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How easy is Japanese for Croatian/Serbian speakers?

Going from Croatian/Serbian to Japanese (日本語) has a composite linguistic distance of 85% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

85% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
46%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
20%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Latin/Cyrillic → Japanese

Genealogical kinship
0%

Indo-European ↔ Japonic

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