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How easy is Russian for Afrikaans speakers?

Going from Afrikaans to Russian (Русский) has a composite linguistic distance of 80% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

80% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

29%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

17%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Afrikaans speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Afrikaans:

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Dutch

9% distance
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English

27% distance
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German

32% distance
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Luxembourgish

33% distance
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Yiddish

40% distance

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