How long will it take you to reach B2 fluency? Based on FSI research data.
All languages by difficulty (from English)
Afrikaans
6moEasy
Danish
6moEasy
Dutch
6moEasy
French
6moEasy
Italian
6moEasy
Norwegian
6moEasy
Portuguese
6moEasy
Romanian
6moEasy
Spanish
6moEasy
Swedish
6moEasy
German
9moMedium
Indonesian
9moMedium
Malay
9moMedium
Swahili
9moMedium
Bulgarian
11moHard
Czech
11moHard
Estonian
11moHard
Finnish
11moHard
Greek
11moHard
Hebrew
11moHard
Hindi
11moHard
Hungarian
11moHard
Icelandic
11moHard
Latvian
11moHard
Lithuanian
11moHard
Persian
11moHard
Polish
11moHard
Russian
11moHard
Serbian
11moHard
Slovak
11moHard
Thai
11moHard
Turkish
11moHard
Ukrainian
11moHard
Urdu
11moHard
Vietnamese
11moHard
Arabic
22moVery Hard
Chinese (Cantonese)
22moVery Hard
Chinese (Mandarin)
22moVery Hard
Japanese
22moVery Hard
Korean
22moVery Hard
Estimates based on U.S. Foreign Service Institute (FSI) research for professional working proficiency. Actual time varies by study intensity, immersion, and individual factors.
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