Key Largo resident and professional chef Edwin Hammond Meredith has had a talent for cooking since childhood. While studying the culinary arts abroad, Edwin Hammond Meredith gained fluency in Japanese, a language ranked by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) as one of the most difficult for native English speakers.
The FSI developed a five-category language difficulty ranking scale to estimate the number of study hours required for a native English speaker to achieve proficiency in a foreign language. The ranking is based on several factors, including grammar, similarities in script, and the frequency of cognates, which are words that have a similar meaning and pronunciation in both languages. Based on these areas, the easiest languages for native English speakers to learn include German, Norwegian, Dutch, and Latin-based languages such as French, Spanish, and Italian. On the other end of the spectrum are languages with character-based writing systems, such as Mandarin and Japanese, and languages from distinct language families, such as Finnish and Hungarian.
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