🇩🇪 → 🇮🇹
How easy is Italian for German speakers?
Going from German to Italian (Italiano) has a composite linguistic distance of 58% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
58% distance
FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours
Lexical similarity
10%
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Grammatical distance
81%
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Phonological similarity
0%
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Writing-system match
100%
Latin → Latin
Genealogical kinship
40%
Indo-European ↔ Indo-European
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Sample sentences side-by-side
How everyday sentences look in both languages:
🇩🇪 German
Die Universität hat ein Programm für Musik und Kultur.
🇮🇹 Italian
L'università ha un programma per la musica e la cultura.
🇩🇪 German
Das Museum präsentiert eine wichtige Kollektion moderner Kunst.
🇮🇹 Italian
Il museo presenta un'importante collezione di arte moderna.
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