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How easy is English for Croatian/Serbian speakers?

Going from Croatian/Serbian to English (English) has a composite linguistic distance of 75% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

75% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) โ€” 600โ€“750 hours
Lexical similarity
10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
39%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
40%

Latin/Cyrillic โ†’ Latin

Genealogical kinship
40%

Indo-European โ†” Indo-European

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Sample sentences side-by-side

How everyday sentences look in both languages:

๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท Croatian/Serbian
The student studies mathematics and physics at the university.
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง English
Student studira matematiku i fiziku na sveuฤiliลกtu.
๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท Croatian/Serbian
Modern technology and science are changing the world every year.
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง English
Moderna tehnologija i znanost mijenjaju svijet svake godine.

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