Home  ›  From Ukrainian  ›  to English
🇺🇦 → 🇬🇧

How easy is English for Ukrainian speakers?

Going from Ukrainian to English (English) has a composite linguistic distance of 79% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

79% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours
Lexical similarity
10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
39%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Cyrillic → Latin

Genealogical kinship
40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

Open the interactive comparison →

Sample sentences side-by-side

How everyday sentences look in both languages:

🇺🇦 Ukrainian
The international festival of music and art brings people together.
🇬🇧 English
Міжнародний фестиваль музики та мистецтва об'єднує людей.
🇺🇦 Ukrainian
The student studies mathematics and physics at the university.
🇬🇧 English
Студент вивчає математику та фізику в університеті.

Other easy languages for Ukrainian speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Ukrainian:

Think you can tell them apart?

A quick 3-question check between Ukrainian and English. No signup.