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How easy is German for Irish speakers?

Going from Irish to German (Deutsch) has a composite linguistic distance of 61% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

61% distance FSI Cat II — ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
69%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship
40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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