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How easy is Ukrainian for English speakers?

Going from English to Ukrainian (Українська) has a composite linguistic distance of 79% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

79% 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
0%

Latin → Cyrillic

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 international festival of music and art brings people together.
🇺🇦 Ukrainian
Міжнародний фестиваль музики та мистецтва об'єднує людей.
🇬🇧 English
The student studies mathematics and physics at the university.
🇺🇦 Ukrainian
Студент вивчає математику та фізику в університеті.

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