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How easy is Arabic (MSA) for Russian speakers?

Going from Russian to Arabic (MSA) (Ψ§Ω„ΨΉΨ±Ψ¨ΩŠΨ©) has a composite linguistic distance of 83% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

83% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) β€” ~2,200 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
58%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
13%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Cyrillic β†’ Arabic

Genealogical kinship
0%

Indo-European ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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