Time It Takes To Learn Languages | Comparison 

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Fun fact: This won't apply to you if you're not a native English speaker.

Most of the people after seeing their country: “ I have seen enough, I’m satisfied”

Every language: displays a round number of hours to learn German: 759

Bro couldn't even be bothered to get the Dutch flag correct so at this point who knows how accurate any of the information itself even is

Fun fact : everyone is waiting for their language.

When you see your main language: ok, that's enough for me

It's takes one 10 second Google search to know that the flag of Germany isn't Dutch.

fun fact, you actually have to practice any langauge you've learned till the last day of your life. and that's not sad or something you have to worry about. cause in the future when you become almost fluent all what you have to worry about is including this language in your daily life as much as you can. languages is all about practicing! it's been more than 7 years since I started this journy and I'm sure that I'm making plenty of mistakes and I'm still not sure sometimes if what I'm saying is grammaly correct? but I'm satisfied and I appreciate that I learned English by my own, my goal is to be C2 in English and be good enough in Spanish wish me luck!

let’s thank him for taking the time to learn all the languages.

Me: learning japanese “Japanese 2200 hours” *okay i maybe do regret choosing to learn japanese* edit: i stopped learning japanese MONTHS ago

It bugs me that they used the wrong flag for Dutch lmao

I am a native Vietnamese speaker and fluent in English, and I can confirm learning new languages can be tough. I know some French, though I need to keep practicing speaking and writing so I can get better at it. After French, I will study Spanish because it is a common language. Best of luck to everyone learning a new language!

Dutch watching German flag instead of theirs: why God, why :(

Others country:hallo, hello Russian:zdravstvuyte

Me seeing these people say they’ve been studying for 3+ years and still can’t speak what their learning fluently is making me break a sweat

Learning a new language can be both challenging and rewarding. When we study a new language, we expand our horizons and open up new opportunities for communication and understanding. Practice and consistency are key to mastering a language, so it's important to be patient and persistent in our efforts. By immersing ourselves in the language through listening, speaking, reading, and writing, we can gradually improve our skills and become fluent in that language. Ultimately, the journey of learning a new language can be a fulfilling experience that enriches our lives in many ways.

Last time I checked Dutch flag wasn't the same as the German one.

Ah yes. The Dutch flag. Black, Red and Yellow, as it is. So memorable.

Duolingo: (sees the long amount of hours) Also duolingo: nonsense.

Top 13 Learn Hours Easier Difference Language. 1. Spanish (23.75 Week) 2. Italian (23.8 Week) 3. Franch (23.85 Week) 4. Dutch (23.85 Week) 5. Swedish (23.9 Week) 6. Afrikaans (23.95 Week) 7. Norwegian (23.95 Week) 8. Portuguese (24 Week) 9. Danish (24 Week) 10. Romanian (24 Week) 11. Germany (32.6 Week) 12. Indonesian (36 Week) 13. Malaysian (36.2 Week) Top 24 Learn Hours Normal-Medium Difference Language. 1. Polish (53 Week💀) 2. Russian (52.4 Week💀) 3. Turkish (52 Week💀) 4. Greek (51.4 Week) 5. Albanian (51.1 Week) 6. Czech (51 Week) 7. Icelandio (50 Week) 8. Thai (49.9 Week) 9. Hungarian (49.4 Week) 10. Mongolian (48.5 Week) 11. Estonian (48.3 Week) 12. Vietnamese (48 Week) 13. Finnish (48 Week) (Normal Difference) 14. Xhosa (47.9 Week) 15. Urdu (47.5 Week) 16. Ukranian (47.2 Week) 17. Tagalog (47 Week) 18. Serbian (46 Week) 19. Croatian (46 Week) 20. Nepali (45.8 Week) 21. Latvian (45.6 Week) 22. Hindi (45 Week) 23. Georgian (44 Week) 24. Swahili (43 Week) Top 5 Learn Hours Hardest Difference Language. 1. Chinese Cantonese (China 58 Week☠️) 2. Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan 57 Week☠️) 3. Arabic (56 Week☠️) 4. Japanese (55 Week☠️) 5. Korean (55 Week☠️)

Others: French is easy Me after 4 years of learning it at school: les croissants 😏

Every language: "Good morning", "Ahoj", "Hello" (...) Polish: Cze *ść*

Easiest language : Your own language and English

After studying English Italian was so much easier for me. And my native Russian has many similar words too. Currently I am learning Japanese and it had grammar similarities with Kazakh. Maybe because according to one theory, Japanese and Turkic language come from one region - Altai.

Others: french is easy Me: Went to a french emersion school for 3 years and still learning conjugations

Most people: i've seen my language, i'm satisfied Me, a Dutch person: WHY DID YOU PUT THE GERMAN FLAG BY THE DUTCH LANGUAGE, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU

Polish : needs to learn for 2000 hours Me who remembers the whole polish cow song in 2 days : ok

the main way russian say hello is not Здравствуйте (zdravstvuyte), its Привет (privet).

Everyone gangsta till a guy reads every minecraft enchanting table language

Tbh, the amount of time it takes to learn depends on your native language.

"Zdravstvuyte", this is a complicated option when they say hello to strangers and respected people, and just say hello in a friendly way "privet"

In which universe is Russian harder than Icelandic, Georgian or Greek to learn 😂😂😂😂 Edit: I challenge you to learn Georgian in 11,000 hours instead of 1,100 hours. I'll be the judge of how well you've done. There's a reason why Mandarin is 5/5 stars in complexity, followed by Georgian - 4.5/5 stars complexity 😂

Me, who speaks Mandarin and Cantonese : I have already defeated the boss.

Italian: "Hey, it will take you only 580 hours to learn me!" Average italian guy: he cannot even use subjunctive properly himself

Someone who just learned Cantonese in 2499 hours: *I see this as an absolutly win*

Dutch is not spoken in Germany 😂 Dutch is spoken in the Netherlands ‼️ Flag of Netherlands: 🇳🇱 Flag of Germany: 🇩🇪

I learned english in 3 years, but I was only able to understand natives after 4 years. I learnt english from playing games only, to the point where I could even understand natives, which was very difficult to me because the pronunciation is so different and inconsistent. It came to me naturally. :)

Me sees the German flag for Dutch and later seeing Germany instead of German: CONFUSED GERMANIC SCREAMING

Maturity is when u realise that hardest language is sanskrit and u can't learn it becoz it has billions of words

Depends on the person how fast they pick it up and it depends on what languages you already know because lots of languages have the same words.

Asia: "what if we had like, really hard languages"

Me: who know Cantonese Also me: I'm 2500 hours ahead of everyone.

Dutch: German flag German: German flag The Netherlands hasn't been a part of Germany since 1648, i wish whoever edited that a very bad day

Germany is not a language... it is a country... Just fyi.

Me:"Italian is very difficult to learn!" *Second language on the easiest to learn..

My biggest flex that i fluently speak russian and kazakh, can understand turk and slavic languages and have a intermadiate level in english. I just decided born in Kazakhstan.

Japanese:2200 hours to learn. Anime lovers: *nervously sweats* Edit:Should I edit the full comment or its fine ? Write your opinion.

Hi guys i might sound crazy but i think Ikea lied to us. They arent swedish.They are danish. Because most ikea shops say "hej!" Which is apparently hello in swedish but its not its hello in danish and hello in swedish is "haliå!"

Me : tries to learn Chinese language. Also me: after 3 months.. okay I give up 😭

Teachers : French is one of the most difficult language to learn. Chinese : What did you say ?

0:25 Language: Dutch Flag: Germany 0:50 Language: "Germany" Flag: Germany Better start with learning the names of the languages.. Learning a little bit of geography might help, as well..

shoutout to the person who had to learn all these languages so we can know this

When Japanese takes 2200 hours to learn. Weebs: Are you challenging me?

Props to the dude that learned every language just to count how many hours it takes to learn.

Fun fact: everyone are waiting for they're mother language to show up Extra: i wonder Why Persian wasn't there

Bulgarian is not as easy as you think🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬

I speak English 🇬🇧 Parlo Italiano 🇮🇹 Je parle Français 🇫🇷 بتكلم العربية اللبنانية 🇱🇧! Languages That I want to learn: All the languages of the world 🌍!

One of them says “Dutch” and has a German flag and then one of them says “Germany” with a German flag. What?

Remember, learning a second language is always faster than forgetting your first one.

In Ukrainian language we actually don't have word "Zdrastuyte", at least I hear it first time lol. Actually the right is "Dobry den'" or "Pryvit"

Me: just started to learn korean “Korean 2200 hours” This is going to be hard... very hard.

Honestly, it varies from person to person about how much time it’s needed to learn a new language. The less similar the language is to the language you know, the harder it is to learn while the more similar it is to the language you know, the easier it is to learn.

In Hungarian, “Szia” is a more proper way to say “hello” than “halló”.

Norwegian greeting is Hei. It's become rather common to say Hallo, but here it would be better to choose Hei.

1:20 Fun fact: In Tagalog(Philippines), "Kamusta" is actually translated as "How are you". We don't have a direct translation for hello, but we actually use "Hi" or "Hello" since English is our second language anyways.

There are so many mistakes in this... I want to cry...

Any language will be easy to learn if u are passionate bout the language

Why did you take German flag for Dutch language?

I like how that "Dutch" has the German flag shown even though it's supposed to be The Netherlands' language

"It takes 580 hours to learn Italian" Now it takes 2 Maneskin albums and you're done

You forgot to add the easiest language to learn:Esperanto (150 hours to learn)

The way they put "Dutch" and then the German flag below...It just hurts my German potato heart..

''yeoboseyo'' is used to say hello when we answer the phone. the greeting ''hello'' is said ''annyeong haseyo'' in Korean.

"When Indonesian people learn to Malaysian languages":Needs 3 hours to learn

In India we grow up almost learning 3 languages simultaneously since childhood. Every state has its own mother language. Then to communicate with people who don't understand my mother language, we learn Hindi and English is also important to learn as all our corporates use English for communication purposes.

How is Serbian harder than Georgian (a polisynthethic language isolate that uses a foreign script)?

Chinese don’t take that long to learn to speak and understand. It’s the writing that takes long. Understanding actually goes really fast for most

As for the Russian one, isn't "zdravstvuyte" formal? I was expecting "privyet"

Fun fact: Everyone is looking for their native language Edit:294 likes,MOMMY IM FAMOUS

There is no word "Zdrastuyte" in Ukrainian

Bro did you just put the German flag on the Dutch one- :")

Spanish: needs 575 hours to learn Me: on my third year of trying to learn it 👁️👄👁️

chinese: 2400 hours me who is still learning Chinese for 5 years but fails: impossible..

Fun fact: in dutch you put the german flag maybe u got confused with the belg flag or maybe u should've put the nederlands flag in

Me learning Japanese: "I'm not learning you anymore."

I'm kinda amazed that Urdu is significantly tougher than Hindi considering that both are essentially the same language with just the writing system and some vocabulary being different.

Timestamps for people searching for a certain language/languages: (if you didn’t read the description, take note that the number of hours for each language in this comparison isn’t specific so you might take more or less hours than the said time) 0:09 Spanish (575 hrs./23 days) 0:12 Italian (580 hrs./24 days) 0:15 French (585 hrs./24 days) 0:17 Dutch (585 hrs./24 days) 0:23 Swedish (590 hrs./24 days) 0:27 Afrikaans (595 hrs./24 days) 0:30 Norwegian (595 hrs./24 days) 0:33 Portugese (600 hrs./25 days) 0:37 Romanian (600 hrs./25 days) 0:41 Danish (600 hrs./25 days) 0:44 German (759 hrs./31 days) 0:48 Indonesian (900 hrs./37 days) 0:52 Malaysian (920 hrs./38 days) 0:56 Swahili (1000 hrs./41 days) 0:59 Georgian (1100 hrs./45 days) 1:02 Hindi (1200 hrs./50 days) 1:06 Latvian (1260 hrs./52 days) 1:10 Nepali (1280 hrs./53 days) 1:13 Croatian (1300 hrs./54 days) 1:17 Serbian (1300 hrs./54 days) 1:21 Tagalog (1400 hrs./58 days) 1:24 Ukranian (1420 hrs./58 days) 1:28 Urdu (1450 hrs./60 days) 1:32 Xhosa (1490 hrs./62 days) 1:35 Finnish (1500 hrs./62 days) 1:39 Vietnamese (1500 hrs./62 days) 1:42 Estonian (1530 hrs./63 days) 1:45 Mongolian (1550 hrs./64 days) 1:50 Hungarian (1640 hrs./68 days) 1:54 Thai (1690 hrs./70 days) 1:57 Icelandic (1700 hrs./70 days) 2:01 Czech (1800 hrs./75 days) 2:04 Albanian (1810 hrs./75 days) 2:08 Greek (1870 hrs./77 days) 2:11 Turkish (1900 hrs./79 days) 2:15 Russian (1940 hrs./80 days) 2:19 Polish (2000 hrs./83 days) 2:23 Korean (2200 hrs./91 days) 2:26 Japanese (2200 hrs./91 days) 2:30 Arabic (2300 hrs./95 days) 2:33 Chinese Language = Mandarin (2400 hrs./100 days) 2:37 Chinese Language = Cantonese (2500 hrs./104 days) Hope I could help you! :) For English, it all depends on your current language, how exposed you are to English, etc. And for Esperanto... I’m not really sure... (this is based on what comments from duolingo said) Studying for less than 40 minutes would take 8 months - 1 year to become conversationally fluent. Studying for 40+ minutes - 2 hours could shorten to around 4-6 months, I guess? (please correct me if I’m wrong)

1:32 In Ukraine we don’t say zdrastuyte(it’s a Russian greeting,originally in Ukrainian never was that but we have ours) we say Dobryi den’ or Vitayu

Just a thing "Yeoboseyo" (korean) is only used when picking up calls and "annyong hasseyo" Is used for general speaking..

Hindi:1200 hrs to learn.. Me who is Indian but speaks different language at home: learned hindi in 10 days.😂😂 And in india there so many different regions so I speak different language at home...

Non-american watching this video : "Oh wow I can speak Indonesian, Malaysian, Spanish fluently and a bit of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese"

Actually, the Korean greeting is not yeoboseyo, it is annyunghaseyo😢

When you know how to speak Mandarin and Cantonese at the same time: "Aced it"

Actually, we don't say nihao here in Cantonese-speaking places, we say "NeiHou". I don't know if this word is well-known in English-speaking countries, but I just want to share this little knowledge with you, only to help spread our own Cantonese culture. 😊😊

Korean hello isn't "yoeboseyo" It's used to answer phone calls just like we say hello when we answer a phone call in English. Hello in Korean is "Annyeonghaseyo" 안녕하세요

You put Georgian here but not Armenian or Persian?

So, the hardest languages would take about 7 years to learn, studying 1 hour a day. Not too bad.

After 400 hours learning German, I can't even say "Hi nice to meet you"

The difficulty of languages depends also on the degree you want to master them and the degree to which a linguistic standard is existing at all. English has an estimated vocabulary of 500,000 words (who counted them?) whereas standard Vietnamese (which also uses the latin alphabet) is estimated to have 40,000 words and has very little grammar. But lots of heavy accents and a very fine tuned pronunciation make it almost impossible to explore for outsiders. Same with Portuguese: Portuguese has no standard pronunciation. In my native language German there are in "good German" few basic words but the whole language is built with many derivations, suffixes, affixes and combined words allowing you to instantly understand new words (try this in French!). German has a tricky grammar giving you a bad start whereas in English and to a lesser degree also in French the difficulties come later. The good thing about German is that is has a standard (Hochdeutsch = high German) which is widely accepted and further pushing accents aside. And one thing about Norwegian: There are two of them, the standards Nynorsk and Bokmål. To live there you have to understand them all and are constantly in a continuum of accents that get more Swedish the closer you get to the Swedish border.