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How easy is Dutch for Latvian speakers?

Going from Latvian to Dutch (Nederlands) has a composite linguistic distance of 67% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

67% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

39%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

17%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Latvian speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Latvian:

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Lithuanian

15% distance
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Slovak

50% distance
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Czech

51% distance
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Slovenian

51% distance
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Polish

56% distance

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