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How easy is English for Swedish speakers?

Going from Swedish to English (English) has a composite linguistic distance of 42% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

42% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours
Lexical similarity
45%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
72%

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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Sample sentences side-by-side

How everyday sentences look in both languages:

🇸🇪 Swedish
The summer night is short and the light lasts until midnight.
🇬🇧 English
Sommarnatten är kort och ljuset varar till midnatt.
🇸🇪 Swedish
My mother reads books and my father writes letters.
🇬🇧 English
Min mor läser böcker och min far skriver brev.

Curated cognates between Swedish and English

Word pairs that share a common etymological root — instantly recognisable across both languages:

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