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How easy is English for Korean speakers?

Going from Korean to English (English) has a composite linguistic distance of 87% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

87% 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
0%

Hangul โ†’ Latin

Genealogical kinship
0%

Koreanic โ†” Indo-European

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Sample sentences side-by-side

How everyday sentences look in both languages:

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท Korean
The computer program and internet are used in every modern office.
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง English
์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๊ณผ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ํ˜„๋Œ€ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท Korean
Coffee, pizza, and chocolate are popular foods around the world.
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง English
์ปคํ”ผ, ํ”ผ์ž, ์ดˆ์ฝœ๋ฆฟ์€ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ์Œ์‹์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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