… i think that from the finnish point of view the colors should be reversed.
Torille!
Every language is equally sophisticated.
In my opinion this is nonsense, Estonian ( and Fin i believe too) is a very logical language, especially in terms of cases. And to think that Russian is simpler is strange.
Kurwa
Am I the only one infuriated that 30 weeks and 24 weeks should be the other way around on the list?
Those all are real words, all of them are different forms of ONE WORD, koira (dog in finnish). Theyre all used differently and this technique is used for EVERY SINGLE SUBSTANTIVE
So yeah, good luck indeed
French on par with Swedish (i.e. Nordic English with consistent grammar) and its cousins, with Spanish, etc? Doubt it.
accurate
This map is very vague. It all depends what native language you are speaking and what foreign languages you know. The more languages you know, the easier tol learn additional ones.
For example I am from northern parts of Lithuania, given my local dialect, I can actually read in Latvian and understand half of the words, meaning Latvian would be easy to learn.
I know a little bit of Russian, so any Slavic group language, could be potentially easier to learn.
Did study Latin, so actually while reading in Spanish or Italian, understand like 15% of the words. Also means that those languages would be easier for me to learn.
So the ability to learn languages are based on individual skills and knowledge.
I’m Russian native used to learn Finnish in university for several months and I can’t say the learning one is “good luck” 
Subjective depends on your start point. Apparently Turks find it not so bad and some similarities are found in the grammar and pronunciation. If you have English as a first language Flemish languages are not too hard, a lot of the words are the same.
Sok szerencsét
The circlejerk about how difficult finnish is has gotten rly boring ngl
Swedish is an official language in Finland though, which they’ve apparently completely missed in this map. Finland should be striped.
Sweden also doesn’t have an official language. They have a majority language and they’ve got minority languages.
This is biased af. English isn’t any easier than for example Spanish. It’s only in 12 weeks because the person who made the map can speak it. Also in the case of Finland, are we talking about Finnish or Swedish? What about Ireland or Switzerland?
I think albania and turkey should be added bucause its hard asf
What are these colors? English should be blue, 24wk should be green, 30wk yellow, 44 red and Good luck should be black.
Languages are not difficult by nature. Their purpose is to enable communication rather than make it more difficult. Native Finns, Estonians and Hungarians don’t go about whining how difficult it is to express themselves because their language is hard.
I think it’s kinda sad that people think Finnish is impossible. How can it when we have plenty of immigrants who speak Finnish? People whose mother tounge is Russian, Arabic, Turkish, French, Spanish, Vietnamese etc.
Yeah, they will *never* reach native level but that’s not necessary.
I concurr. Finnish is way more structured and regular than e.g. Polish. Also, Estonian has a lot of German, Slavic and even Baltic influences, so there should be more intelligibility for most Europeans than with Finnish.
I’m pretty sure the extra 6 weeks for German is just because of the article table. /s
Like I would think some would say: hupsista keikkaa
Irish is very different to English, that’s going to take longer to learn, though I see it was grouped with the UK here.
Wait. What? Finnish is actually quite easy.
Being a Finn living in Netherlands I have observed Zwedes learn University levels Dutch in 4-6 months. Dutch learning Finnish takes 2-8 years depending on motivation and `language talent`. A Dutch person can learn Zwedish (second language in Finland) in 6 mondts to 2 years. This is just what I have seen in people around me.
I wonder how different this map would look from a perspective of someone who knows squat about English. Let’s say, if a person living in rural China starts to learn European languages.
Deutsche is basically old English.
A largely meaningless map if you don’t know the learner’s native language. If you’re a native French speaker, obviously learning English is a lot easier than learning Finnish – you already know a big chuck of English vocabulary without even realizing it. If your native language is Estonian, would it really be easier to learn English than Finnish?
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Jeg er autodidakt.. I taught myself Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
I can muddle my way thru Icelandic, Dutch, German, Italian, French and Spanish.
Finnish has not made it to Denmark 💖💖💖
So all the Uralic languages are “good luck”
Depends on the language you start from… i think that from the finnish point of view the colors should be reversed.
Torille!
Every language is equally sophisticated.
In my opinion this is nonsense, Estonian ( and Fin i believe too) is a very logical language, especially in terms of cases. And to think that Russian is simpler is strange.
Kurwa
Am I the only one infuriated that 30 weeks and 24 weeks should be the other way around on the list?
Glhf!!!
Basque is also non-trivial
Haha
Koira, koiran, koiraa, koirana, koiraksi, koirasta, koiraan, koirassa, koiralle, koiralta, koiralla, koirat, koirien, koiria, koirina, koiriksi, koirista, koiriin, koirissa, koirille, koirilta, koirilla, koirineen, koiratta, koirin
Those all are real words, all of them are different forms of ONE WORD, koira (dog in finnish). Theyre all used differently and this technique is used for EVERY SINGLE SUBSTANTIVE
So yeah, good luck indeed
French on par with Swedish (i.e. Nordic English with consistent grammar) and its cousins, with Spanish, etc? Doubt it.
accurate
This map is very vague. It all depends what native language you are speaking and what foreign languages you know. The more languages you know, the easier tol learn additional ones.
For example I am from northern parts of Lithuania, given my local dialect, I can actually read in Latvian and understand half of the words, meaning Latvian would be easy to learn.
I know a little bit of Russian, so any Slavic group language, could be potentially easier to learn.
Did study Latin, so actually while reading in Spanish or Italian, understand like 15% of the words. Also means that those languages would be easier for me to learn.
So the ability to learn languages are based on individual skills and knowledge.
I’m Russian native used to learn Finnish in university for several months and I can’t say the learning one is “good luck” 
Subjective depends on your start point. Apparently Turks find it not so bad and some similarities are found in the grammar and pronunciation. If you have English as a first language Flemish languages are not too hard, a lot of the words are the same.
Sok szerencsét
The circlejerk about how difficult finnish is has gotten rly boring ngl
Swedish is an official language in Finland though, which they’ve apparently completely missed in this map. Finland should be striped.
Sweden also doesn’t have an official language. They have a majority language and they’ve got minority languages.
This is biased af. English isn’t any easier than for example Spanish. It’s only in 12 weeks because the person who made the map can speak it. Also in the case of Finland, are we talking about Finnish or Swedish? What about Ireland or Switzerland?
I think albania and turkey should be added bucause its hard asf
thanks! 😀
There is no source on the map, but here is one (looks about the same by quick glance): [Language Difficulty ranking](https://effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/language-difficulty/) by FSI for native Enlish speakers.
Albanian 40 weeks?! Hem….
I mean I’m trying 🙁
These bullshit maps should just be forbidden.
Whoever made this has never learned a language
What are these colors? English should be blue, 24wk should be green, 30wk yellow, 44 red and Good luck should be black.
Languages are not difficult by nature. Their purpose is to enable communication rather than make it more difficult. Native Finns, Estonians and Hungarians don’t go about whining how difficult it is to express themselves because their language is hard.
I think it’s kinda sad that people think Finnish is impossible. How can it when we have plenty of immigrants who speak Finnish? People whose mother tounge is Russian, Arabic, Turkish, French, Spanish, Vietnamese etc.
Yeah, they will *never* reach native level but that’s not necessary.
I concurr. Finnish is way more structured and regular than e.g. Polish. Also, Estonian has a lot of German, Slavic and even Baltic influences, so there should be more intelligibility for most Europeans than with Finnish.
I’m pretty sure the extra 6 weeks for German is just because of the article table. /s
Like I would think some would say: hupsista keikkaa
Irish is very different to English, that’s going to take longer to learn, though I see it was grouped with the UK here.
Wait. What? Finnish is actually quite easy.
Being a Finn living in Netherlands I have observed Zwedes learn University levels Dutch in 4-6 months. Dutch learning Finnish takes 2-8 years depending on motivation and `language talent`. A Dutch person can learn Zwedish (second language in Finland) in 6 mondts to 2 years. This is just what I have seen in people around me.
I wonder how different this map would look from a perspective of someone who knows squat about English. Let’s say, if a person living in rural China starts to learn European languages.
Deutsche is basically old English.
A largely meaningless map if you don’t know the learner’s native language. If you’re a native French speaker, obviously learning English is a lot easier than learning Finnish – you already know a big chuck of English vocabulary without even realizing it. If your native language is Estonian, would it really be easier to learn English than Finnish?