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How easy is Greek for Italian speakers?

Going from Italian to Greek (Ελληνικά) has a composite linguistic distance of 66% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

66% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

16%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

81%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Greek

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Italian speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Italian:

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Portuguese

12% distance
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Spanish

14% distance
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Occitan

14% distance
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French

15% distance
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Catalan

15% distance

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