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How easy is German for Russian speakers?

Going from Russian to German (Deutsch) has a composite linguistic distance of 71% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

71% distance FSI Cat II — ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
66%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
13%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Cyrillic → Latin

Genealogical kinship
40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Sample sentences side-by-side

How everyday sentences look in both languages:

🇷🇺 Russian
Die Universität hat ein internationales Programm für Wissenschaft und Technologie.
🇩🇪 German
Университет имеет международную программу по науке и технологии.
🇷🇺 Russian
Der Winter ist lang und kalt, aber der Frühling bringt Wärme und Licht.
🇩🇪 German
Зима долгая и холодная, но весна приносит тепло и свет.

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