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How easy is Bengali for German speakers?

Going from German to Bengali (বাংলা) has a composite linguistic distance of 78% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

78% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

42%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Bengali

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for German speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from German:

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Luxembourgish

9% distance
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Dutch

22% distance
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Yiddish

26% distance
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Afrikaans

32% distance
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English

34% distance

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