🇵🇱 → 🇨🇿

How easy is Czech for Polish speakers?

Going from Polish to Czech (Čeština) has a composite linguistic distance of 18% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

18% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

78%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

89%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

29%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship

100%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Sample sentences side-by-side

How everyday sentences look in both languages:

🇵🇱 Polish

Miasto ma stary rynek i wiele zabytkowych budynków.

🇨🇿 Czech

Město má starý náměstí a mnoho historických budov.

🇵🇱 Polish

Student uczy się języka i czyta wiele książek każdego dnia.

🇨🇿 Czech

Student se učí jazyk a čte mnoho knih každý den.

Curated cognates between Polish and Czech

Word pairs that share a common etymological root — instantly recognisable across both languages:

water

voda ↔ woda
house

dům ↔ dom
milk

mléko ↔ mleko
brother

bratr ↔ brat

Other easy languages for Polish speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Polish:

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