Opinions on the Storylearning "Language Difficulty Guide" ?

Hi all, This is the first time I've come across this difficulty ranking and was wondering how accurate other language learners find it to be? Especially keen to hear from people who have learnt multiple of these languages (as I've only been learning Mandarin so I don't have anything else to compare it's difficulty to) I've often seen the FSI ranking of language difficulty and thought it would be nice to see a difficulty ranking that breaks things down a bit further as most languages in the FSI rankings end up in Category IV, which seems to be a catch-all for languages that are dissimilar to English but not EXTREMELY difficult. I'm not too sure about the accuracy of the Storylearning ranking though. As a Mandarin learner, I feel like learning Mandarin takes ages because of the lack of cognates, but the grammar is so straightforward that putting it in Category 9 above Arabic seems ludicrous. I've also heard Russian grammar is a nightmare but all the Slavic languages are in tier 3 & 4. I suspect these rankings way exaggerate the impact of a "difficult script" on language learning. Keen to hear your thoughts/experiences :) submitted by /u/Embarrassed_Ad_5884 [link] [comments]

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