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How easy is Portuguese for Romanian speakers?

Going from Romanian to Portuguese (Português) has a composite linguistic distance of 31% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

31% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours
Lexical similarity
72%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
80%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship
70%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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