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How easy is Arabic (MSA) for Spanish speakers?

Going from Spanish to Arabic (MSA) (العربية) has a composite linguistic distance of 79% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

79% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

69%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

13%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Arabic

Genealogical kinship

Indo-European ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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Other easy languages for Spanish speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Spanish:

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Galician

10% distance
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Portuguese

12% distance
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Italian

14% distance
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Occitan

14% distance
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Catalan

15% distance

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