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How easy is Korean for Irish speakers?

Going from Irish to Korean (한국어) has a composite linguistic distance of 90% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

90% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
36%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Latin → Hangul

Genealogical kinship
0%

Indo-European ↔ Koreanic

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