🇳🇱 → 🇪🇸
How easy is Spanish for Dutch speakers?
Going from Dutch to Spanish (Español) has a composite linguistic distance of 57% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
57% distance
FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours
Lexical similarity
10%
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Grammatical distance
78%
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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Sample sentences side-by-side
How everyday sentences look in both languages:
🇳🇱 Dutch
De student studeert filosofie en geschiedenis aan de universiteit.
🇪🇸 Spanish
El estudiante estudia filosofía e historia en la universidad.
🇳🇱 Dutch
De moderne technologie verandert de industrie en de samenleving.
🇪🇸 Spanish
La tecnología moderna cambia la industria y la sociedad.
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