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How easy is English for Danish speakers?

Going from Danish to English (English) has a composite linguistic distance of 42% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

42% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours
Lexical similarity
45%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
72%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship
70%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Sample sentences side-by-side

How everyday sentences look in both languages:

🇩🇰 Danish
The dog and the cat sleep in the warm house.
🇬🇧 English
Hunden og katten sover i det varme hus.
🇩🇰 Danish
He works in the garden every morning in summer.
🇬🇧 English
Han arbejder i haven hver morgen om sommeren.

Other easy languages for Danish speakers

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