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How easy is Polish for Irish speakers?

Going from Irish to Polish (Polski) has a composite linguistic distance of 65% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

65% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

47%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

14%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Irish speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Irish:

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Welsh

43% distance
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German

61% distance
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Icelandic

61% distance
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Faroese

61% distance
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Slovak

61% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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