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How easy is English for Persian (Farsi) speakers?

Going from Persian (Farsi) to English (English) has a composite linguistic distance of 71% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

71% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours
Lexical similarity
10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
72%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Arabic → Latin

Genealogical kinship
40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Sample sentences side-by-side

How everyday sentences look in both languages:

🇮🇷 Persian (Farsi)
The international film festival program includes many famous names.
🇬🇧 English
برنامه جشنواره بین‌المللی فیلم شامل نام‌های مشهور زیادی است.
🇮🇷 Persian (Farsi)
The garden in spring is full of beautiful flowers and green trees.
🇬🇧 English
باغ در بهار پر از گل‌های زیبا و درختان سبز است.

Curated cognates between Persian (Farsi) and English

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

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