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How easy is Mandarin Chinese for Korean speakers?

Going from Korean to Mandarin Chinese (普通话) has a composite linguistic distance of 74% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

74% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours
Lexical similarity
30%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
52%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
20%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Hangul → Chinese

Genealogical kinship
0%

Koreanic ↔ Sino-Tibetan

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