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February 26, 2026
New map of Europe causes a storm of comments online: The whole Balkans in red, Serbia at number 44
The TikTok profile The Viral Archive, known for explaining viral infographics and interesting data, has published a video that has attracted great attention in our region. In it, the author comments on a map of Europe showing the estimated time it takes for a native English speaker to learn the official languages of European countries.
TL;DR
- A TikTok video displaying a map of estimated learning times for European languages for native English speakers has gone viral.
- Balkan languages such as Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Macedonian, and Bulgarian are categorized as requiring about 44 weeks of intensive study.
- These languages, along with Polish, Czech, and Greek, are placed in the 'red' category.
- Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian are in the most difficult 'black' category, requiring the most learning time.
- The difficulty of Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian is attributed to their belonging to the Uralic language family, unrelated to Indo-European languages like English.
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