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How easy is German for Slovak speakers?

Going from Slovak to German (Deutsch) has a composite linguistic distance of 59% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

59% distance FSI Cat II — ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
15%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
66%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
13%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship
40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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