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How easy is English for Hungarian speakers?

Going from Hungarian to English (English) has a composite linguistic distance of 78% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

78% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
45%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship
0%

Uralic ↔ Indo-European

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Sample sentences side-by-side

How everyday sentences look in both languages:

🇭🇺 Hungarian
The national museum and university are in the center of the modern city.
🇬🇧 English
A nemzeti múzeum és az egyetem a modern város közepén találhatók.
🇭🇺 Hungarian
Science and technology are transforming every aspect of modern life.
🇬🇧 English
A tudomány és a technológia az élet minden területét átalakítja.

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