Foreign Language Difficulty Scale

[Martin Votruba]

The DLI came up with this in the 1970s (Bulgarian in group 2, other 
Slavic langauges in 3):

GROUP I - Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, French, Haitian Creole, Italian, 
Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish

GROUP II - Bulgarian, Dari, Farsi (Persian), German, (Modern) Greek, 
Hindi-Urdu, Indonesian, Malay

GROUP III - Amharic, Bengali, Burmese, Czech, Finnish, (Modern) 
Hebrew, Hungarian, Khmer (Cambodian), Lao, Nepali, Pilipino 
(Tagalog), Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhala, Thai, Tamil, 
Turkish, Vietnamese

GROUP IV - Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean


Martin

votruba "at" pitt "dot" edu

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