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How easy is Croatian/Serbian for Danish speakers?

Going from Danish to Croatian/Serbian (Hrvatski) has a composite linguistic distance of 76% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

76% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
33%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
40%

Latin → Latin/Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship
40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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