🇪🇸 → 🇩🇪
How easy is German for Spanish speakers?
Going from Spanish to German (Deutsch) has a composite linguistic distance of 57% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
57% distance
FSI Cat II — ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
10%
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Grammatical distance
81%
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Phonological similarity
13%
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:
🇪🇸 Spanish
Der Student studiert Philosophie und Geschichte an der Universität.
🇩🇪 German
El estudiante estudia filosofía e historia en la universidad.
🇪🇸 Spanish
Die moderne Technik verändert die Industrie und die Gesellschaft.
🇩🇪 German
La técnica moderna cambia la industria y la sociedad.
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