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How easy is Telugu for German speakers?

Going from German to Telugu (తెలుగు) has a composite linguistic distance of 88% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

88% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

45%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Telugu

Genealogical kinship

Indo-European ↔ Dravidian

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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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