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Society | April 15, 2006, Saturday // 00:00
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The Bulgarian language appears to cause no big problems for the native speakers of American English, Hamilton Spectator reports.
The US State Department, which has to train diplomats serving around the world, ranks languages by their difficulty for native speakers of American English. The department's Foreign Service Institute classified languages in four categories, in ascending order of difficulty.
Bulgarian language was ranked in the second category along with Dari, German, Greek, Hindi, Hausa, Indonesian, Malay, Urdu.
Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish are in category 1.
Category 3 includes Amharic, Armenian, Azeri, Bengali, Burmese, Czech, Finnish, Georgian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Khmer, Lao, Nepali, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhala, Tagalog, Thai, Tamil, Turkish, Uzbek, Vietnamese.
Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean are in the last fourth category.
The US State Department, which has to train diplomats serving around the world, ranks languages by their difficulty for native speakers of American English. The department's Foreign Service Institute classified languages in four categories, in ascending order of difficulty.
Bulgarian language was ranked in the second category along with Dari, German, Greek, Hindi, Hausa, Indonesian, Malay, Urdu.
Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish are in category 1.
Category 3 includes Amharic, Armenian, Azeri, Bengali, Burmese, Czech, Finnish, Georgian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Khmer, Lao, Nepali, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhala, Tagalog, Thai, Tamil, Turkish, Uzbek, Vietnamese.
Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean are in the last fourth category.
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