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How easy is Korean for Swedish speakers?

Going from Swedish to Korean (한국어) has a composite linguistic distance of 92% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

92% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

28%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Hangul

Genealogical kinship

Indo-European ↔ Koreanic

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Other easy languages for Swedish speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Swedish:

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Norwegian

9% distance
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Danish

13% distance
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Icelandic

34% distance
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Dutch

35% distance
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Faroese

35% distance

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