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How easy is Korean for Bulgarian speakers?

Going from Bulgarian to Korean (한국어) has a composite linguistic distance of 93% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

93% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

22%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Cyrillic → Hangul

Genealogical kinship

Indo-European ↔ Koreanic

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Other easy languages for Bulgarian speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Bulgarian:

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Macedonian

5% distance
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Russian

38% distance
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Ukrainian

39% distance
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Croatian/Serbian

40% distance
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Slovenian

40% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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