Language difficulty categories

[Christopher TESSONE]

Check out:

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~eagerchm/tutorial/research.html

Also, more information and some criticism of the chart at:

http://www.serve.com/shea/hardlang.htm

The polemical aspects of that page are not really worth reading, but it
gives some more detailed numbers than the first site.

Cheers,
Chris

On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 12:51  PM, Donald Loewen wrote:

> Greetings.
> Can anyone point me to the State Department's (Foreign Service
> Institute's
> ?) ranking of languages according to complexity/time required to reach
> various competency levels? (either WWW or print source)  I've searched
> through a series of books and sites and haven't come up with it
> yet.  Thanks in advance for your suggestions,
> Don Loewen
> Binghamton University
>
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Christopher A. Tessone
Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois
BA Student, Russian and Mathematics
http://www.polyglut.net/

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