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How easy is Arabic (MSA) for Czech speakers?

Going from Czech to Arabic (MSA) (العربية) has a composite linguistic distance of 84% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

84% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

56%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

11%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Arabic

Genealogical kinship

Indo-European ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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Other easy languages for Czech speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Czech:

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Slovak

6% distance
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Polish

18% distance
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Croatian/Serbian

34% distance
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Slovenian

40% distance
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Ukrainian

43% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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