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How easy is French for Spanish speakers?

Going from Spanish to French (Français) has a composite linguistic distance of 19% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

19% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours
Lexical similarity
75%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
100%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship
100%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Sample sentences side-by-side

How everyday sentences look in both languages:

🇪🇸 Spanish
La capital del país tiene muchos museos y monumentos históricos.
🇫🇷 French
La capitale du pays a beaucoup de musées et de monuments historiques.
🇪🇸 Spanish
La ciencia moderna transforma la medicina y la tecnología cada año.
🇫🇷 French
La science moderne transforme la médecine et la technologie chaque année.

Curated cognates between Spanish and French

Word pairs that share a common etymological root — instantly recognisable across both languages:

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