π¬π§ β π΅π±
How easy is Polish for English speakers?
Going from English to Polish (Polski) has a composite linguistic distance of 69% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
69% distance
FSI Cat III β ~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 β Latin
Genealogical kinship
40%
Indo-European β Indo-European
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Sample sentences side-by-side
How everyday sentences look in both languages:
π¬π§ English
The music concert at the national theatre attracted thousands of visitors.
π΅π± Polish
Koncert muzyczny w teatrze narodowym przyciΔ
gnΔ
Ε tysiΔ
ce goΕci.
π¬π§ English
The student reads philosophy and literature at the university.
π΅π± Polish
Student czyta filozofiΔ i literaturΔ na uniwersytecie.
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