Foreign Language Difficulty Scale

[Philip Robinson]

I was just there recently and, as I recall, Spanish, French, and 
German were Level I (easiest for Anglophones), Russian was Level II 
(medium), and Mandarin and several other East Asian languages and 
Arabic were Level III (most difficult).

Phil Robinson
Cornell University

At 05:24 PM 3/19/2008, Klawa Thresher wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>I wanted to check the Defense Department's language difficulty scale (to
>compare Spanish, French, German, Russian and Chinese), and have tried
>googling it, but when I have tried to go to various links from a couple
>of sites, they have been unavailable.  Does someone have more ready
>access to this information.
>
>Thank you,
>Klawa Thresher
>
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