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How easy is Spanish for Catalan speakers?

Going from Catalan to Spanish (Español) has a composite linguistic distance of 15% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

15% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours
Lexical similarity
85%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
100%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship
100%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Sample sentences side-by-side

How everyday sentences look in both languages:

🏴 Catalan
El mercado central vende frutas, verduras y productos locales.
🇪🇸 Spanish
El mercat central ven fruites, verdures i productes locals.
🏴 Catalan
La lengua es la expresión más directa de la cultura de un pueblo.
🇪🇸 Spanish
La llengua és l'expressió més directa de la cultura d'un poble.

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