Yeah, we understand swedish and danish people, but sometimes it's little bit hard because they're pronouncing words very differently than norwegian.
Joshua White
Serbocroatian, decently, and Slovak, somewhat, as well as the rudiments of Czech, Polish and Russian. Bulgarian? Wouldn't count on it, though many individual words are outright identical.
Jonathan Jenkins
none
Jose King
French speakers owning at least half a brain can easily understand the general meaning of Italian sentences.
Spanish and Portuguese is not as close, but part of it is still understandable.
A significant part of English words with more than 3 syllabs is easily understable in French.
Jayden Sanders
None.
Kayden Lee
>Finnish >no one >tfw
Some words in Estonian are very similar, or the exact same, but then there's a few (or a lot for all I know) boobytraps like >raamat (book in Estonian) >raamattu (bible in Finnish) >piim (milk in Estonian) >piimä (buttermilk, or sour milk, in Finnish)
Liam Butler
>90 to 100%
Frisian, Flemish, afrikaans
>60%
german
>40%
Danish, norwegian, swedish
Nicholas Reed
I can understand memes in Portuguese if pictures are accompanied
Samuel King
>tfw your languages is only relevant because it's a lingua franca HAHAHAHAHA
all dutch can understand afrikaans for at least 80% and german for at least 50%
Brody Kelly
Faroese basically copied Icelandic orthography in the 19th century and therefore I can understand written Icelandic fairly easily. Faroese and Icelandic have developed independently for 1000 years though and therefore it's quite hard to understand spoken Icelandic, but I can understand certain phrases and understand a couple of words in a sentence.
Nathan Collins
Based on my native language : only Occitan and Italian.
I can't understand shit in other romance languages.
As for other languages I speak, well I guess my answer would be biased.
Carson Adams
>piimä
piemel (penis) in dutch
Josiah Nguyen
>flemisch
THATS A FUCKING DUTCH-DIALECT FUCKING KANKERVMBO'ER
Isaac Hall
>Slovene and Slovak Mistaking children with slaves has always made me laugh.
Alexander Bell
They're not the only ones that misunderstand us. The Slovenian word for the direction west is the Croatian word for toilet desu.
Xavier Miller
zelfde geld voor fries en afrikaans diknek
en nederlands is een dialect van duits volgens sommigen
Ryan Murphy
Zakaj greš zahod ? - Zato, ker imam drisko.
Nice one, did not know.
Luis Powell
NIET WAAR KANKERAUTIST AFRIKAANS IS EEN DOCHTERTAAL FRIES IS EEN ZUSTERTAAL
Justin Williams
Spanish, Italian and some words in French.
Joshua James
kven and karelian are for some reason considered their own languages thats totally different
Dominic Reed
>zustertaal
dat woord trek je net uit je reet
daarbij is het enorm subjectief wat wel of niet een taal is
serven en croaten menen een andere taal te spreken sinds de balkanoorlog. Ze kunnen elkaar echter prima verstaan
marokkanen en kuweitsen menen allebei arabisch te spreken maar als ze allebei plat spreken verstaan ze mekaar niet.
Connor Hughes
Spanish and Italian.
Jackson Taylor
Most of the time we understand what people in Quebec try to say. That's about if for foreign languages.
Ethan Torres
none but when reading, I can understand approx 20-30% of Chinese.
hell, some finns struggle to understand my dialect
Oliver Brooks
I can understand Scots Gaelic. They're so similar, the Canadian government used to count them as the same language.
Tyler Sanchez
>trying to understand what foreigners say in their language
Why even bother? Just say "sorry I don't understand you", then walk away
Camden White
none.
Jayden Kelly
Switzergerman - It's a bit different but easier to understand than Plattdeutsch Dutch - I can read it easily, understand maybe 60% spoken language Danish - It's readable with a bit of efford, understand maybe 40% spoken language Swedish / Norwegian - Possible to read, understand swedish easier than norwegian but it's here and there easy sentences
Gabriel Murphy
>tfw we also have flemish and frisian as dialects
Justin Price
>ukrainians
Kevin Walker
Ukrain( i spend in it 12 summers, so I can speac fluently), Belarus(in general) and Polski( about 40%)
Landon Parker
>95%+ Norwegian
>80% Swedish
>40% German
Isaiah Gray
M*cedonian no problem, a good amount of Serbocroat, Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian. Czech, Slovak and Polish generally give me autism but if I try I can understand some of it too.
Nathaniel Ward
Karelian(almost identical to Finnish) Southern Estonian dialects to a lesser extent because they are archaic. Vepsä language of Putins ancestors to an even smaller extent
Not Estonian though it's gibberish.
Asher Garcia
Arabic, and the sprinkles of italian help to make learning it a breeze.
Nolan Sullivan
English:
Nothing
Juan Ross
Interesting. What are the dot lines?
Sebastian Brown
maybe you can understand a little Irish
Jackson Myers
Albanian:None But with my knowledge of English and standard Albanian lingua franca,I can pretty much understand Italian
Justin Brown
Portugese Catalan French on a very basic level Italian is easier than french Romanian a couple of words
Carter Jackson
so polish would be a key language to crack this fuck fest?
Jordan Miller
>what languages can you understand based on your native language? I can understand Danish, Swedish and Faroese quite well with my knowledge of Norwegian.
I also speak German and English, so I can understand a large amount of Dutch.
Cooper Russell
how is Albanian? any similar to Turkish?
just asking cause it's an islamic caliphate
Levi Adams
obligatory nordic can kind of read icelandic german we can kind of make out the words but very cloudy, dutch is less cloudier but harder to translate
Leo Green
Catalan? Aquitinian?
Jacob Wood
This. But exchange >60% with dutch.
Connor Hill
Well even UK it's an Islamic caliphate,yet English isn't a mongre-oh wait.Anyway no, Albanian is an indoEuropean language not close to Turkish at all.In fact not close to any language.
Hunter Morgan
t. Rotterham orphan
Juan Watson
>tfw I speak English, Russian and Armenian I can pretty much talk to anyone in the world
Kevin Russell
I heared that it's easy to make business in Romania as Frenchmen. Is it easier for you to learn their language?
Aaron Cox
>People always forget galician
Jace Reyes
English is my native language and I'd have an easier time understanding French, Spanish, or Italian than Irish. Irish has very little in common with English.
On the other hand, Scots is so close to English that some people consider it a dialect of English and not its own language.
Joseph King
sorry ;_;
Xavier Clark
Isn't Galician so close to Portuguese that, cultural/historical stuff aside, they're basically the same language?
Justin Sanchez
Ive heard that since Scotland was not conquered by the Normies they use more germanic words
Evan Ramirez
I think that's true, yeah.
Also, some people draw distinctions between the Scots language per se, and Scottish English. But the line is fuzzy.
Elijah Williams
>reee he gets offended I'm Turkish fucking thinskins lmfao, that's why I asked
Jaxon Johnson
Finnish I guess. It is closest to American
Sebastian Turner
Also Scotland is one of the last parts of the English-speaking world where at least some speakers regularly use "thou" instead of "you" in familiar speech. But that's mostly the older generations.
"Thou" also sees use in parts of Northern England, like Lancashire.
Gavin Clark
Yes, well spoken Galician sounds like a stereotypical northern portuguese accent
Aaron Parker
Ní dócha go dtuigfeadh sé focal ar bith.
While I have you, is Persian as mutually intelligible with Dari and Tajik as they say? Trying to get a native's perspective.
Oliver Morales
Oh sorry.I thought you were the typical asshead anglo
Dominic Morales
czech and slovak both sound like meme versions of polish however, slovak is easier. To understand russian or ukrainian you need vodka and moonrunes lector.
Nathaniel Price
Galiza é Portugal ;D
Ethan Cruz
Scots, Yola, and Finngalian, but those are Anglic languages and might be thought of as dialects. If you're really finicky, Friscian can be intelligible
Lucas Walker
Written Portuguese
Caleb Martinez
It seems kind of like the Scots/English thing, really.
Someone speaking Scots and someone speaking English with a heavy Scottish accent sound pretty much the same.
Levi Phillips
I second this
Mason Nelson
This. Literally none.
William Thomas
How about Patwa?
I can't catch more than like 30-40% of it, and that's so optimistic it's almost an exaggeration.
The difference between someone speaking Patwa and one speaking English with a Jamaican accent is a lot bigger than I expected.
Benjamin Myers
Spanish: I can understand Portuguese perfectly. I can have conversations with Italians, but I understand a little bit less than with Portuguese speakers. I can't understand shit in French or Romanian.
Luis Hill
>spanish I understand it pretty well, spoken and written language, but I'd say Castilian is the dialect I understand the most.
>Italian Written language is kind of a mistery, but I can get like 40 or 50% of the spoken language.
>french The opposite of italian: I can get like 40% of the written language, but when they open their mouth I have no idea what's going on. The difference between the written and the spoken language in french is so stupid it makes english reasonable.
>romanian I have a hard time trying to understand this, I can get some words here and there but that's it.
Brandon Thomas
Fucking none
Carson Cooper
Daily reminder that Albanians use the word sister for their mother
Caleb Cox
Albanian word for mother:nënë
Joshua Gonzalez
Isn't you're closest linguistic relative back in eastern Russia where y'all came from?
I know the Finnic languages are related, but they're far off linguistically, just geographically closer.
Jace Johnson
Isolated Indo-European languages are cool
Joseph Green
Good tier - belorussian and ukrainian. Understand almost everything.
Not so good tier - polish and macedonian.
Cooper Lewis
None.
Aiden Brooks
Thanks,but imo the coolest and most unique language is Basque
Josiah Davis
This is true, of the two Anglic languages still in any real use (Yola and Finngalian left out), Scots would be most intelligiblish to Friscians. Lowland Scots take from the northern Anglo-Saxon earldoms like Northumbria, which weren't conquered whole places like Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia, Sussex, and Kent were. That's also where those fucker treasonous Earls that sides with the Normans came from, funny how they stayed the more Anglo-Saxon of them.
Bentley Martinez
>understand standard Arabic >understand ancient hebrew It was quite a surprise, I started watching some movie in Hebrew but ended up not need any subs. Don't know if it works the other way around though, any Jews to confirm ?
Also speaking Arabic doesn't help at all to understand Farsi, though it makes learning how to write the alphabet easier.
>French speakers owning at least half a brain can easily understand the general meaning of Italian sentences. I do manage to get some WORDS, but I'm still far from understanding a whole sentence.
>The difference between the written and the spoken language in french is so stupid it makes english reasonable. true
Blake Barnes
They're crazy. It's looking back into Europe before us Indo-Europeans came.
Pretty crazy, they might've been of the same ethnic family responsible for Stonehenge.
Julian Bell
That's because they're both Semitic. Do we have any surviving Phoenician texts? Could you understand those?
I wonder how close the non-Cannanite languages are?
Carson Morris
Farsi is completely unrelated to Arabic, hilariously, English and French are closer if anything.
Joshua Thomas
Argentinean Spanish and South Brazilian Portuguese
Ethan Rogers
there's no real reason for understanding us more than you would understand any other spanish speaker.
except for chileans, nobody can understand chileans.
Ryan Nelson
Can't seem to find proper understandable Khanty or Mansi (allegedly the ethnics that are the closest to us) audio, so I can't really determine that. Finnish and Estonian are a long shot, we understand nothing from them.
Eli Reed
Understanding Castellano is a pain in the ass tho. Their phonetics is closer to Greek than Italian.
Andrew Rogers
Most scandis online overstate our abilities to understand each other. Many words are completely different from each other so you can't possibly understand most of what another person is saying. I can comprehend danish about as good as I can german, which is practically nothing.
Jace Cook
As a georgian speaker none other language. As an english speaker I understand some french words which these languages share. As a french speaker a bit of italian and spanish is comprehensible. As a russian speaker I do understand some ukrainian not much, but almost none of the rest of slavbros.
Evan Brown
German. Sometimes Danish. Eh.
Charles Long
what about in written form though?
I couldn't possibly distinguish a single word a frenchman says. but if I read french I understand pretty much the entire meaning of a phrase even if there's a word here and there that I don't understand.
Gavin Morris
well, it's easier, especially norwegian you could probably understand almost everything if the vocabulary is on an easy level.