🇬🇧 → 🇨🇿
How easy is Czech for English speakers?
Going from English to Czech (Čeština) has a composite linguistic distance of 69% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
69% distance
FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
10%
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Grammatical distance
39%
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:
🇬🇧 English
The museum has a famous collection of classical art and sculpture.
🇨🇿 Czech
Muzeum má slavnou sbírku klasického umění a sochařství.
🇬🇧 English
Modern technology transforms communication and education every year.
🇨🇿 Czech
Moderní technologie každoročně transformuje komunikaci a vzdělávání.
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