🇨🇿 → 🇷🇺
How easy is Russian for Czech speakers?
Going from Czech to Russian (Русский) has a composite linguistic distance of 44% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
44% distance
FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
40%
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Grammatical distance
98%
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Phonological similarity
40%
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Writing-system match
0%
Latin → Cyrillic
Genealogical kinship
70%
Indo-European ↔ Indo-European
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Sample sentences side-by-side
How everyday sentences look in both languages:
🇨🇿 Czech
Новый закон поддерживает развитие науки и культуры.
🇷🇺 Russian
Nový zákon podporuje rozvoj vědy a kultury.
🇨🇿 Czech
Город находится в центре страны и имеет старый университет.
🇷🇺 Russian
Město se nachází ve středu země a má starou univerzitu.
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