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How easy is English for Polish speakers?
Going from Polish to English (English) has a composite linguistic distance of 69% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
69% distance
FSI Cat I (Easiest) โ 600โ750 hours
Lexical similarity
10%
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Grammatical distance
39%
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Phonological similarity
0%
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Writing-system match
100%
Latin โ Latin
Genealogical kinship
40%
Indo-European โ Indo-European
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Sample sentences side-by-side
How everyday sentences look in both languages:
๐ต๐ฑ Polish
The music concert at the national theatre attracted thousands of visitors.
๐ฌ๐ง English
Koncert muzyczny w teatrze narodowym przyciฤ
gnฤ
ล tysiฤ
ce goลci.
๐ต๐ฑ Polish
The student reads philosophy and literature at the university.
๐ฌ๐ง English
Student czyta filozofiฤ i literaturฤ na uniwersytecie.
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