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How easy is Thai for Dutch speakers?

Going from Dutch to Thai (ΰΈ ΰΈ²ΰΈ©ΰΈ²ΰΉ„ΰΈ—ΰΈ’) has a composite linguistic distance of 80% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

80% distance FSI Cat III β€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
67%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
17%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Latin β†’ Thai

Genealogical kinship
0%

Indo-European ↔ Tai-Kadai

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