What are the hardest languages to learn for an English-speaking student?

This infographic compares the learning difficulty of many languages depending on the minimal time to achieve language proficiency for native English speakers. If languages like Spanish, French or Dutch should need about 600 hours to reach that level, Hindi, Russian, Thai or Greek would need about the double time to get there, and Arabic, Chinese, Korean and Japanese would double agin this time with 2,200 hours of class hours.

Where is French spoken?

This infographic shows a map of the world that highlights the places where French language is spoken. If French is nowadays mostly spoken in Europe, but also in Canada and Africa, a lot of less known places are spotted on the map.

Languages families map

This map shows language families distribution around the globe with number of speakers (primary and secondary) for the top ten languages, and dying languages distribution.