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How easy is Russian for Persian (Farsi) speakers?

Going from Persian (Farsi) to Russian (ะ ัƒััะบะธะน) has a composite linguistic distance of 79% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

79% distance FSI Cat III โ€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
24%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
33%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Arabic โ†’ Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship
40%

Indo-European โ†” Indo-European

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