Apparently if you know Czech, you basically know Slovakian. Are there any other languages that allow you to basically know other languages so you can pretend to be some multi-lingual genius when in reality they're just really similar anyway?
That's hilarious to me that you could only learn like two languages, but understand like 5 and say you learned all of them and sound really smart.
I think Danish and Norwegian are another group that basically understand each other. Maybe Italian and Spanish?
Danish, Norweigen, and Swedish are basically just a single dialectal continuem.
Mean while, most """dialects""" of Arabic are basically unintelligable to each other.
Angel Wright
Italian- Romanian Dutch- Afrikaans Irish- Scots Gaelic Russian- Polish Finnish- Estonian (spanish- portuguese)
Lincoln Scott
Urdu and Hindi (other than the scripts) are 70% the same language. Plus Punjabi is similar to both.
All the Latin languages are quite similar.
Joseph Mitchell
Serbo-Croatian You will understand bosnian, serbian, croatian, montenegrin and some slovenian I think.
Hunter Nelson
>Russian- Polish this is bullshit. that's like saying english and german can understand each other.
Matthew Allen
>Apparently if you know Czech, you basically know Slovakian.
You can understand it for the most part, you definitely can not speak it, and im not sure how this would work with non native, because Slovaks and Czechs are constatnly exposed to other language.
I have watched cartoons as a kid exclusively in Czech, played MMORPG on Czech server for 6 years and listened to lot of Czech music. I cant speak the language, i mix too many Slovak words in when i try.
Jeremiah Young
Portugese and Polish
Dominic Miller
South Korean - North Korean
Jason Robinson
>I cant speak the language, i mix too many Slovak words in when i try.
it's the same case for danish/swedish/norwegian. I can understand swedish and norwegian perfectly but I really can't speak them at all since I mix them up due to how similar they are.
Jaxon Ortiz
yeah, that one was a stretch
Luis Gray
well that's sort of lame. i think knowing danish and understanding swedish and norwegian is pretty cool though.
Anthony Allen
I think you'd need some exposure to those languages first though. I have some Danish friends that say can't really understand Swedish.
Ryan Gutierrez
does standard arabic exist so that they would understand each other if they spoke "properly"?
Ryan Morales
Standard Arabic is formal and mainly used in writting or official setting. Spoken Arabic differs widely.
Landon Johnson
its pretty much impossible at first but i think understanding danish would be pretty easy after living there for a few weeks
norwegians are pretty easy to speak to though
Hudson Peterson
I heard that Hungarians in Slovakia who learn Slovak later in life actually can't really understand Czech, dunno how true it is tho
Parker Barnes
I'd say that one in ten people in Sweden understand me when I speak Norwegian. And that number is even lower in Denmark. And I don't speak any weird dialect, either. I've lived in Oslo my entire life.
Ethan Lopez
vocraoo?
Cooper Myers
>Irish- Scots Gaelic no
Blake Cook
Galician is basically portuguese that sounds like spanish
Cooper Evans
You mean Korea and Best Korea
Michael Diaz
most people don't understand swedish or norwegian here, but it's really easy if you put some effort into it. I learned it easily by watching tv shows in the languages and learning which words are different from my own language.
Alexander Harris
Why is it that Danes understand "standard" swedish better than scanian? Scanian is literally a Danish dialect that got swedenized.
You have to spell out the differences because I can't hear them.
Jose Williams
Polish sounds for us like a very brutal and ancient Russian or Ukrainian, I mean when you can't understand it, because now I speak it
David Taylor
Different accent mostly. Sometimes g/h's difference, but not always
Nicholas Phillips
>Scanian is literally a Danish dialect that got swedenized. this is exactly why, it's swedish pronounciations of words with stod like in danish. It's like an entirely different language to me because it sounds so strange.
Kevin Stewart
If you understand English, you can somewhat speak American
Caleb Reyes
There are languages groups, for example spanish belongs to the romance language group along with portuguese, french and italian.
Josiah Moore
I still find it weird desu senpai
Scanian should be the dialect that bridge Danish and Swedish, but instead it's the least understood by both swedes and danes..
Carson Hernandez
Whelp, i'm in love
Zachary Cooper
just compare how they are speaking
ukrainian accent: youtube.com/watch?v=bNTXecbIEHY - journalist speaks Ukrainian, he (Loik) speaks Russian. It's a normal thing for Ukraine
Many things vary more widely than we tend to think. For example I overheard a South American once and it took me really long to even figure out they were even talking Spanish.
Michael Murphy
>journalist Literally this.
Joseph Smith
Russian accent sound manlier but that could just be due to the people [in the video] speaking it.
Daniel Price
>try to learn these languages >speak french with italian pronunciation >speak spanish with italian pronunciation >mix words from the 4 languages
A brazilian does not even need to speak spanish to understand what a spanish speaker means.
Portuguese to spanish - Circa 90% of intelligibility on standard language. Portuguese to italian - Circa 60%. Portuguese to french - Circe 40%.
Also, English, as a language influenced a lot by latin and french, have about 20% to 30% of intelligibility in written form.
Brody Davis
This isn't bullshit. Once you understand how to read you understand it just perfectly.
>and ancient False. Maybe it sounds ancient for you, for me it sounds as it is - as the most mutated Slavic language.
Nicholas James
>Finnish- Estonian No
Juan Bell
Especially giving the fact that Oxxxymiron is a Jew who spent most of his youth in Germany and London.
Samuel Hall
As a Spanish speaker i can read Portuguese and Italian, and have a pretty solid idea what Im reading. In conversation, I have a harder time conversing with Italians, but with a lot of gesturing I can defend myself. I find it easier to hold a conversation with a Portuguese speaker.
