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How easy is Catalan for Romanian speakers?

Going from Romanian to Catalan (Català) has a composite linguistic distance of 28% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

28% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours

Lexical similarity

73%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

80%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

25%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship

70%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Romanian speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Romanian:

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Italian

29% distance
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French

30% distance
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Spanish

31% distance
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Portuguese

31% distance
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Galician

46% distance

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