German or French: Which Language Is Easier to Learn?

To draw a more coherent conclusion: the subjects learned a new language the fastest when presented with Category 1 languages, which were the ones most similar to English. This category includes Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Afrikaans, Danish, and Norwegian. It took participants between 23 and 30 weeks of practice to learn proficient language skills in this category, which consisted of 550 to 750 classroom hours in total.