A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to Learn Foreign Languages

Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by laurentoget on Thursday November 30, 2017 @11:51PM (#15822008)

the likelihood an american foreign service employee would ever need to use a celtic language is not very high. similar probably holds for basque which i hear is not the easiest to learn either.

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Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by dordoka on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:55AM (#15823500)

I'm basque and I can confirm that basque is quite more complicated than english.

In fact, if you check the map, there's a gray spot on the north of Spain/South of France. That's Euskadi (Basque Country area).

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Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by julenx on Friday December 01, 2017 @09:34AM (#15824011)

The region where Basque is spoken is not gray because of its difficulty, but because there's no data [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7dith2/language_di...

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Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by dordoka on Friday December 01, 2017 @12:30PM (#15825485)

Yes, poorly explained on my comment (not native english speaker, obviously). I just wanted to point out the region where basque is spoken. Thanks for the info.

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Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by laurentoget on Friday December 01, 2017 @12:04PM (#15825217)

i assume that is because the FSI does not teach Basque, though i suspect the CIA may have some basque experts for surveillance purpose.

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