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How easy is Dutch for Croatian/Serbian speakers?

Going from Croatian/Serbian to Dutch (Nederlands) has a composite linguistic distance of 76% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

76% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

33%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

40%

Latin/Cyrillic → Latin

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Croatian/Serbian speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Croatian/Serbian:

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Slovenian

20% distance
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Czech

34% distance
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Russian

37% distance
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Polish

37% distance
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Macedonian

38% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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