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[hollerith]

The chairman of the department of English at my local community college told me that it takes the average student of English as a second language 7 years to get good enough that a native English speaker might want to have a conversation with the student.

[adrianN → hollerith]

It depends on which languages you know. For native English speakers there is for example this ranking of language difficulty

http://web.archive.org/web/20071014005901/http://www.nvtc.go...