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How easy is Latvian for Russian speakers?

Going from Russian to Latvian (LatvieΕ‘u) has a composite linguistic distance of 60% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

60% distance FSI Cat III β€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
20%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
92%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
20%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

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Genealogical kinship
40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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