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How easy is Spanish for Arabic (MSA) speakers?

Going from Arabic (MSA) to Spanish (Español) has a composite linguistic distance of 79% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

79% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours
Lexical similarity
8%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
69%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
13%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Arabic → Latin

Genealogical kinship
0%

Afro-Asiatic ↔ Indo-European

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