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Languages to learn if you speak English

All 95 candidate languages ranked from linguistically closest to most distant for native or fluent English speakers.

#1 🇳🇱 Dutch

#2 🇿🇦 Afrikaans

#3 🇩🇪 German

#4 🇱🇺 Luxembourgish

#5 🇸🇪 Swedish

#6 🇩🇰 Danish

#7 🇳🇴 Norwegian

#8 🇮🇸 Icelandic

#9 🇭🇹 Haitian Creole

#10 🇫🇴 Faroese

#11 🇫🇷 French

#12 🇪🇸 Spanish

#13 🇵🇹 Portuguese

#14 🇮🇹 Italian

#15 🇪🇸 Galician

#16 🏴 Catalan

#17 🇫🇷 Occitan

#18 🇮🇹 Sicilian

#19 🇮🇹 Sardinian

#20 🇮🇱 Yiddish

#21 🇦🇱 Albanian

#22 🇷🇴 Romanian

#23 🇲🇹 Maltese

#24 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh

#25 🇻🇳 Vietnamese

#26 🇱🇻 Latvian

#27 🇱🇹 Lithuanian

#28 🇸🇰 Slovak

#29 🇸🇮 Slovenian

#30 🇬🇷 Greek

#31 🇮🇪 Irish

#32 🇮🇩 Indonesian

#33 🇵🇭 Tagalog

#34 🇵🇱 Polish

#35 🇨🇿 Czech

#36 🇰🇪 Swahili

#37 🇧🇬 Bulgarian

#38 🇲🇰 Macedonian

#39 🇮🇷 Persian (Farsi)

#40 🇹🇯 Tajik

#41 🇿🇦 Zulu

#42 🇳🇬 Yoruba

#43 🇵🇾 Guarani

#44 🏳️ Kurdish

#45 🇲🇾 Malay

#46 🇭🇷 Croatian/Serbian

#47 🇦🇲 Armenian

#48 🇧🇩 Bengali

#49 🇹🇭 Thai

#50 🇮🇩 Javanese

#51 🇮🇳 Hindi

#52 🇵🇰 Urdu

#53 🇪🇪 Estonian

#54 🇳🇴 Northern Sami

#55 🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese

#56 🇭🇰 Cantonese

#57 🇰🇭 Khmer

#58 🇱🇦 Lao

#59 🇮🇳 Punjabi

#60 🇭🇺 Hungarian

#61 🇳🇬 Hausa

#62 🇺🇦 Ukrainian

#63 🇧🇾 Belarusian

#64 🇦🇫 Pashto

#65 🇮🇳 Gujarati

#66 🇱🇰 Sinhala

#67 🏳️ Basque

#68 🇷🇺 Russian

#69 🇳🇵 Nepali

#70 🇵🇪 Quechua

#71 🇫🇮 Finnish

#72 🇹🇷 Turkish

#73 🇮🇱 Hebrew

#74 🇦🇿 Azerbaijani

#75 🇹🇲 Turkmen

#76 🇸🇴 Somali

#77 🇺🇿 Uzbek

#78 🇮🇳 Marathi

#79 🇲🇲 Burmese

#80 🇪🇷 Tigrinya

#81 🇸🇦 Arabic (MSA)

#82 🇪🇹 Amharic

#83 🇨🇳 Tibetan

#84 🇯🇵 Japanese

#85 🇰🇷 Korean

#86 🇰🇿 Kazakh

#87 🇬🇪 Georgian

#88 🇰🇬 Kyrgyz

#89 🇷🇺 Tatar

#90 🇨🇳 Uyghur

#91 🇲🇳 Mongolian

#92 🇮🇳 Kannada

#93 🇮🇳 Malayalam

#94 🇮🇳 Tamil

#95 🇮🇳 Telugu

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